PARKS
Last updated ISSN 0960-233X
PARKS is published by World Commission on Protected Areas in environmental science. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in PARKS concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Key facts
| Publisher | World Commission on Protected Areas |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0960-233X, 2411-2119 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 442 |
| Publishing since | 1896 |
| Journal website | parksjournal.com/ |
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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