Biological Invasions
Last updated ISSN 1387-3547
Biological Invasions is published by Springer Science+Business Media in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,690.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Biological Invasions concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1387-3547, 1573-1464 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,690 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,440 |
| Publishing since | 1999 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/10530 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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