Journal History

2021 The inaugural issue was released. Conservation was published as a quarterly journal.
2024 Conservation was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1).
Conservation was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier).
2025 Conservation received its first CiteScore (3.2), ranked 73/231 (Q2) in “Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)”.
Conservation
received its first Impact Factor (1.9), ranked 31/73 (Q2) in “Biodiversity Conservation”.
2026 Conservation established the following sections:
  • Plant Conservation;
  • Forest Conservation;
  • Animal Conservation;
  • Marine Conservation;
  • Conservation Genetics and Genomics;
  • Insect Conservation;
  • Heritage Conservation and Restoration.
Conservation received its 2025 CiteScore (3.5), ranked 84/253 (Q2) in “Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)”.
Conservation received its 2025 Impact Factor (1.9), ranked 39/77 (Q3) in “Biodiversity Conservation”.

Editor-in-Chief

2021–present Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Antoni Margalida

Section Editor-in-Chief

2026–present Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ji-Dong Gu for the section on Heritage Conservation and Restoration.
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