Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy

Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy is published by Taylor & Francis. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are International Environmental Law and Policies, Environmental law and policy and Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses, together about 43.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Global biodiversity is under unprecedented pressure, as climate change, habitat degradation, unsustainable harvesting, and the relentless pace of human development continue to impact and threaten the conservation status of many species of fauna and flora. Since the mid-Twentieth Century, an array of international treaties have emerged to confront the challenges facing global biodiversity, supported by a constellation of regional nature conservation instruments and a vast array of increasingly sophisticated national legislation. Cumulatively, this plethora of protective regimes continues to inspire novel legal and policy approaches to nature conservation. Since 1998, the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy has been the leading peer-reviewed forum devoted to the study of the legal approaches to biodiversity protection. The Journal welcomes submissions addressing aspects of the following broad themes: • international and regional wildlife treaty regimes in conserving species; • evaluation of national legislation and regulations focusing on wildlife conservation and management, especially from the Global South and jurisdictions that have been traditionally under-represented in the literature; • animal law and animal welfare; • theoretical, ethical, historical and cross-disciplinary approaches to biodiversity regulation; • the impact of judicial decisions at the national, regional and international levels; • the interface of legal and political institutions with other sectors in society that have a substantive impact on the management and conservation of species and ecosystems. The Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 's readership includes conservation professionals; members of academic institutions specializing in wildlife law, ecology, and wildlife management; animal law; government agencies; non-governmental conservation organizations; students in conservation and law-related disciplines; and interested members of the general public. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double anonymized peer review.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Law

Editor-in-chief Richard CaddellPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

ScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

CAB AbstractsGeoRefPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, CABI, EBSCOhost, Elsevier BV, Gale, Ovid, William S. Hein & Company, Inc.

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.

Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.2LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.2Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.24LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.24Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.73LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.73Publisher website · 2026-11-01

h-index

31OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

133OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.78OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Volume

Downloads per year (publisher)

47,000Publisher website · 2026-11-01

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.

Acceptance to publication

21 daysPublisher website · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1388-0292

Electronic ISSN

1548-1476

Latest issue on the website

Volume 29, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website