Pachyderm

Aims & Scope

Pachyderm is a bi-annual international peer-reviewed journal that deals primarily with matters related to African elephant and African and Asian rhino conservation and management in the wild.

It is also a platform for dissemination of information concerning the activities of the African Elephant, the African Rhino, and the Asian Rhino Specialist Groups of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC).

Views expressed in Pachyderm are those of the individual authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of IUCN, the Species Survival Commission or any of the three Specialist Groups responsible for producing Pachyderm (namely the African Elephant Specialist Group, the African Rhino Specialist Group and the Asian Rhino Specialist Group).

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

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Subjects & Keywords

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

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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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.

• Lessons from 15 years of human-elephant conflict mitigation: Management considerations involving biological, physical and governance issues in Africa

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Richard

• Options for the control of elephants in conflict with people

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Richard

• Studying forest elephants by direct observation: preliminary results from the Dzanga clearing, Central African Republic

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Andrea, J.

• The ecological role of elephants in Africa

  Citation: 32

  Authors: David

• Changes in elephant numbers in major savanna populations in eastern and southern Africa

  Citation: 29

  Authors: J., Richard, G., Iain, Holly, John, Chris

• Indirect methods for counting elephants in forest

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Richard

• Elephant reintroductions to small fenced reserves in South Africa

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Marion, Rob, Richard, Brian

• Community-based methods to reduce crop loss to elephants: experiments in the communal lands of Zimbabwe

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Ferrel, Guy

• New maps representing the historical and recent distribution of the African species of rhinoceros: Diceros bicornis, Ceratotherium simum and Ceratotherium cottoni

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Kees, Pierre-Olivier

• A nationwide survey of crop-raiding by elephants and other species in Gabon

  Citation: 23

  Authors: Sally