Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Ecology journal rankings 2002
175 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 175 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.64, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.15. The top three are Global Change Biology, Ecosystems, and Journal of Animal Ecology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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)
175 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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 4.17 0.31 up from 2001 | 261 | 14% | $4,550 | ||
2EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.74Q1 | 2.97 0.11 down from 2001 | 158 | 9% | $4,790 | ||
3Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 2.91 0.46 down from 2001 | 347 | 48% | $3,610 | ||
4Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.25Q1 | 2.58 0.08 up from 2001 | 873 | 16% | $3,400 | ||
5OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.07Q1 | 3.08 0.34 up from 2001 | 824 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
| 2.97Q1 | 0.72 1.14 down from 2001 | 77 | 2% | $3,310 | |||
7Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 3.35 0.55 up from 2001 | 358 | 51% | $3,610 | ||
8Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 2.68Q1 | 2.17 0.20 down from 2001 | 816 | 7% | $3,970 | ||
9EcologyWiley · United States | 2.50Q1 | 2.18 0.24 up from 2001 | 1,950 | 6% | $3,970 | ||
10Journal of Wildlife ManagementWiley · United States | 2.43Q1 | 2.79 0.63 up from 2001 | 410 | 9% | $4,270 | ||
11Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 3.29 0.54 up from 2001 | 247 | 7% | $4,640 | ||
12BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 2.99 0.93 up from 2001 | 263 | 9% | $3,390 | ||
13Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 2.54 0.59 up from 2001 | 582 | 5% | $3,830 | ||
14Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 2.28Q1 | 2.63 0.23 up from 2001 | 282 | 96% | — | ||
15Bird StudyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 0.98 0.71 down from 2001 | 160 | 100% | — | ||
16Journal of Avian BiologyOAWiley · Denmark | 2.10Q1 | 2.29 0.60 up from 2001 | 192 | 19% | $2,860 | ||
17Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.09Q1 | 2.65 1.10 up from 2001 | 169 | 3% | — | ||
18Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 2.09Q1 | 2.45 0.42 up from 2001 | 1,299 | 94% | — | ||
19Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.05Q1 | 2.35 0.14 down from 2001 | 222 | 6% | $4,590 | ||
20Population EcologyWiley · Japan | 1.99Q1 | 2.28 1.45 up from 2001 | 110 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
21Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 2.07 0.29 up from 2001 | 416 | 14% | $4,940 | ||
22Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 1.88Q1 | 1.45 0.20 down from 2001 | 172 | 7% | $3,300 | ||
23Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 1.83 0.45 up from 2001 | 190 | 1% | $4,190 | ||
24Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 0.99 0.54 down from 2001 | 107 | 4% | $3,690 | ||
25EcoscienceTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.60Q1 | 1.27 0.10 down from 2001 | 187 | 5% | — | ||
26Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.57Q1 | 1.82 0.25 up from 2001 | 714 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
27Journal of Experimental BiologyThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 2.77 0.14 up from 2001 | 1,101 | 9% | — | ||
28Remote Sensing ReviewsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 1.32 0.75 up from 2001 | 53 | — | — | ||
29Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.35 0.47 up from 2001 | 400 | 11% | $5,330 | ||
30Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary ResearchOAWiley · Germany | 1.47Q1 | 2.15 1.19 up from 2001 | 69 | 50% | $2,350 | ||
31ParasitologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.02 0.03 down from 2001 | 438 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
32Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für HydrobiologieInternational Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology · Germany | 1.37Q1 | 1.13 0.03 down from 2001 | 296 | 5% | — | ||
33Ecological EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 1.11 0.29 up from 2001 | 257 | 4% | $3,910 | ||
34FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 1.85no change | 660 | 44% | $3,297 | ||
35OstrichTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 1.30Q1 | 1.17 0.88 up from 2001 | 232 | 0% | — | ||
36Polar BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.25Q1 | 1.52 0.35 up from 2001 | 361 | 8% | $3,090 | ||
37Antarctic ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 1.38 0.60 up from 2001 | 176 | 15% | $3,550 | ||
38Wetlands Ecology and ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.23Q1 | 1.00 0.39 up from 2001 | 109 | 2% | $3,090 | ||
39Animal ConservationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 2.10 0.94 up from 2001 | 189 | 9% | $4,430 | ||
40Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.19Q1 | 1.13 0.17 down from 2001 | 324 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
41Journal of Hydraulic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.17Q1 | 0.93 0.33 up from 2001 | 621 | 2% | — | ||
42Annales Zoologici FenniciFinnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board · Finland | 1.17Q1 | 2.00 0.89 up from 2001 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
43Journal of Comparative Physiology BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q1 | 1.50 0.29 up from 2001 | 217 | 2% | $3,890 | ||
44The Rangeland JournalCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.15Q1 | 0.88 0.41 up from 2001 | 47 | 22% | — | ||
45Austral EcologyWiley · Australia | 1.11Q2 | 1.10 0.57 up from 2001 | 236 | 10% | $3,310 | ||
46General and Comparative EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.10Q2 | 2.14 0.11 up from 2001 | 507 | 1% | $3,540 | ||
47Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 4.86 0.35 up from 2001 | 88 | 8% | $5,390 | ||
48Aquatic EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 0.81 0.06 up from 2001 | 114 | 2% | $3,790 | ||
49WetlandsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.08Q2 | 0.90 0.43 down from 2001 | 222 | 3% | $3,890 | ||
50Natural Areas JournalUnited States | 1.06Q2 | 0.94 0.27 up from 2001 | 42 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology175
- Global and Planetary Change90
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis53
- Nature and Landscape Conservation44
- Water Science and Technology38
- Pollution29
- Environmental Engineering24
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law22
- Waste Management and Disposal10
- Environmental Chemistry9
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
72 additional Ecology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 175
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,762 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.638 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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.