Journal of Biogeography

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Biogeography publishes research at the intersection of biology and geography that is scientifically important and of broad general interest.

We seek papers describing patterns and revealing mechanisms that shape biodiversity, through time, throughout the planet, from the deep past into the future, and from local to global scales.

Diverse approaches are encouraged—including ecological, evolutionary, genomic, geographic, empirical, theoretical—considering any aspect of biogeography, from molecules to ecosystems and from microbes to plants and megafauna.

Through this broad and inclusive scope, we aim for papers in Journal of Biogeography to address understudied, vexing, and urgent questions and to advance basic understanding of the origins, distributions, and fates of life on Earth.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.6
2024	3.40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	2573

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	2323

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.438

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	183

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Predicting species distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: a test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar

  Citation: 2415

  Authors: Richard G., Christopher J., Miguel, A.

• Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures

  Citation: 2268

  Authors: J., U., V., K., M. C., M., F.

• Special Paper: A Global Biome Model Based on Plant Physiology and Dominance, Soil Properties and Climate

  Citation: 1717

  Authors: I. Colin, Wolfgang, Sandy P., Rik, Robert A., Allen M.

• The distance decay of similarity in biogeography and ecology

  Citation: 1475

  Authors: Jeffrey C., Peter S.

• Maps of Pleistocene sea levels in Southeast Asia: shorelines, river systems and time durations

  Citation: 1444

  Authors: Harold K.

• Five (or so) challenges for species distribution modelling

  Citation: 1429

  Authors: Miguel B., Antoine

• Making better M<scp>axent</scp> models of species distributions: complexity, overfitting and evaluation

  Citation: 1374

  Authors: Aleksandar, Robert P.

• Selecting thresholds for the prediction of species occurrence with presence‐only data

  Citation: 1209

  Authors: Canran, Matt, Graeme

• Scale and species richness: towards a general, hierarchical theory of species diversity

  Citation: 1160

  Authors: Robert J., Katherine J., Richard

• Biological Determinants of Species Diversity

  Citation: 1097

  Authors: Avi, Mark V.

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