Tropical Conservation Science
Journal Highlights
- Impact Factor: 1.7
- Indexed in key databases, including: Web of Science (Journal Citation Reports), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), SCOPUS, EBSCO, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
- Publication is subject to payment of an article processing charge.
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Tropical Conservation Science (TCS) is a peer reviewed journal which focuses on the conservation of tropical ecosystems. Please see our Aims and Scope for further information.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submission Information
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/trc.
Please review the Submission Guidelines for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.
Useful Links
- Submissions Page
- Contact the Editor: managingeditortcs@gmail.com
Aims and Scope
The main objective of Tropical Conservation Science (TCS) is to bring to light research related to the conservation of tropical ecosystems.
TCS is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal that provides a forum for original state-of-the-art research of broad interest to tropical conservationists. Short turn-around time from submission to publication is an important feature of the journal. Tropical Conservation Science publishes diverse types of papers, including: Review Articles, Research Articles, Conservation in Action, Short Communications and Opinion Articles.
TCS seeks submissions that investigate conservation problems involving, first and foremost, socio-economic, political and industrial drivers of tropical ecosystem loss and degradation. Equally important to the journal is its aim to stimulate the publication of research that maps, tracks, and assesses drivers of tropical/ecosystem conservation. TCS welcomes studies that examine how nature (e.g. natural resources/biodiversity/geodiversity) is impacted/managed/used/valued by people across the tropics. How can conservation science be positively applied to generate solutions, change behaviors and obtain better conservation outcomes? This can include local studies with broader conservation implications, global scale analysis and insights from comparisons including both tropical and temperate zones.
TCS manuscripts typically report on a wide range of topics including taxonomy, ecology, evolution, behavior, parasitology, epidemiology, and population genetics, for both plant and animal communities, as they relate to tropical conservation. TCS also welcomes manuscripts reporting on social and economic issues related to tropical conservation, such as the impacts of and/or on indigenous people, poverty, population growth, ecological footprint, conservation policy, and pertinent scientific, technological, cultural and religious issues. The journal encourages interdisciplinary papers using a wide range of methods, including modeling, molecular biology, epidemiology, ecology and/or evolutionary theory, to analyze, assess and discuss vital tropical conservation issues.
Manuscript Submission
- Submit your manuscript at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/trc
- Please refer to the Submission Guidelines for more information before submitting your manuscript.
- We encourage authors to include photographs and videos of the landscapes, flora and/or fauna they have studied. Photos can be arranged as mosaics that should be treated as figures and credits for the photographs should be provided in the figure legend.
| Dr. Sophie Calmé | Université de Sherbrooke, Canada |
| Dr. Eduardo García Frapolli | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Mexico |
| Dr. Sarah Bologna | Independent Consultant, Co. Cork, Ireland |
| Dr. Patrick Addo-Fordjour | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana |
| Dr. Ellen Andresen | Ecosystem and Sustainability Research, UNAM, Mexico |
| Dr. Norberto Asensio | University of the Basque Country, Spain |
| Dr. Renee Bellinger | U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Hawai'i |
| Dr. Claudia Benham | The University of Queensland, Australia |
| Dr. Júlio César Bicca-Marques | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Dr. Sarah Boyle | Rhodes College, USA |
| Dr. Erin Buchholtz | US Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center, USA |
| Dr. Adriano Garcia Chiarello | University of São Paolo, Brazil |
| Dr. Kenneth Clarke | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo | Stanford University, USA |
| Dr. Hope M. Draheim | USFWS OLE National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory, USA |
| Dr. Christine Dranzoa | Makerere University, Uganda |
| Dr. Juan Manuel Dupuy | Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan, A.C., Mexico |
| Dr. Thaise Emilio | University of Campinas, Brazil |
| Dr. Paul Garber | University of Illinois-Urbana, USA |
| Dr. Holly Gibbs | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Dr. Angela Guerrero | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Dr. Alice Hughes | School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, China |
| Dr. Chen Jin | Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens, China |
| Prof. Beth A. Kaplin | University of Rwanda, Rwanda |
| Dr. Waseem Razzaq Khan | Department of Forestry Science, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia |
| Dr. Inza Kone | L'Université Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire |
| Dr. Martin Kowaleski | Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Argentina |
| Dr. Joanna Lambert | University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Dr. Andrew Marshall | University of York, UK |
| Meredith Martin | North Carolina State University in Raleigh, USA |
| Dr. Fernanda Michalski | Universidade Federal do Amapa, Brazil |
| Dr. Salvador Montiel | CINVESTAV-Mérida, Mexico |
| Dr. Mariana Morais Vidal | Universidad de Alicante, Spain |
| Dr. Mariana Munguía-Carrara | Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO ), Mexico |
| Dr. Eduardo Naranjo | El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico |
| Dr. Patrick Omeja | Makerere University, Uganda |
| Dr. N. Parthasarathy | Pondicherry University, India |
| Dr. Johanne Pelletier | Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, USA |
| Dr. Fan Peng-Fei | Sun Yat-sen University, China |
| Dr. Dewi M. Prawiradilaga | Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Centre for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Indonesia |
| Dr. Katherine Renton | Institute of Biology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico |
| Dr. Innocent Rwego | Makerere University, Uganda |
| Dr. Cagan Sekercioglu | Stanford University, USA |
| Dr. Roisin Stanbrook | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Dr. Kathryn Stoner | Texas A & M University, USA |
| Dr. Jatna Supriatna | University of Indonesia, Indonesia |
| Dr. Weston Testo | University of Vermont, USA |
| Dr. Nicolas Urbina | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Columbia |
| Dr. Kevina Vulinec | Delaware State University, USA |
| Dr. Darren Norris | Universidade Federal do Amapa, Brazil |
| Dr. Alejandro Estrada | Estación de Biología Tropical Los Tuxtlas, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico |
| Dr. Ben Collen | Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK |
Please review the full Tropical Conservation Science (TCS) author guidelines before submitting a manuscript to the journal.
TCS is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
TCS accepts Research Articles, Review Articles, Conservation Letters, Opinion Articles and Short Communications. Please review the author guidelines for more information on each paper type.
We encourage authors to include photographs of the landscapes, flora and/or fauna they have studied. These can be arranged as photo mosaics using a table from MS Word. The mosaics should be treated as figures and credits for the photographs should be provided in the figure legend.
Please read the guidelines below and then visit the journal submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/trc to submit your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
There is no charge for submitting a paper to TCS. For each accepted manuscript, you will be charged a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) of $750 USD. This fee covers the cost of publication and ensures that your article will be freely open to all worldwide.
If you anticipate any difficulty paying the APC, please reach out to TCS's Editorial Office to discuss options at tropicalconservationscience@gmail.com. TCS's operations are maintained entirely by publishing charges. We expect all of the paper's authors to exhaust all funding sources, possibly including personal funds, before requesting a discount on the APC.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of TCS will be reviewed. Please note that manuscripts not meeting the language requirement cannot be processed. Authors are strongly encouraged to seek support from SAGE Language Services as needed.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
Before publication SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. TCS publishes manuscripts under Creative Commons licenses. The standard Tropical Conservation Science license is Creative Commons by Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC), which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial. For more information, you are advised to visit SAGE's OA licenses page.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the Manuscript Submission process should be sent to the Editorial Office as follows:
Alejandro Estrada, Ph.D
tropicalconservationscience@gmail.com