Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Subfield ranking · 2000
Ecology journal rankings 2000
147 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 147 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.59, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Global Change Biology, Ecosystems, and Journal of Animal Ecology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Environmental Science (11)
147 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 4.29no 1999 value | 239 | 20% | $4,550 | — | |
2EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.54Q1 | 3.16no 1999 value | 97 | 11% | $4,790 | — | |
3Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 3.49no 1999 value | 295 | 39% | $3,610 | — | |
| 2.91Q1 | 1.99no 1999 value | 97 | 14% | $3,310 | — | ||
5Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 2.55Q1 | 2.33no 1999 value | 719 | 5% | $3,970 | — | |
6Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 1.92no 1999 value | 356 | 9% | $4,940 | — | |
7Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 2.51Q1 | 2.40no 1999 value | 731 | 7% | $3,400 | — | |
8OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.49Q1 | 2.46no 1999 value | 916 | 8% | $3,790 | — | |
9EcologyWiley · United States | 2.47Q1 | 2.07no 1999 value | 1,729 | 6% | $3,970 | — | |
10BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 1.85no 1999 value | 261 | 6% | $3,390 | — | |
11Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.25Q1 | 1.58no 1999 value | 183 | 10% | $4,190 | — | |
12Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.21Q1 | 2.79no 1999 value | 185 | 9% | $4,590 | — | |
13Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 1.99no 1999 value | 436 | 56% | $3,610 | — | |
14Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 2.19Q1 | 2.20no 1999 value | 269 | 97% | — | — | |
15Journal of Avian BiologyOAWiley · Denmark | 2.14Q1 | 1.94no 1999 value | 191 | 16% | $2,860 | — | |
16Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 2.34no 1999 value | 73 | 5% | $4,640 | — | |
17Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.93Q1 | 1.30no 1999 value | 194 | 3% | — | — | |
18Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 1.73Q1 | 1.99no 1999 value | 1,294 | 95% | — | — | |
19Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 1.92no 1999 value | 458 | 5% | $3,830 | — | |
20American ZoologistOxford University Press · United States | 1.64Q1 | 3.22no 1999 value | 222 | 14% | — | — | |
21Journal of Wildlife ManagementWiley · United States | 1.63Q1 | 1.74no 1999 value | 544 | 12% | $4,270 | — | |
22EcoscienceTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.61Q1 | 1.60no 1999 value | 195 | 0% | — | — | |
23Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.47no 1999 value | 165 | 7% | $3,300 | — | |
24Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 1.19no 1999 value | 37 | 3% | $3,690 | — | |
25WetlandsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.39Q1 | 1.26no 1999 value | 206 | 3% | $3,890 | — | |
26Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.34Q1 | 1.41no 1999 value | 651 | 3% | $3,790 | — | |
27The AukOxford University Press · United States | 1.32Q1 | 1.86no 1999 value | 462 | 38% | — | — | |
28ParasitologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 1.87no 1999 value | 398 | 5% | $3,550 | — | |
29Journal of Experimental BiologyThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 2.14no 1999 value | 958 | 7% | — | — | |
30Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 1.06no 1999 value | 358 | 4% | $3,990 | — | |
31Journal of MammalogyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.16Q1 | 1.43no 1999 value | 396 | 15% | $2,988 | — | |
32The Rangeland JournalCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.16Q1 | 0.91no 1999 value | 48 | 6% | — | — | |
33Ornithological ApplicationsOxford University Press · United States | 1.15Q1 | 1.49no 1999 value | 454 | 37% | $3,718 | — | |
34Polar BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.12Q1 | 1.24no 1999 value | 349 | 10% | $3,090 | — | |
35Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für HydrobiologieInternational Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology · Germany | 1.12Q1 | 0.96no 1999 value | 210 | 1% | — | — | |
36Bird StudyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.09Q1 | 1.20no 1999 value | 154 | 100% | — | — | |
37Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater EcosystemsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q1 | 1.08no 1999 value | 213 | 3% | $4,730 | — | |
38Population EcologyWiley · Japan | 1.06Q2 | 1.39no 1999 value | 103 | 29% | $3,000 | — | |
39Antarctic ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.04no 1999 value | 177 | 16% | $3,550 | — | |
40Ornithological MonographsUnited States | 1.02Q2 | 1.67no 1999 value | 63 | 0% | — | — | |
41Journal of Range ManagementUniversity of Arizona · United States | 1.02Q2 | 1.34no 1999 value | 341 | 62% | — | — | |
42FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 1.02Q2 | 1.58no 1999 value | 528 | 40% | $3,297 | — | |
43Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 5.15no 1999 value | 87 | 3% | $5,390 | — | |
44General and Comparative EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.97Q2 | 2.19no 1999 value | 543 | 6% | $3,540 | — | |
45IbisWiley · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.11no 1999 value | 305 | 12% | $4,480 | — | |
46Northwest ScienceWashington State University Press · United States | 0.95Q2 | 0.79no 1999 value | 33 | 0% | — | — | |
47Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.07no 1999 value | 425 | 9% | $5,330 | — | |
48Archiv für HydrobiologieSchweizerbart science publishers · Germany | 0.95Q2 | 0.90no 1999 value | 60 | 0% | — | — | |
49Pacific Conservation BiologyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.94Q2 | 0.92no 1999 value | 170 | 39% | — | — | |
50Journal of Comparative Physiology BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.93Q2 | 1.44no 1999 value | 217 | 4% | $3,890 | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology147
- Global and Planetary Change74
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis47
- Nature and Landscape Conservation37
- Water Science and Technology34
- Pollution28
- Environmental Engineering24
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law21
- Environmental Chemistry7
- Waste Management and Disposal6
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
82 additional Ecology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 147
- Window papers (baseline)
- 34,254 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.59 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 147 | 164 | 175 | 182 | 188 | 194 | 193 | 205 | 221 | 232 | 235 | 248 | 249 | 258 | 261 | 273 | 276 | 274 | 274 | 269 | 276 | 279 | 295 | 296 | 288 | 285 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 34,254 | 41,682 | 44,762 | 49,088 | 47,455 | 50,630 | 54,383 | 60,221 | 66,252 | 72,124 | 77,093 | 82,207 | 86,067 | 90,052 | 94,017 | 98,126 | 99,678 | 101,371 | 102,738 | 106,059 | 108,848 | 114,234 | 123,053 | 131,302 | 140,427 | 146,313 | |
| Median OJR | 0.59 | 0.6292 | 0.638 | 0.6289 | 0.61 | 0.643 | 0.73 | 0.736 | 0.75 | 0.737 | 0.76 | 0.809 | 0.811 | 0.84 | 0.805 | 0.80 | 0.79 | 0.810 | 0.77 | 0.72 | 0.71 | 0.68 | 0.62 | 0.642 | 0.65 | 0.67 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.