Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Nature and Landscape Conservation journal rankings 2003
46 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation has 46 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.82, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.39. The top three are Ecological Monographs, Journal of Ecology, and Journal of Vegetation Science.
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)
46 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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1Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 3.86Q1 | 3.11 0.04 down from 2002 | 165 | 19% | $3,970 | ||
2Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 3.56 1.26 up from 2002 | 344 | 46% | $3,610 | ||
3Journal of Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.06 0.02 up from 2002 | 417 | 10% | $3,600 | ||
4FisheriesWiley · United States | 2.04Q1 | 1.46 0.37 down from 2002 | 107 | 0% | $3,500 | ||
5Journal of Tropical EcologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 1.58 0.23 up from 2002 | 187 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
6Applied Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 2.30 1.30 up from 2002 | 116 | 8% | $3,600 | ||
7Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.79Q1 | 2.87 1.20 up from 2002 | 1,044 | 7% | — | ||
8Plant EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 1.24 0.02 up from 2002 | 374 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
9Transactions of the American Fisheries SocietyWiley · United States | 1.47Q1 | 1.62 0.16 up from 2002 | 333 | 6% | $3,500 | ||
10River Research and ApplicationsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 1.16no 2002 value | 43 | 7% | $4,110 | — | |
11Acta OecologicaElsevier BV · France | 1.39Q1 | 1.42 0.33 up from 2002 | 112 | 10% | $3,210 | ||
12Reviews in Fish Biology and FisheriesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.39Q1 | 0.92 0.60 down from 2002 | 77 | 7% | $4,690 | ||
13Ecology Of Freshwater FishWiley · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 1.13 0.09 down from 2002 | 90 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
14Regulated Rivers Research & ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.42 0.01 up from 2002 | 130 | — | — | ||
15Marine and Freshwater ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.22Q2 | 1.42 0.48 up from 2002 | 353 | 11% | — | ||
16Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.20Q2 | 1.62 0.51 up from 2002 | 898 | 3% | — | ||
17Ecological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.11Q2 | 1.23 0.41 up from 2002 | 210 | 4% | $3,000 | ||
18Silva FennicaOAFinnish Society of Forest Science · Finland | 0.99Q2 | 1.03 0.22 up from 2002 | 126 | 100% | $862 | ||
19North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementWiley · United States | 0.98Q2 | 1.10 0.04 down from 2002 | 380 | 1% | $3,500 | ||
20Annals of Forest ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 0.97Q2 | 1.17 0.14 up from 2002 | 229 | 95% | $2,390 | ||
21Environmental Biology of FishesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 0.84 0.03 down from 2002 | 447 | 2% | $2,490 | ||
22Scandinavian Journal of Forest ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 0.92 0.05 up from 2002 | 232 | 1% | — | ||
23CopeiaAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · United States | 0.86Q2 | 0.93 0.05 down from 2002 | 510 | 4% | — | ||
24ZoologyElsevier BV · Germany | 0.78Q3 | 1.40 0.92 up from 2002 | 72 | 5% | $4,101 | ||
25Environmental ValuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.76Q3 | 0.57 0.03 down from 2002 | 148 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
26New ForestsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.69Q3 | 0.69 0.24 up from 2002 | 105 | 4% | $3,790 | ||
27River SystemsGermany | 0.68Q3 | 0.63 0.16 down from 2002 | 69 | 7% | — | ||
28Journal of Fish BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.78 0.01 down from 2002 | 1,824 | 6% | $4,480 | ||
29Forestry An International Journal of Forest ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.61 0.25 up from 2002 | 211 | 27% | $3,810 | ||
30Fisheries Management and EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.53 0.18 down from 2002 | 159 | 18% | $4,430 | ||
31Southern Journal of Applied ForestryOxford University Press · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.51 0.10 up from 2002 | 86 | 33% | — | ||
32European Journal of Forest ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.52Q3 | 0.52no change | 60 | — | $2,590 | ||
33Western Journal of Applied ForestryOxford University Press · United States | 0.51Q3 | 0.53 0.13 up from 2002 | 90 | 20% | — | ||
34Northern Journal of Applied ForestryOxford University Press · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.27 0.14 down from 2002 | 62 | 16% | — | ||
35Japanese Journal of IchthyologyIchthyological Society of Japan · Japan | 0.39Q3 | 0.39 0.07 up from 2002 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
36Ichthyological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.36Q4 | 0.35 0.30 down from 2002 | 180 | 4% | $2,390 | ||
37Scientia ForestalisOAEditora da Universidade de São Paulo · Brazil | 0.26Q4 | 0.20 0.04 up from 2002 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
38Silvae genetica/Silvae GeneticaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.18Q4 | 0.19 0.01 up from 2002 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
39Southeastern NaturalistEagle Hill Institute · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.21no 2002 value | 34 | 4% | — | — | |
40Journal of Forest PlanningOAJapan | 0.15Q4 | 0.17 0.11 down from 2002 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of Herpetological Medicine and SurgeryUnited States | 0.14Q4 | 0.15 0.11 up from 2002 | 135 | 6% | — | ||
42Tropical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.13Q4 | 0.08 0.02 down from 2002 | 41 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
43Northeastern NaturalistEagle Hill Institute · United States | 0.13Q4 | 0.11 0.07 down from 2002 | 220 | 3% | — | ||
44Forest SystemsOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.12Q4 | 0.34 0.23 up from 2002 | 135 | 100% | — | ||
45Journal of Forest ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.06Q4 | 0.13 0.08 up from 2002 | 180 | 100% | — | ||
46Transactions of the Kansas Academy of ScienceKansas Academy of Science · United States | 0.05Q4 | 0.12 0.14 down from 2002 | 71 | 3% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Nature and Landscape Conservation 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.
15 additional Nature and Landscape Conservation 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
- 46
- Window papers (baseline)
- 23,193 +26.4% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.817 +3.5% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 37 | 43 | 44 | 46 | 45 | 43 | 45 | 48 | 51 | 55 | 56 | 59 | 59 | 61 | 59 | 61 | 62 | 59 | 58 | 57 | 56 | 57 | 57 | 56 | 55 | 55 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 18,347 | 20,763 | 21,743 | 23,193 | 23,116 | 24,463 | 25,877 | 27,593 | 29,397 | 30,782 | 31,962 | 33,229 | 34,737 | 36,324 | 38,095 | 39,843 | 41,378 | 41,977 | 41,066 | 40,160 | 39,325 | 40,508 | 42,306 | 42,850 | 42,160 | 40,654 | |
| Median OJR | 0.79 | 0.816 | 0.84 | 0.817 | 0.867 | 0.815 | 0.92 | 0.955 | 0.89 | 0.814 | 0.868 | 0.95 | 0.958 | 1.05 | 1.08 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.91 | 0.851 | 0.846 | 0.74 | 0.69 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.66 |
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.