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BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS

UNIV KANSAS, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM & BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CTR · US · Est. 2004

ISSN1546-9735eISSN1546-9735

✓ WOS ESCI

/ 100

Established

PubScope credibility score from verifiable indexing & ethics signals

Score Breakdown

◆ WoS ESCI56

✓ Corroboration (1 more)+6

⚠ Withdrawn from DOAJ-15

Total47

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Removed from DOAJ (2021-06-21). DOAJ's stated reason: Problems with website. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

137

Total Citationsi

5,289

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.32

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

This electronic journal focuses on the emerging field of biodiversity informatics--the creation, integration, analysis, and visualization of information regarding biological diversity. The journal encourages submissions in any area of the biodiversity informatics enterprise. We distinguish between several types of submissions: full manuscripts, training modules, biodiversity diagnoses, software and protocol descriptions, and book/media reviews. Book/media reviews are shorter papers (typically not exceeding ten manuscript pages) that assess and evaluate a new biodiversity informatics application or publication; training modules present and describe didactic materials; and biodiversity diagnoses present analyses of completeness of biodiversity information for taxa or regions. Software and protocol descriptions and book/media reviews are generally shorter. Full manuscripts may still include details on any particular biodiversity informatics tool, but the scope of the paper should be larger than that single application.

General Information

Country / RegionUS

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2004

Frequencycontinuous

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications137

Publisher OrgUniversity of Kansas

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Submission Info

Peer Reviewpeer-reviewed

Review Time—

Acceptance Rate—

OA LicenseCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

Portico

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/12 · 83%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

UNIV KANSAS, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM & BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CTR

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1546-9735 / 1546-9735

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS

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Peer review process documented?

peer-reviewed

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

Yes

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

Portico

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

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

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

101

2018

2019

297

2020

2021

2022

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.

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Biodiversity Conservation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Species Distribution and Climate ChangeEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesWildlife Ecology and ConservationEnvironmental DNA in Biodiversity StudiesGenomics and Phylogenetic StudiesGenetic diversity and population structureResearch Data Management PracticesPlant and animal studiesData Analysis with RBiomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Frequently asked questions about BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS

Is BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS a predatory journal?

BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Problems with website" (2021-06-21). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS?

BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS 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 1.32.

Is BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS is indexed in Web of Science.