Biodiversity Conservation: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Global Change Biology	83
2	Biological Conservation	40
3	Conservation Biology	34
4	Diversity-Basel	33
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	33
6	People and Nature	30
-	Ecography	30
8	Conservation Letters	27
-	Diversity and Distributions	27
10	Global Ecology and Conservation	25
11	Biodiversity and Conservation	24
-	Biological Invasions	24
13	Conservation Science and Practice	22
-	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine	22
15	Urban Ecosystems	21
-	Plants People Planet	21
-	Journal for Nature Conservation	21
18	Neobiota	18
19	Conservation Physiology	17
20	Animal Conservation	16
-	Endangered Species Research	16
22	Oryx	13
-	Paleobiology	13
-	Environmental Conservation	13
-	Biodiversity Data Journal	13
26	Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation	12
-	Polar Biology	12
-	Nature Conservation-Bulgaria	12
-	Animal Biotelemetry	12
-	Conservation Genetics	12
31	Landscape and Ecological Engineering	11
-	Bioinvasions Records	11
-	Food Webs	11
34	Marine Biodiversity	9
-	Systematics and Biodiversity	9
-	Bird Conservation International	9
-	Human Dimensions of Wildlife	9
-	Management of Biological Invasions	9
-	Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments	9
40	Tropical Conservation Science	8
41	Animal Biodiversity and Conservation	7
-	Journal of Natural History	7
-	Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad	7
-	Avian Conservation and Ecology	7
-	Biota Neotropica	7
46	Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management	6
-	Southeastern Naturalist	6
48	Northeastern Naturalist	5
-	Western North American Naturalist	5
-	American Museum Novitates	5

-	Caribbean Journal of Science	5
52	American Midland Naturalist	4
-	Southwestern Naturalist	4
54	eco.mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research	2