Journal rankings · indicator year 2007
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Subfield ranking · 2007
Ecology journal rankings 2007
205 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 205 ranked journals in 2007. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2006; Q1 starts at OJR 1.25. The top three are Journal of Applied Ecology, Global Change Biology, and Ecology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. 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 2004–2006, the window the 2007 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)
205 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 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 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 2007. | Compare |
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1Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.71Q1 | 5.70 0.35 down from 2006 | 377 | 51% | $3,610 | ||
2Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 6.38 0.09 up from 2006 | 582 | 18% | $4,550 | ||
3EcologyWiley · United States | 4.21Q1 | 5.49 0.27 up from 2006 | 1,245 | 18% | $3,970 | ||
4Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 5.43 1.26 up from 2006 | 404 | 58% | $3,610 | ||
5Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.73Q1 | 5.12 0.22 up from 2006 | 553 | 21% | $3,970 | ||
6Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.40Q1 | 3.97 0.05 up from 2006 | 868 | 13% | $3,400 | ||
| 3.25Q1 | 2.61 1.09 up from 2006 | 111 | 10% | $3,310 | |||
8EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.07Q1 | 3.64 0.14 down from 2006 | 242 | 15% | $4,790 | ||
9OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.94Q1 | 3.76 0.10 down from 2006 | 996 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
10Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 3.79 0.10 up from 2006 | 928 | 10% | $3,830 | ||
11Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 4.94 0.46 up from 2006 | 655 | 18% | $4,640 | ||
12FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 2.52Q1 | 3.42 0.08 down from 2006 | 674 | 67% | $3,297 | ||
13BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 2.94 0.32 down from 2006 | 335 | 14% | $3,390 | ||
14Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 3.32 0.28 up from 2006 | 518 | 18% | $4,940 | ||
15Mammal ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 4.02 1.11 up from 2006 | 55 | 16% | $4,100 | ||
16Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 2.88 0.19 down from 2006 | 320 | 16% | $3,690 | ||
17Austral EcologyWiley · Australia | 2.20Q1 | 3.03 0.50 up from 2006 | 350 | 16% | $3,310 | ||
18Integrative and Comparative BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 2.17Q1 | 3.98 1.74 up from 2006 | 305 | 30% | $4,243 | ||
19Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.10Q1 | 3.07 0.11 down from 2006 | 379 | 10% | $4,590 | ||
20Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 2.00Q1 | 3.25 0.46 up from 2006 | 1,643 | 94% | — | ||
21Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.88 0.47 up from 2006 | 249 | 6% | $3,300 | ||
22Journal of Avian BiologyOAWiley · Denmark | 1.97Q1 | 2.19 0.51 down from 2006 | 270 | 4% | $2,860 | ||
23Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.91 0.14 up from 2006 | 234 | 17% | — | ||
24Ecological EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 2.18 0.26 up from 2006 | 339 | 5% | $3,910 | ||
25Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.19 0.32 down from 2006 | 432 | 18% | $5,330 | ||
26Invertebrate BiologyWiley · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.13 0.54 up from 2006 | 99 | 20% | $3,590 | ||
27Animal ConservationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.75 0.25 down from 2006 | 170 | 22% | $4,430 | ||
28Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 3.00 0.43 up from 2006 | 331 | 98% | — | ||
29Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary ResearchOAWiley · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 2.40 0.17 up from 2006 | 119 | 72% | $2,350 | ||
30Estuaries and CoastsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.53Q1 | 1.84no 2006 value | 118 | 9% | $2,490 | — | |
31Aquatic InvasionsOARegional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre (REABIC) · Finland | 1.51Q1 | 2.49no 2006 value | 55 | 100% | $1,024 | — | |
32Journal of Wildlife ManagementWiley · United States | 1.50Q1 | 2.16 0.07 down from 2006 | 533 | 3% | $4,270 | ||
33Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater EcosystemsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 1.95 0.28 up from 2006 | 195 | 14% | $4,730 | ||
34Journal of ZoologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 1.89 0.07 up from 2006 | 498 | 16% | $4,430 | ||
35Canadian Journal of ZoologyNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.47Q1 | 2.02 0.26 up from 2006 | 591 | 6% | — | ||
36Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.43Q1 | 2.10 0.11 up from 2006 | 311 | 9% | $4,190 | ||
37Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.43Q1 | 2.09 0.14 up from 2006 | 996 | 8% | $3,790 | ||
38Aquatic SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.38Q1 | 1.37 0.01 down from 2006 | 177 | 29% | $4,190 | ||
39Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 1.37Q1 | 1.76 0.65 up from 2006 | 702 | 22% | $3,970 | ||
40Journal of MammalogyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 1.96 0.06 up from 2006 | 521 | 34% | $2,988 | ||
41Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.34Q1 | 1.73 0.08 down from 2006 | 728 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
42IbisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 1.37 0.54 down from 2006 | 359 | 32% | $4,480 | ||
43Antarctic ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 1.78 0.71 down from 2006 | 185 | 22% | $3,550 | ||
44ParasitologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 2.38 0.23 up from 2006 | 636 | 18% | $3,550 | ||
45Journal of Experimental BiologyThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 2.66 0.35 up from 2006 | 1,814 | 43% | — | ||
46Population EcologyWiley · Japan | 1.32Q1 | 1.45 0.01 up from 2006 | 127 | 13% | $3,000 | ||
47Journal für OrnithologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 2.39 1.34 up from 2006 | 209 | 13% | $3,990 | ||
48Journal of Arid EnvironmentsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 1.70 0.37 up from 2006 | 574 | 12% | $3,200 | ||
49EcoscienceTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.29Q1 | 1.89 0.48 up from 2006 | 178 | 4% | — | ||
50Ecological InformaticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q1 | 1.44 0.90 up from 2006 | 45 | 10% | $2,770 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology205
- Global and Planetary Change106
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis56
- Nature and Landscape Conservation48
- Water Science and Technology47
- Pollution35
- Environmental Engineering30
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law30
- Waste Management and Disposal12
- Environmental Chemistry11
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% 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 2004–2006, 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: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 205
- Window papers (baseline)
- 60,221 +26.9% from indicator year 2004
- Median OJR
- 0.736 +20.6% from indicator year 2004
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 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.