Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
Ecology journal rankings 2005
194 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 194 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 0.64, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 1.07. The top three are Global Change Biology, Journal of Applied Ecology, and Ecosystems.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. 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 2002–2004, the window the 2005 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)
194 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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005. | Compare |
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1Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 5.67 0.43 up from 2004 | 441 | 17% | $4,550 | ||
2Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.91Q1 | 6.08 2.01 up from 2004 | 280 | 53% | $3,610 | ||
3EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.80Q1 | 4.81 0.99 up from 2004 | 194 | 12% | $4,790 | ||
4Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.42Q1 | 3.70 0.06 up from 2004 | 762 | 10% | $3,400 | ||
| 3.35Q1 | 3.18 0.81 up from 2004 | 100 | 7% | $3,310 | |||
6Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 3.75 0.86 down from 2004 | 337 | 40% | $3,610 | ||
7Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.29Q1 | 5.49 2.45 up from 2004 | 628 | 15% | $3,970 | ||
8ArdeaNetherlands | 3.13Q1 | 0.13 3.85 down from 2004 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
9EcologyWiley · United States | 3.09Q1 | 4.77 1.43 up from 2004 | 1,566 | 11% | $3,970 | ||
10OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.00Q1 | 3.61no change | 1,002 | 11% | $3,790 | ||
11Journal of Wildlife ManagementWiley · United States | 2.97Q1 | 4.89 0.56 up from 2004 | 360 | 3% | $4,270 | ||
12BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 2.68 0.08 up from 2004 | 247 | 7% | $3,390 | ||
13Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 4.40 0.18 up from 2004 | 454 | 14% | $4,640 | ||
14Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 3.07 0.34 up from 2004 | 512 | 17% | $4,940 | ||
15Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 3.30 0.86 up from 2004 | 949 | 11% | $3,830 | ||
16Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.27Q1 | 3.22 0.34 up from 2004 | 286 | 10% | $4,590 | ||
17Austral EcologyWiley · Australia | 2.22Q1 | 2.77 0.57 up from 2004 | 235 | 9% | $3,310 | ||
18Aquatic SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.15Q1 | 2.13 0.27 up from 2004 | 116 | 8% | $4,190 | ||
19Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.99Q1 | 2.64 1.07 up from 2004 | 129 | 9% | $3,690 | ||
20Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 1.87Q1 | 2.13 0.49 up from 2004 | 223 | 4% | $3,300 | ||
21Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 1.83Q1 | 2.65 0.02 down from 2004 | 315 | 94% | — | ||
22Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 1.83Q1 | 2.63 0.21 up from 2004 | 1,574 | 95% | — | ||
23EcoscienceTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.79Q1 | 1.39 0.19 down from 2004 | 174 | 5% | — | ||
24Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.08 0.18 up from 2004 | 320 | 16% | $5,330 | ||
25Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.76Q1 | 1.82 0.21 down from 2004 | 170 | 1% | — | ||
26FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 2.63 0.32 up from 2004 | 722 | 47% | $3,297 | ||
27Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 1.99 0.49 up from 2004 | 447 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
28Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater EcosystemsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 2.06 0.45 up from 2004 | 167 | 8% | $4,730 | ||
29Journal of Avian BiologyOAWiley · Denmark | 1.57Q1 | 2.19 0.17 up from 2004 | 214 | 10% | $2,860 | ||
30WetlandsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.01 0.76 up from 2004 | 242 | 2% | $3,890 | ||
31Ecological EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.46Q1 | 1.06 0.15 down from 2004 | 201 | 6% | $3,910 | ||
32Journal of Hydraulic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.41 0.20 down from 2004 | 495 | 4% | — | ||
33Integrative and Comparative BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.91 0.36 down from 2004 | 298 | 17% | $4,243 | ||
34Animal ConservationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 2.07 0.93 down from 2004 | 130 | 13% | $4,430 | ||
35Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.42Q1 | 1.98 0.40 up from 2004 | 243 | 3% | $4,190 | ||
36Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.39Q1 | 1.86 0.22 down from 2004 | 842 | 9% | $3,790 | ||
37Environmental Fluid MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.34Q1 | 1.63 0.71 up from 2004 | 46 | 3% | $2,190 | ||
38OryxOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 1.59 0.36 up from 2004 | 200 | 99% | $3,550 | ||
39Population EcologyWiley · Japan | 1.29Q1 | 1.75 0.63 up from 2004 | 105 | 13% | $3,000 | ||
40Journal of MammalogyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 1.64 0.22 up from 2004 | 529 | 29% | $2,988 | ||
41Mammal ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 2.52 0.61 up from 2004 | 71 | 8% | $4,100 | ||
42Journal of Experimental BiologyThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 2.22 0.19 down from 2004 | 1,639 | 33% | — | ||
43Journal of International Wildlife Law & PolicyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 1.03 0.40 up from 2004 | 74 | 3% | — | ||
44ParasitologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 2.11 0.35 down from 2004 | 499 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
45Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 1.19Q1 | 1.01 0.34 up from 2004 | 660 | 10% | $3,970 | ||
46Journal of ZoologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 1.46 0.15 down from 2004 | 460 | 7% | $4,430 | ||
47Canadian Journal of ZoologyNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.13Q1 | 1.41 0.16 down from 2004 | 704 | 3% | — | ||
48Archiv für HydrobiologieSchweizerbart science publishers · Germany | 1.10Q1 | 1.39 0.59 up from 2004 | 198 | 8% | — | ||
49The Rangeland JournalCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.07Q1 | 0.58 0.10 down from 2004 | 57 | 87% | — | ||
50Bulletin of Marine ScienceRosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science · United States | 1.06Q2 | 1.19 0.28 up from 2004 | 49 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology194
- Global and Planetary Change102
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis56
- Nature and Landscape Conservation43
- Water Science and Technology43
- Pollution33
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law29
- Environmental Engineering28
- Waste Management and Disposal13
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
62 additional Ecology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 194
- Window papers (baseline)
- 50,630 +13.1% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 0.643 +0.9% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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.