Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Ecology journal rankings 2003
182 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 182 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.12. The top three are Ardea, Global Change Biology, and Ecosystems.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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)
182 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1ArdeaNetherlands | 5.71Q1 | 5.32 4.89 up from 2002 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
2Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 5.06 0.89 up from 2002 | 286 | 19% | $4,550 | ||
3EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.22Q1 | 4.15 1.18 up from 2002 | 175 | 13% | $4,790 | ||
4BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.63Q1 | 3.18 0.18 up from 2002 | 196 | 10% | $3,390 | ||
5OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.54Q1 | 3.83 0.75 up from 2002 | 857 | 9% | $3,790 | ||
6Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 3.91 0.56 up from 2002 | 319 | 53% | $3,610 | ||
7Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 3.36 0.45 up from 2002 | 345 | 52% | $3,610 | ||
8Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 2.96Q1 | 2.78 0.21 up from 2002 | 884 | 12% | $3,400 | ||
9Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 2.66Q1 | 2.35 0.18 up from 2002 | 856 | 15% | $3,970 | ||
10Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 2.52Q1 | 1.92 0.47 up from 2002 | 205 | 6% | $3,300 | ||
11Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 3.58 0.28 up from 2002 | 300 | 9% | $4,640 | ||
12Journal of Wildlife ManagementWiley · United States | 2.46Q1 | 2.25 0.54 down from 2002 | 385 | 14% | $4,270 | ||
13Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.42Q1 | 2.73 0.08 up from 2002 | 175 | 4% | — | ||
14EcologyWiley · United States | 2.38Q1 | 2.34 0.16 up from 2002 | 2,137 | 12% | $3,970 | ||
15Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 2.22Q1 | 2.52 0.07 up from 2002 | 1,421 | 96% | — | ||
16Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.65 0.11 up from 2002 | 694 | 5% | $3,830 | ||
17Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 2.17Q1 | 2.48 0.15 down from 2002 | 256 | 97% | — | ||
18Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 2.37 0.30 up from 2002 | 491 | 20% | $4,940 | ||
19Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.73 0.38 up from 2002 | 244 | 10% | $4,590 | ||
20Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.96Q1 | 2.06 0.23 up from 2002 | 185 | 3% | $4,190 | ||
21Ecological EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 1.61 0.50 up from 2002 | 271 | 1% | $3,910 | ||
22Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary ResearchOAWiley · Germany | 1.86Q1 | 2.68 0.53 up from 2002 | 67 | 45% | $2,350 | ||
23Journal of Comparative Physiology BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.81Q1 | 2.71 1.21 up from 2002 | 225 | 5% | $3,890 | ||
24ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingElsevier BV | 1.80Q1 | 0.95 0.23 up from 2002 | 86 | 7% | $3,310 | ||
25Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.77Q1 | 2.23 0.41 up from 2002 | 725 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
26Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 1.78 0.43 up from 2002 | 372 | 14% | $5,330 | ||
27Journal of Avian BiologyOAWiley · Denmark | 1.60Q1 | 1.72 0.57 down from 2002 | 197 | 14% | $2,860 | ||
28WetlandsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.55Q1 | 1.72 0.81 up from 2002 | 211 | 3% | $3,890 | ||
29Austral EcologyWiley · Australia | 1.49Q1 | 1.68 0.58 up from 2002 | 308 | 13% | $3,310 | ||
29FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 2.08 0.22 up from 2002 | 702 | 63% | $3,297 | ||
31ParasitologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 2.15 0.13 up from 2002 | 409 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
32Animal ConservationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 2.03 0.08 down from 2002 | 153 | 6% | $4,430 | ||
33Bulletin of Marine ScienceRosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science · United States | 1.45Q1 | 0.92 0.10 up from 2002 | 80 | 0% | — | ||
34Journal of Hydraulic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.18 0.24 up from 2002 | 538 | 1% | — | ||
35Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.43Q1 | 1.64 0.51 up from 2002 | 357 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
36Remote Sensing ReviewsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 0.92 0.40 down from 2002 | 53 | — | — | ||
37EcoscienceTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.35Q1 | 1.29 0.02 up from 2002 | 179 | 0% | — | ||
38Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für HydrobiologieInternational Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 1.24 0.11 up from 2002 | 309 | — | — | ||
39Journal of Experimental BiologyThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 2.22 0.54 down from 2002 | 1,227 | 34% | — | ||
40Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.22Q1 | 1.05 0.07 up from 2002 | 109 | 8% | $3,690 | ||
41Aquatic SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.18Q1 | 1.37 0.22 up from 2002 | 93 | 31% | $4,190 | ||
42Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 5.47 0.61 up from 2002 | 79 | 13% | $5,390 | ||
43The Rangeland JournalCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.17Q1 | 1.06 0.18 up from 2002 | 53 | 22% | — | ||
44Journal of MammalogyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.13Q1 | 1.09 0.08 up from 2002 | 566 | 21% | $2,988 | ||
45Population EcologyWiley · Japan | 1.12Q1 | 1.09 1.18 down from 2002 | 110 | 8% | $3,000 | ||
46Polar BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.12Q1 | 1.44 0.08 down from 2002 | 389 | 8% | $3,090 | ||
47Journal of Great Lakes ResearchElsevier BV · Canada | 1.11Q2 | 1.46 0.18 up from 2002 | 159 | 1% | $3,200 | ||
48Wildlife ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.11Q2 | 1.32 0.17 up from 2002 | 216 | 8% | — | ||
49Australian Journal of ZoologyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.11Q2 | 1.27 0.22 up from 2002 | 154 | 12% | — | ||
50acta ethologicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.06Q2 | 0.75 0.19 down from 2002 | 58 | 13% | $2,990 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology182
- Global and Planetary Change94
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis56
- Nature and Landscape Conservation46
- Water Science and Technology39
- Pollution31
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law27
- Environmental Engineering26
- Waste Management and Disposal13
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
64 additional Ecology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 182
- Window papers (baseline)
- 49,088 +43.3% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.6289 +6.4% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.