Journal profile · HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Conservar Patrimonio
ISSN 1646-043X · eISSN 2182-9942 · Associação Profissional de Conservadores - Restauradores de Portugal · Portugal
Conservar Patrimonio: CAS Zone 4 · Arts (2025 upgraded edition); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 34 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Conservar Patrimonio is published by Associação Profissional de Conservadores - Restauradores de Portugal and is in Zone 4 of Arts in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Conservation Techniques and Studies, Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis and Building materials and conservation, together about 46.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Archeology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Articles in Press are accepted, peer reviewed articles that are not yet assigned to issues, but are citable using DOI:Author(s), Title of article, Conservar Património (year of online), DOIWhen the final article is assigned to an issue the Article in Press version will be removed. Note that the process of copyediting, typesetting and review of the resulting proof may lead to differences between the in Press version and the final version.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Editor-in-chief Elin FigueiredoPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Portugal 18, Spain 4, United States 2, Italy 2, Germany 1 (33 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Conservation Techniques and StudiesArts and Humanities19.3%
- Cultural Heritage Materials AnalysisArts and Humanities14.5%
- Building materials and conservationEarth and Planetary Sciences12.4%
- Cultural Heritage Management and PreservationArts and Humanities11%
- 3D Surveying and Cultural HeritageEarth and Planetary Sciences4.5%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.5%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering4.5%
- Historical Art and Architecture StudiesArts and Humanities4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Arts Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Arts Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Arts | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | 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
Indexing the journal's website claims
OtherPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 0.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.22LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.65LetPub ·
- h-index
- 13OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 20OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.22OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.25%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 7LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 554 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 44 | 44 | 3 |
| 2025 | 34 | 34 | 8 |
| 2024 | 32 | 32 | 13 |
| 2023 | 41 | 41 | 52 |
| 2022 | 18 | 18 | 11 |
| 2021 | 36 | 36 | 26 |
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
- Single anonymous 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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)
What to prepare9 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 150 words
- Keywords
- ≤ 6
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- Templates
- Word
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 2
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted6
- articlesArticles, for the main contributions. The papers may present conservation treatments done with the support of other fields of knowledge, heritage studies not di…Length not stated
- interventionsInterventions, for contributions reporting on conservation interventions without the support of laboratory studies or othersLength not stated
- newsNews, for the presentation, more or less detailed, of projects and ongoing investigationsLength not stated
- notesNotes, for contributions similar to those included in articles and interventions, but smaller in sizeLength not stated
- opinionsOpinions, for personal but relevant opinions on different conservation aspects and for reports on relevant occurrences or reviews of published materials. Letter…Length not stated
- otherOtherLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Self-archiving
- Data availability Data availability Statement
Data availability statement optional Model summary
Authors who wish to publish data availability statements can do so by adding a statement after Acknowledgments section and before the References section. Provide a heading “Data availability statement” with a formatting similar to acknowledgments. The statement can be very simple, e.g. The datasets generated during the current study are available in the [NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO D…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Originality requirement Model summary
The papers submitted for publication must be original, i.e. they should not have been previously published, nor submitted or pending publication elsewhere.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Model summary
The journal and papers are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License which may be consulted in http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
Self-archiving of the published version without any restriction Model summary
The journal allows self-archiving of the published version without any restriction.
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
- Associação Profissional de Conservadores - Restauradores de Portugal
- Country or region
- Portugal
- Language
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
- ISSN
- 1646-043X
- Electronic ISSN
- 2182-9942
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Conservar Patrimonio
What CAS zone is Conservar Patrimonio in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Conservar Patrimonio is in Zone 4 of Arts, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Humanities, Multidisciplinary. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Arts. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
How long does peer review take at Conservar Patrimonio?
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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Conservar Patrimonio?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 150 words; Keywords: ≤ 6; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; Templates: Word; Suggested reviewers: Required, 2; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Conservar Patrimonio based?
Of the 33 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Portugal (18), Spain (4) and United States (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Conservar Patrimonio?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Conservar Patrimonio is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Conservar Patrimonio open access, and what is the APC?
Conservar Patrimonio is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
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: .