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Wildlife Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Nordic Council for Wildlife Research.
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ISSN 0909-6396Verify ISSN ↗1903-220XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nordic Council for Wildlife Research
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 96 / 231 | 58th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 305 / 736 | 58th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 239 / 432 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Wildlife Biology is Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 96 of 231), Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 305 of 736) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 239 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Wildlife Biology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.654, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 69.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,420 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Wildlife Biology is published by Nordic Council for Wildlife Research. Its print ISSN is 0909-6396 and its online ISSN is 1903-220X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Wildlife Biology has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 2.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Wildlife Biology published 108 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 121. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (31%), Germany (7.9%) and United Kingdom (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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