Northeastern Naturalist

Northeastern Naturalist is published by Humboldt Field Research Institute and is in Zone 4 of Environmental Science & Ecology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, together about 25.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Ecology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Northeastern Naturalist covers all aspects of the natural history sciences of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine organisms and the environments of the northeastern portion of North America, roughly bounded from Virginia to Missouri, north to Minnesota and Nunavut, east to Newfoundland, and south back to Virginia. Manuscripts based on field studies outside of this region that provide information on species within this region may be considered at the Editor’s discretion. The journal welcomes manuscripts based on observations and research focused on the biology of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine organisms and communities as it relates to their life histories and their function within, use of, and adaptation to the environment and the habitats in which they are found, as well as on the ecology and conservation of species and habitats. Such studies may encompass measurements, surveys, and/or experiments in the field, under lab conditions, or utilizing museum and herbarium specimens. Subject areas include, but are not limited to, anatomy, behavior, biogeography, biology, conservation, evolution, ecology, genetics, parasitology, physiology, population biology, and taxonomy. Strict lab, modeling, and simulation studies on natural history aspects of the region, without any field component, will be considered for publication as long as the research has direct and clear significance to field naturalists and the manuscript discusses these implications.

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Research area (LetPub): Ecology

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

0.41LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.34LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

26LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

48OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

522OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.93OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

54LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

18–36 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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Publisher

Humboldt Field Research Institute

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1092-6194

Official links

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