Wildlife Society Bulletin

Aims & Scope

The Wildlife Society Bulletin is a journal for wildlife practitioners that effectively integrates cutting edge science with management and conservation, and also covers important policy issues, particularly those that focus on the integration of science and policy.

Wildlife Society Bulletin includes articles on contemporary wildlife management and conservation, education, administration, law enforcement, and review articles on the philosophy and history of wildlife management and conservation.

This includes: Reports on practices designed to achieve wildlife management or conservation goals.

Presentation of new techniques or evaluation of techniques for studying or managing wildlife.

Retrospective analyses of wildlife management and conservation programs, including the reasons for success or failure.

Analyses or reports of wildlife policies, regulations, education, administration, law enforcement.

Review articles on the philosophy and history of wildlife management and conservation. as well as other pertinent topics that are deemed more appropriate for the Wildlife Society Bulletin than for The Journal of Wildlife Management.

Book reviews that focus on applied research, policy or wildlife management and conservation.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Environmental Science, 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.

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.

• Great Plains ecosystems: past, present, and future

  Citation: 374

  Authors: Fred B., Fritz L., Wayne R.

• Calculating landscape surface area from digital elevation models

  Citation: 320

  Authors: Jeff S.

• A Comparison of Noninvasive Techniques to Survey Carnivore Communities in Northeastern North America

  Citation: 239

  Authors: MATTHEW E., ROLAND W., JUSTINA C., SCOTT D., DANIEL A., JASON R.

• An Assessment of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wildlife Research

  Citation: 215

  Authors: GEORGE PIERCE, LEONARD G., H. FRANKLIN

• Estimating Snow Leopard Population Abundance Using Photography and Capture–Recapture Techniques

  Citation: 193

  Authors: RODNEY M., JERRY D., RINCHEN, DON O.

• Fire and Restoration of Sagebrush Ecosystems

  Citation: 184

  Authors: WILLIAM L.

• Mechanisms of Thermoregulation and Water Balance in Desert Ungulates

  Citation: 177

  Authors: JAMES W., PAUL R., STEVEN S., JACK C.

• Using GPS technology and GIS cluster analyses to estimate kill rates in wolf—ungulate ecosystems

  Citation: 159

  Authors: HÃ¥kan, Barbara, Petter, Henrik, Hans C.

• Using Automated Digital Recording Systems as Effective Tools for the Monitoring of Birds and Amphibians

  Citation: 158

  Authors: MIGUEL A., LUIS J.

• Infrared-triggered cameras for detecting wildlife: an evaluation and review

  Citation: 144

  Authors: Don E., Christine C., David C., Sandy A.