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Conservation and Society

Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications · India

ISSN0972-4923eISSN0975-3133

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.833

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.944

Total Worksi

645

Total Citationsi

17,216

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.30

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Environmental Studies; Ecology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

General Information

Country / RegionIndia

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

FrequencyBiannual

StatusActive

Total Publications645

Publisher OrgMedknow

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-SA

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

PorticoCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0972-4923 / 0975-3133

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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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?

Portico, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

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

1.6k

2018

1.1k

2019

734

2020

274

2021

418

2022

155

2023

2024

2025

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.

EcologyQ1

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ1

Nature and Landscape ConservationQ1

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Environmental Studies

Scopus Categories

Nature and Landscape ConservationManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsEcology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementWildlife Ecology and ConservationGeographies of human-animal interactionsAgriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentRangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Frequently asked questions about Conservation and Society

Is Conservation and Society a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Conservation and Society: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Conservation and Society?

Conservation and Society 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 1.30.

Is Conservation and Society indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Conservation and Society is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Conservation and Society?