Journal profile · Environmental Science-Ecology
Check List
ISSN 1809-127X · Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental · Bulgaria
Check List: CAS Zone 4 · Biology (2025 upgraded edition); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 144 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2017 (Volume 13, Issue 3): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Check List is published by Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental and is in Zone 4 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, together about 31.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Check List is a peer-reviewed online journal, devoted to publishing biodiversity data related to species’ geographic distributions. Thus, our primary mission is to overcome the so-called Wallacean shortfall (Lomolino 2004) and to improve our knowledge on how life is distributed on the planet. These data are essential for studies on biogeography and provide a baseline for the conservation of biodiversity. The first step to undertaking effective conservation action is to maintain records of the distributions of species.Therefore, the journal was created from the need to publish basic data on species' distributions of any taxon in a timely and open manner, which are often neglected by traditional journals.Check List is a peer-reviewed online journal, and will consider for publication:Notes on Geographic Distribution, reporting new records of one or more species while providing a complete overview of the known distribution of the treated taxa. We no longer publish papers based on literature or database compilations, nor articles in the "Annotated list of species" category.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Environmental Science-Ecology
Editor-in-chief Marcus GuidotiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 78, United States 18, Canada 7, Germany 5, India 4 (144 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Amphibian and Reptile BiologyEnvironmental Science14.3%
- Species Distribution and Climate ChangeEnvironmental Science9.3%
- Fish biology, ecology, and behaviorEnvironmental Science8.2%
- Plant and animal studiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences8.1%
- Animal and Plant Science EducationPsychology6.2%
- Fish Biology and Ecology StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.4%
- Bat Biology and Ecology StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.1%
- Wildlife Ecology and ConservationEnvironmental Science3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Biology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Biology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Biodiversity Conservation | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Zoology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Biology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Biology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Biodiversity Conservation | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Zoology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.28LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.57LetPub ·
- h-index
- 40OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 599OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.5OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 16.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 96.52%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 141LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,632 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 97 | 97 | 6 |
| 2025 | 144 | 144 | 55 |
| 2024 | 126 | 126 | 124 |
| 2023 | 107 | 107 | 205 |
| 2022 | 128 | 128 | 358 |
| 2021 | 180 | 180 | 522 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Unspecified peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 250 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | EUR 150 | — | — | |
| LetPub | EUR 300 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | EUR 350 / EUR 1,000 / EUR 3,000 / EUR 5,000 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use Use of AI
Authors must be transparent about the use of Artificial Intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and other large language models in the manuscript preparation, and disclose details of how the AI tool was used within the "Materials and Methods" section.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship/Contributorship
Some journals are integrated with Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT), in order to recognise individual author input within a publication, thereby ensuring professional and ethical conduct, while avoiding authorship disputes, gift / ghost authorship and similar pressing issues in academic publishing. During manuscript submission, the submitting author is strongly recommended to specify a contributo…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Open data publishing and sharingPensoft encourages open data publication and sharing, in accordance with Panton’s Principles and Pensoft’s Data Publishing Policies and Guidelines for Biodiversity Data.Data can be published in various ways, such as data files or packages supplementary to a research article, or hosted in and linked to data repositories.Datasets should be deposited in an appropriate,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright License and Copyright Agreement
In submitting the manuscript to any of Pensoft’s journals, authors certify that: They are authorized by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements. The work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review or thesis); it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; its publication has been approved by all author(s)…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review
This journal uses a single-blind peer review process. This means that the names of reviewers are hidden from the authors (the author does not know the identity of the reviewer, but the reviewer knows the identity of the author). Notwithstanding that, the reviewers are encouraged to disclose their identities, if they wish to do so. Each article is reviewed by at least two independent experts, with …
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental
- Country or region
- Bulgaria
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1809-127X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13, Issue 3 (2017)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Check List
What CAS zone is Check List in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Check List is in Zone 4 of Biology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Biodiversity Conservation / Zoology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Biology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at Check List?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Check List based?
Of the 144 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Brazil (78), United States (18) and Canada (7). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Check List?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Check List is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Check List open access, and what is the APC?
Check List is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .