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Victorian Naturalist

Field Naturalists Club of Victoria · Australia

ISSN0042-5184

SJR Q4✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals.

📊 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

0.128

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.186

Total Worksi

206

Total Citationsi

449

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

The Victorian Naturalist is a bimonthly scientific journal covering natural history, especially of Australia. It is published by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.

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General Information

Country / RegionAustralia

Primary Language—

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 6 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications206

Publisher OrgField Naturalists Club of Victoria

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

thinkchecksubmit.org

4/11 · 36%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

0042-5184

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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

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2020

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)Q4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Wildlife Ecology and ConservationSpecies Distribution and Climate ChangeAmphibian and Reptile BiologyAvian ecology and behaviorPlant and animal studiesEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesAustralian Indigenous Culture and HistoryFish Ecology and Management StudiesBotany, Ecology, and Taxonomy StudiesRangeland and Wildlife Management

Frequently asked questions about Victorian Naturalist

Is Victorian Naturalist a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Victorian Naturalist: it is indexed in 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 Victorian Naturalist?

Victorian Naturalist is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.128.

Is Victorian Naturalist indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Victorian Naturalist is indexed in Scopus.