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Tropical Conservation Science

SAGE Publications Inc. · United States · Est. 2008

ISSN1940-0829eISSN1940-0829

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2024-05-14). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is not open access. 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 (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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.575

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.625

Total Worksi

907

Total Citationsi

20,099

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.40

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Nature and Landscape Conservation.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2008

Annual Volume~ 24 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications907

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

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Submission Info

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

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SAGE Publications Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1940-0829 / 1940-0829

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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?

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

1.1k

2019

707

2020

476

2021

269

2022

103

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.

EcologyQ2

Nature and Landscape ConservationQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Biodiversity Conservation

Scopus Categories

Nature and Landscape ConservationEcology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Wildlife Ecology and ConservationEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementSpecies Distribution and Climate ChangePlant and animal studiesPrimate Behavior and EcologyWildlife-Road Interactions and ConservationAmphibian and Reptile BiologyRangeland Management and Livestock EcologyAnimal and Plant Science Education

Frequently asked questions about Tropical Conservation Science

Is Tropical Conservation Science a predatory journal?

Tropical Conservation Science was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is not open access" (2024-05-14). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Tropical Conservation Science?

Tropical Conservation Science 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 1.40.

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

Tropical Conservation Science is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Tropical Conservation Science?