ISSN 0006-8241 printed version
ISSN 3078-8056 online version

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Basic information
• Index sources
• Copyright
• Peer review

African Biodiversity & Conservation is published by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and aims to disseminate, to a wide audience, knowledge, information and innovative approaches that promote and enhance the wise use and management of biodiversity in order to sustain the systems and species that support and benefit the people of Africa.

Bothalia (the original name for the journal) has been published since 1922, and historically it focused on plant taxonomy and ecological research publications. In 2013 the journal expanded its scope to include other elements of biodiversity in line with the mandate of SANBI; the journal was published through AOSIS, including an online version; and the journal was renamed Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation. Since 2020 SANBI has once again taken over the management of the journal, and is using the Open Journal Systems as the platform for manuscript management and online publication. The journal's title is now African Biodiversity & Conservation (ABC for short), although the prefix has been retained until such time as it can be updated in relevant indexing databases.

Scope

A. The research must be directly on African issues

B. The research must be relevant to biodiversity

C. Facilitate uptake into conservation policy and management

+ D. The research must be well conducted and noteworthy

Submissions from authors anywhere in Africa as well as those based outside of Africa are invited if the content relates to African biodiversity.

The Journal generally publishes one issue a year and articles are added when ready for publication. Occasionally a 2nd issue will be published.

The Journal’s abbreviated key title is Bothalia (Online).

• SciELO SA
• SCOPUS
• Thomson Reuters Web of Science Core Collection, Science Citation Index Expanded, SCIE (previously known as ISI)
• Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, Level 1
• Thomson Reuters Web of Science Other Coverage, BIOSIS Previews
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• EBSCO Host
• GALE, CENGAGE Learning
• Google Scholar
• ProQuest

The author(s) retain copyright on work published by SANBI unless specified otherwise.

Author(s) of work published by SANBI are required to grant SANBI the unlimited rights to publish the definitive work in any format, language and medium, for any lawful purpose.

SANBI requires journal authors to publish their work in open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Read more here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

The authors retain the non–exclusive right to do anything they wish with the published article(s), provided attribution is given to the applicable journal with details of the original publication, as set out in the official citation of the article published in the journal. The retained right specifically includes the right to post the article on the authors’ or their institution’s websites or in institutional repositories.

All manuscripts undergo a double–blinded review process.