Media Konservasi

About Media Konservasi

Media Konservasi — Journal Profile

Media Konservasi is an Indonesian peer-reviewed journal of tropical forest conservation, published by the Department of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism (DKSHE) of the Faculty of Forestry and Environment at IPB University in Bogor, in collaboration with the Indonesian Biological Association (Perhimpunan Biologi Indonesia, PBI). Its identifiers are print ISSN 0215-1677 and online ISSN 2502-6313, the pair carried on this JournalsWorld record, on the journal's own masthead, in its Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) listing and in its OpenAlex source record. The journal's stated vision is to become an internationally recognised Indonesian journal in the conservation of tropical forest resources, the environment and ecotourism, and its archive reaches back to 1987 — making it one of Indonesia's long-running conservation titles, now publishing four issues a year in full open access.

Quick Facts

Identity, Vision and History

Media Konservasi — the name means, in Indonesian, "conservation media" or "conservation forum" — is the house journal of one of Indonesia's most important forestry faculties, and its identity is inseparable from IPB University's Bogor campus, the historic centre of Indonesian forestry science. The journal states its vision directly: to become an internationally recognised Indonesian journal in the conservation of tropical forest resources, the environment and ecotourism. Its mission is to disseminate the achievements of researchers to national, regional and international communities by publishing current, high-quality research in tropical forest conservation, the environment, biodiversity and ecotourism. The collaboration with the Indonesian Biological Association widens that base beyond a single department, connecting the journal to the national community of biologists.

The archive tells the longevity story. The journal's site lists published volumes from 1987 onward — volume 31 is appearing in 2026 — and OpenAlex likewise dates its first publications to 1987. For most of that history it appeared three times a year; the current statement of frequency is four issues a year, in January, April, July and October, with additional special issues on focused themes, and the volume list shows the four-issue rhythm in the most recent volumes. One caution on the numbers that circulate about this journal: the "2021–2026" coverage sometimes quoted for it is only the window of its recent Scopus coverage as summarised by SCImago, not the journal's lifespan. The journal itself is nearly four decades old.

Scope and Subject Coverage

The journal focuses on tropical forest conservation, the environment, biodiversity and ecotourism, with an explicit regional focus on Southeast Asia. Within that frame it accepts manuscripts covering all aspects of ecology; landscape ecology; in-situ and ex-situ conservation of wildlife; remote sensing and geographic information systems applications; the sustainable use of plants and wildlife; ethnobotany; bioprospecting; ecotourism; the management of conservation and protected areas; urban forests; environmental services; and environmental education. Its own topic grouping on the site gathers these into biosprospecting and wildlife utilisation, environmental analysis and spatial modelling, the management of conservation areas, natural recreation and ecotourism, and wildlife ecology. DOAJ's keyword record — ecology, conservation, wildlife, ecotourism, urban forest, bioprospecting — matches, and its Library of Congress placement is under Forestry.

OpenAlex's topic analysis of the journal's 582 indexed works confirms the same centre of gravity from the citation record: wildlife ecology and conservation is the largest cluster, followed by forest ecology and conservation, community-based tourism development and sustainability, and conservation, biodiversity and resource management. A manuscript about a Sumatran protected area, a Javan urban forest, mangrove change mapped from satellite imagery, or a village ecotourism enterprise is exactly the journal's home ground; a manuscript with no tropical, forest, biodiversity or conservation connection is not.

Article Types and Editorial Policies

The journal publishes several distinct formats under one frame — title, authors and affiliations, corresponding author, abstract, keywords, main body, acknowledgements and references. Research Articles present original work that has not been published elsewhere. Short Communications (also called Research Notes or Scientific Notes) run to roughly 2,000–3,000 words and exist to share significant findings quickly with researchers in the same field. Technical Papers explain new or modified techniques, procedures or devices — hardware or software — of practical value for biodiversity conservation. Book Reviews offer brief critical evaluations of books on conservation and ecotourism, up to about 2,000 words, and Opinion pieces of similar length present argued positions on conservation and ecotourism questions. Special issues follow the same standards as regular issues: guest editors are vetted and approved before appointment, the Editor-in-Chief keeps full responsibility for content, external peer review applies, and papers by guest editors themselves pass an independent review and may form no more than a quarter of a special issue's content. The journal's authorship rules require that every listed author has contributed substantially to the work, taken part in writing its intellectual content and approved the final version.

Peer Review, Charges and Licensing

DOAJ records the review model as double anonymous peer review, and the journal's own process description fills in the working detail: section editors aim to return recommendations — return to authors, acceptance or rejection — within about two weeks of review, manuscripts may be rejected if authors fail to revise as reviewers or the board suggest, and the Editor-in-Chief notifies authors of decisions, with an appeals route reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief and the relevant section editor. On acceptance, authors pay the article processing charge, after which the manuscript passes through copyediting and layout before the acceptance letter announcing its issue. DOAJ records that charge as up to IDR 1,500,000 and notes that the journal offers discounts and waivers; an older departmental page once listed a lower figure of IDR 500,000, so authors should confirm the current amount on the journal's own APC page before submitting. Articles are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence with copyright retained by the authors, they carry DOIs, and the journal's content is preserved through the PKP Preservation Network, per DOAJ. DOAJ records an average publication time of 16 weeks.

Metrics and Indexing — Read Carefully

SCImago, working from Scopus data, assigns Media Konservasi an SJR of 0.137 for 2025 and a Q4 placing in each of its categories — Ecology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Forestry; and Nature and Landscape Conservation — with an H-index of 5 and a Scopus coverage window of 2021–2026 in its record. Its recent document counts there rise from 28 in 2021 and 16 in 2022 to 36 in 2023, 56 in 2024 and 42 in 2025, reflecting the journal's move to four issues a year. OpenAlex, resolving the title through its ISSN endpoint to source S4306519469, counts 582 works, all of them open access, with 1,246 citations, an OpenAlex-computed H-index of 11, an i10-index of 19 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.83 at the time of checking — figures that cover the journal's whole archive rather than only the recent Scopus window, which is why they run higher than SCImago's.

Indexing claims need one careful distinction. The journal's own indexing page lists DOAJ, Google Scholar, EBSCO and Garuda, and states that the journal is currently under evaluation by Scopus, inviting readers to follow the evaluation in Elsevier's tracker; the journal also displays its national Sinta accreditation by Indonesia's research ministry (Kemenristekbrin). At the same time, SCImago's Scopus-based record for the journal exists and shows recent coverage — the two pictures are best reconciled by saying the title has a Scopus-sourced SCImago record for recent years while the journal's own page describes its formal evaluation status, and authors for whom Scopus indexing is a hard requirement should verify the title's current status in the Scopus source list itself before submitting. The DOAJ listing, by contrast, is unambiguous and was verified directly for this profile.

Who Should Publish Here — and Who Should Not

Media Konservasi is a natural home for researchers working on Indonesian and Southeast Asian conservation: protected-area managers with monitoring data, ecologists studying tropical wildlife or forests, remote-sensing specialists mapping habitat change, ethnobotanists documenting plant use, and scholars of ecotourism and community-based conservation. Its regional focus is a strength for such work — the editors, reviewers and readers know the field sites and the policy setting — and its open access terms, DOAJ listing and modest charge make it reachable for the Indonesian university and agency researchers who form its core community. It is not the right venue for work outside conservation, environment and ecotourism, for temperate or non-tropical studies with no transfer to its region, or for authors who need a high-impact international title for evaluation purposes; its metrics are modest and honestly reported as such.

Similar and Neighbouring Journals

Within Indonesia, the closest neighbours are the other IPB and Indonesian university forestry and conservation titles — journals of tropical forest management, forestry research and biodiversity published from Bogor, Yogyakarta and other Indonesian campuses — which share Media Konservasi's regional brief and its Sinta-accredited environment. In SCImago's categories the journal sits among Q4 ecology and forestry titles from across Asia. Authors choosing between them should compare subject fit first — few neighbouring titles match its combined conservation-plus-ecotourism brief — then open access terms, charges and indexing, in that order.

Geographical Reach and Readership

Although the journal's heartland is Indonesia, its own pages map a wider intended readership. Its stated geographical coverage lists Indonesia first, then the whole of Southeast Asia — Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam — followed by other countries in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region, Europe, Africa and the Americas. That ordering is a fair picture of the journal's community: Indonesian authors and field sites dominate, regional contributions from neighbouring tropical countries are welcomed, and the journal positions its tropical conservation content for a global readership confronting similar forests and similar pressures. Its subject coverage sidebar makes the same point by theme, organising content under biosprospecting and wildlife utilisation, environmental analysis and spatial modelling, management of conservation areas, natural recreation and ecotourism, and wildlife ecology — the five doors through which most of its readers enter.

What the Journal's Most-Read Work Shows

The journal's site highlights its most-cited articles, and they illustrate its range better than any scope statement. The most-cited item it lists, with 30 citations noted, is a historical review of data and information on Indonesian mangrove area — a reference work for a habitat that sits at the centre of Indonesian coastal conservation. Behind it come ethnobotanical studies: a study of food plants in the Bentong community of Barru Regency in South Sulawesi (19 citations noted), and an ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants among the Penguluh people in the Limau forest management unit in Jambi (8 citations). Behavioural and technical work follows — a study of how urban communities planted useful plants in their yards during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a methods paper estimating tree height, diameter and canopy cover from unmanned aerial vehicle imagery flown at various heights (each with 6 citations noted). Mangroves, ethnobotany, urban greening and drone-based forest measurement: that spread, from archival synthesis to field anthropology to remote-sensing method, is the journal in miniature, and it shows prospective authors the company their work will keep.

How Review and Production Actually Run

The journal's peer-review page sets out the working rhythm in more detail than most. Reviewers are invited for their closeness to the manuscript's topic; section editors are expected to form their recommendations — return to the authors, accept, or reject — within about two weeks of the review stage; and a manuscript can still be rejected after review if its authors fail to revise as the reviewers or the editorial board suggest, or respond inadequately to the suggestions made. Rejection is notified by the Editor-in-Chief, and it is not the end of the road by default: appeals are considered by the Editor-in-Chief together with the relevant section editor, whose joint decision is final. Acceptance triggers the production sequence in a fixed order — the article processing charge is paid, the manuscript passes to copyediting and layout, and only then is the acceptance letter sent announcing the issue in which the paper will appear. Authors planning around graduation, promotion or grant deadlines should build their timetable from DOAJ's recorded average of 16 weeks for the whole journey, and should treat the journal's special issues — which follow the same review standards, with guest editors vetted in advance and their own papers independently reviewed and capped at a quarter of an issue's content — as subject to the same discipline, not a shortcut around it.

Open Science Infrastructure

For a faculty journal, Media Konservasi carries a fuller set of formal policies than its size might suggest, and the sidebars of its site read as a checklist of modern journal infrastructure: a publication ethics statement, a plagiarism screening page, an open access statement, a copyright notice, policies on archiving, repositories, retraction-withdrawal-correction practice (its R-W-C policy), Crossmark, and a generative AI policy, alongside its APC discount and waiver page and its payment channel information. DOAJ verifies the load-bearing parts of that structure independently — DOIs on articles, a stated CC BY licence, copyright retained by authors, preservation through the PKP Preservation Network, and plagiarism detection in place. Its national standing is likewise formalised: the journal displays its Sinta accreditation from Indonesia's ministry responsible for research (Kemenristekbrin), the national system through which Indonesian journals are graded and through which many Indonesian academics' publication requirements are defined. None of this makes the journal a high-impact title, but it makes it a properly constituted one, which is what authors' institutions most often need to verify.

A Practical Submission Checklist

A well-prepared submission to Media Konservasi shares a recognisable shape. The work sits inside the journal's frame — tropical forest conservation, environment, biodiversity or ecotourism, most often with a Southeast Asian setting — and the manuscript states that fit plainly in its opening pages rather than leaving the editors to infer it. The paper type is chosen deliberately and its form followed: a Research Article with the journal's full frame of title, authors and affiliations, corresponding author details, abstract, keywords, main body, acknowledgements and references; a Short Communication held to its 2,000–3,000-word discipline for a finding that gains from speed; a Technical Paper that gives enough procedural detail for another team to repeat the technique; or a Book Review or Opinion piece kept within its roughly 2,000-word limit. Authorship follows the journal's three-part test — substantial contribution, a real part in writing the intellectual content, and approval of the final version — and the corresponding author is ready for the journal's post-acceptance sequence, in which the processing charge is settled before copyediting and layout begin. Authors who have matched those expectations, and who have used the journal's article template and author statement form as its site directs, give their work its best chance in a review process the journal runs to a professional timetable.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the ISSNs of Media Konservasi?
Print ISSN 0215-1677 and online ISSN 2502-6313.

Who publishes Media Konservasi?
The Department of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism (DKSHE), Faculty of Forestry and Environment, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia, in collaboration with the Indonesian Biological Association (PBI).

How long has it been publishing?
Its archive runs from 1987 to the present volume (volume 31 in 2026). The 2021–2026 dates sometimes quoted are only its recent Scopus coverage window.

Is it open access, and what does it charge?
Yes — fully open access under CC BY, with copyright retained by authors. DOAJ records an article processing charge of up to IDR 1,500,000, payable after acceptance, with discounts and waivers offered; confirm the current figure on the journal's APC page.

What are its metrics?
SCImago: SJR 2025 of 0.137 (Q4) and H-index 5 on the recent Scopus record. OpenAlex: 582 works, 1,246 citations, H-index 11 across the full archive. Quote each figure with its source.

Where is it indexed?
The journal lists DOAJ, Google Scholar, EBSCO and Garuda, and holds Indonesian Sinta accreditation; its own page describes its Scopus status as under evaluation, while SCImago carries a Scopus-based record for recent years — verify current Scopus status in the Scopus source list if it is essential to you.