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AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION

SOUTH AFRICAN NATL BIODIVERSITY INST-SANBI · ZA · Est. 2025

ISSN3078-8048eISSN3078-8056

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Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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Total Worksi

Total Citationsi

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.11

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Plant Sciences.

General Information

Country / RegionZA

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2025

Annual Volume~ 12 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications27

Publisher OrgAOSIS

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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

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SOUTH AFRICAN NATL BIODIVERSITY INST-SANBI

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

3078-8048 / 3078-8056

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS

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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

266

2019

2020

182

2021

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.

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Plant Sciences

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Biological Control of Invasive SpeciesPlant Diversity and EvolutionSpecies Distribution and Climate ChangeEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesBotany, Ecology, and Taxonomy StudiesAquatic Ecosystems and BiodiversityAnimal and Plant Science EducationAvian ecology and behaviorWildlife Ecology and ConservationEthnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies

Frequently asked questions about AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION

Is AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION: it is indexed in Web of Science, 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 AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION?

AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION 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 0.11.

Is AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION is indexed in Web of Science.

What is the aims and scope of AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION?