Biological Conservation: impact and ranking
Biological Conservation has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.58 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,063 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 326. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.58 #2,063 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 326 #392 of 18,122
- Citations
- 888k #426 of 18,122
- Works
- 16k 55.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Biological Conservation?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Biological Conservation: 4.58, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Biological Conservation #2,063 of 18,122 journals, in the top 11%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Biological Conservation?
OpenAlex gives Biological Conservation an h-index of 326: 326 of its papers have each been cited at least 326 times. That ranks #392 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Biological Conservation publish?
OpenAlex records 16,157 works in Biological Conservation from 1968 to 2026, cited 888,406 times in all, 55.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #426 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Biological Conservation
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0006-3207
- In OpenAlex
- 1968 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Biological Conservation as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,830.
- OpenAlex record
- S80660208
Journals ranked near Biological Conservation
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Biological Conservation on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,993 | Journal of Virology | 4.68 | 421 |
| 1,994 | Polymer | 4.68 | 342 |
| 2,045 | Aquaculture | 4.61 | 278 |
| 2,073 | PLoS Genetics | 4.57 | 341 |
| 2,074 | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 4.56 | 365 |
| 2,086 | JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 4.55 | 489 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.