Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Subfield ranking · 2001
Ecology journal rankings 2001
164 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 164 ranked journals in 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Ecosystems, Global Change Biology, and Journal of Animal Ecology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. 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 1998–2000, the window the 2001 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)
164 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 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 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 2001. | Compare |
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1EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.42Q1 | 3.08 0.08 down from 2000 | 145 | 5% | $4,790 | ||
2Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 3.86 0.43 down from 2000 | 271 | 19% | $4,550 | ||
3Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 3.37 0.12 down from 2000 | 300 | 36% | $3,610 | ||
4OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.88Q1 | 2.74 0.28 up from 2000 | 873 | 6% | $3,790 | ||
5Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 2.70Q1 | 2.37 0.04 up from 2000 | 784 | 5% | $3,970 | ||
| 2.65Q1 | 1.86 0.13 down from 2000 | 90 | 0% | $3,310 | |||
7Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 2.63Q1 | 2.50 0.10 up from 2000 | 861 | 13% | $3,400 | ||
8BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 2.06 0.21 up from 2000 | 257 | 3% | $3,390 | ||
9EcologyWiley · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.95 0.13 down from 2000 | 1,856 | 8% | $3,970 | ||
10Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.49 0.30 down from 2000 | 188 | 6% | $4,590 | ||
11Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 2.75 0.41 up from 2000 | 149 | 5% | $4,640 | ||
12Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 1.95 0.03 up from 2000 | 495 | 5% | $3,830 | ||
13Journal of Avian BiologyOAWiley · Denmark | 2.01Q1 | 1.69 0.26 down from 2000 | 211 | 21% | $2,860 | ||
14Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 1.97Q1 | 2.40 0.20 up from 2000 | 273 | 96% | — | ||
15Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 1.79 0.13 down from 2000 | 393 | 11% | $4,940 | ||
16Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 1.88Q1 | 1.65 0.18 up from 2000 | 170 | 8% | $3,300 | ||
17Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.80 0.81 up from 2000 | 358 | 39% | $3,610 | ||
18EcoscienceTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.85Q1 | 1.36 0.24 down from 2000 | 189 | 3% | — | ||
19Journal of Wildlife ManagementWiley · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.16 0.43 up from 2000 | 483 | 16% | $4,270 | ||
20Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 1.80Q1 | 2.03 0.04 up from 2000 | 1,292 | 96% | — | ||
21Mammal ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.10 0.26 up from 2000 | 58 | 14% | $4,100 | ||
22Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.53Q1 | 1.57 0.15 up from 2000 | 652 | 4% | $3,790 | ||
23Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.53Q1 | 1.55 0.25 up from 2000 | 163 | 3% | — | ||
24Bird StudyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 1.69 0.48 up from 2000 | 157 | 98% | — | ||
25WetlandsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.48Q1 | 1.33 0.08 up from 2000 | 222 | 1% | $3,890 | ||
26Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 1.53 0.34 up from 2000 | 68 | 2% | $3,690 | ||
27Journal of Experimental BiologyThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 2.63 0.49 up from 2000 | 1,006 | 5% | — | ||
28WaterbirdsThe Waterbird Society · United States | 1.39Q1 | 1.24 0.56 up from 2000 | 149 | 5% | — | ||
29American ZoologistOxford University Press · United States | 1.37Q1 | 1.59 1.62 down from 2000 | 320 | 12% | — | ||
30FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 1.85 0.27 up from 2000 | 626 | 44% | $3,297 | ||
31ParasitologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 2.05 0.19 up from 2000 | 392 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
32Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für HydrobiologieInternational Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 1.16 0.20 up from 2000 | 272 | 4% | — | ||
33Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.31Q1 | 1.38 0.20 down from 2000 | 159 | 1% | $4,190 | ||
34Journal of MammalogyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 1.29 0.14 down from 2000 | 469 | 21% | $2,988 | ||
35Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 1.30 0.24 up from 2000 | 331 | 1% | $3,990 | ||
36Natural Areas JournalUnited States | 1.23Q1 | 0.67 0.04 up from 2000 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
37Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 4.52 0.64 down from 2000 | 91 | 13% | $5,390 | ||
38IbisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 1.19 0.08 up from 2000 | 280 | 8% | $4,480 | ||
39Polar BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.14Q1 | 1.17 0.07 down from 2000 | 332 | 7% | $3,090 | ||
40The AukOxford University Press · United States | 1.08Q1 | 1.01 0.85 down from 2000 | 733 | 37% | — | ||
41Journal of Field OrnithologyOAAssociation of Field Ornithologists · United States | 1.08Q1 | 0.69 1.09 down from 2000 | 86 | 3% | $3,000 | ||
42Population EcologyWiley · Japan | 1.07Q2 | 0.83 0.56 down from 2000 | 121 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
43General and Comparative EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.06Q2 | 2.03 0.16 down from 2000 | 522 | 5% | $3,540 | ||
44Ecological EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 0.82 0.23 up from 2000 | 218 | 1% | $3,910 | ||
45Journal of Comparative Physiology BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.04Q2 | 1.20 0.24 down from 2000 | 214 | 1% | $3,890 | ||
46Northwest ScienceWashington State University Press · United States | 1.03Q2 | 0.75 0.04 down from 2000 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
47Journal of Range ManagementUniversity of Arizona · United States | 1.03Q2 | 0.90 0.44 down from 2000 | 444 | 63% | — | ||
48Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 0.88 0.19 down from 2000 | 415 | 9% | $5,330 | ||
49Comparative ParasitologyUnited States | 0.99Q2 | 0.58no 2000 value | 38 | 0% | — | — | |
50Journal of LimnologyOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.99Q2 | 0.89 0.29 up from 2000 | 53 | 100% | $647 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology164
- Global and Planetary Change78
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis50
- Nature and Landscape Conservation43
- Water Science and Technology36
- Pollution28
- Environmental Engineering24
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law23
- Waste Management and Disposal8
- Environmental Chemistry7
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
71 additional Ecology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1998–2000, 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: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 164
- Window papers (baseline)
- 41,682 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.6292 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 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.