One of the principal missions of Oryx is to support conservation authors in their endeavours to make an impact in conservation, wherever they live and work.
Communicating research findings clearly, to both national and international audiences, is integral to making an impact. This is where we can help, working closely with authors to provide them with the editorial and media support they require, from the initial submission through to editing, publication and the writing of a blog post to promote their article.
“Our paper improved considerably as a result of the meticulous editing work of the Oryx editorial team. It is by far one of the best experiences we have ever had when publishing a scientific paper!”
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares
As additional support we maintain Writing for Conservation—a guide to help authors with their scientific writing and the production of publication-quality figures—and a list of our recommendations for free and open source Tools and resources, and we also offer writing for conservation workshops.
Various metrics illustrate the impact of Oryx and of its authors:
International authorship
The impact of Oryx is international. Since 2010 we have published articles from submitting authors in over 100 countries:
Readership
All Oryx articles from volume 1 of 1950 are freely available on Cambridge Core. In 2021 Oryx went fully open access, and articles were viewed and downloaded more than 1 million times that year. Usage has stayed high since then, with > 825,000 articles views/downloads in 2025.
Scholar Metrics
Scholar Metrics illustrate the visibility and influence of articles, authors and journals. The 2025 Scholar Metrics for journals cover articles published in 2020–2024, including citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of July 2025.
The metrics are the five-year h-index and h-median. The h5-index and h5-median of Oryx are 35 and 41, respectively.
Impact Factor
The Impact Factor also illustrates the visibility and influence of journals. Clarivate Analytics publishes an annual Journal Citation Report, the most recent of which, for 2025, includes citations in that year to articles published in 2023 and 2024.
Oryx has a 2025 Impact Factor of 2.6, ranking it 29th of 77 journals in the Biodiversity Conservation category and 96th of 205 in the Ecology category.
For more information on the impact factor and how it is calculated, visit Clarivate.