About the Journal

Sustainability and Biodiversity Conservation (SBC) (ISSN:2821-2207)  is an international, interdisciplinary journal covering a wide range of topics, from various fields of sustainable development, sustainable harvest, nature conservation, wildlife ecology, wildlife biology, and multiple aspects of biodiversity conservation. SBC was founded by the Biodiversity Conservation Society in 2022 at Koc University, Istanbul. We encourage and welcome reviews, editorials, original research papers, and short notes in sustainability, wildlife, and biodiversity conservation written in English without any geographic limitation. However, contributions covering the Palearctic and Oriental biogeographic regions are particularly encouraged. The journal is devoted to the publication of high-quality papers on all aspects of biodiversity (marine and terrestrial), particularly ecology, systematic and conservation, sustainable development, quantitative analyses, and modeling of animal populations and their habitats are encouraged. SBC publishes three issues per year.

Open Access Policy

All literature published by SBC is freely accessible by scholars without any payment. We also follow the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which can be accessed via the following link:

http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read

License feature:

 Sustainability and Biodiversity Conservation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"

SBC applies the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license to our published works. This license was developed to facilitate open access – namely, free immediate access to and unrestricted reuse of original works of all types. Under this license, authors agree to make articles legally available for reuse, without permission or fees, for virtually any purpose. Anyone may copy, distribute, or reuse these articles if the author and source are properly cited. Based on this license, others can distribute the article, create abstracts, extracts, revised versions, adaptations, or make translations, without permission from the author while crediting the author(s), and any damage to the author's honor or reputation.

Article processing charges (APCs)

Article Publication Charges

All articles accepted and published in SBC are fully Open Access and will be available to read, download, and share freely immediately. Submissions will be published free of charge from submission to final publication.

Review process 

As a peer-reviewed journal, SBC uses a double-blind peer-review system. Our team of reviewers includes over 100 internal and external reviewers. The average period from submission to a first decision is around 30 days, and from the first decision to acceptance is lower than 40 days.

Any invited reviewer who feels unqualified or unable to review the manuscript due to a conflict of interests will ask to notify the editors and decline the invitation. Reviewers will be asked to formulate their statements clearly in a sound and reasoned way so that authors can use the reviewer’s arguments to improve the manuscript. Personal criticism of the authors must be avoided. They should indicate in their review process any relevant literature that has not been cited by the authors, anything that has been reported in previous publications and not given appropriate reference or citation, and any substantial similarity or overlap with any other manuscript (published or unpublished) of which they have personal knowledge.