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Southwestern Naturalist

Southwestern Association of Naturalists · United States

ISSN0038-4909eISSN1943-6262

SJR Q4✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q4. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.172

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.284

Total Worksi

5,137

Total Citationsi

48,134

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.23

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Language—

1st Year Published—

FrequencyFour No. A Year

StatusActive

Total Publications5,137

Publisher OrgSouthwestern Association of Naturalists

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Southwestern Association of Naturalists

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0038-4909 / 1943-6262

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

776

2019

2020

2021

116

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Biodiversity ConservationEcology

Scopus Categories

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Wildlife Ecology and ConservationRangeland and Wildlife ManagementSpecies Distribution and Climate ChangeBotany, Ecology, and Taxonomy StudiesFish Ecology and Management Studies

Frequently asked questions about Southwestern Naturalist

Is Southwestern Naturalist a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Southwestern Naturalist: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Southwestern Naturalist?

Southwestern Naturalist is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.23.

Is Southwestern Naturalist indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Southwestern Naturalist is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Southwestern Naturalist?