Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Ecology journal rankings 2009
232 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 232 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.26. The top three are Global Change Biology, Journal of Applied Ecology, and The ISME Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
232 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.11Q1 | 6.82 0.06 down from 2008 | 745 | 22% | $4,550 | ||
2Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.43Q1 | 5.31 0.26 up from 2008 | 464 | 49% | $3,610 | ||
3The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 7.14 1.43 up from 2008 | 235 | 18% | $4,153 | ||
4EcologyWiley · United States | 4.26Q1 | 5.61 0.10 up from 2008 | 1,210 | 27% | $3,970 | ||
5Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 4.26Q1 | 4.24no 2008 value | 45 | 50% | $3,550 | — | |
| 3.95Q1 | 3.38 0.33 up from 2008 | 178 | 10% | $3,310 | |||
7Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.79Q1 | 5.21 0.12 down from 2008 | 597 | 15% | $3,970 | ||
8Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 4.29 1.14 down from 2008 | 460 | 49% | $3,610 | ||
9EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.58Q1 | 5.08 0.45 up from 2008 | 323 | 17% | $4,790 | ||
10Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.45Q1 | 3.97 0.40 down from 2008 | 813 | 22% | $3,400 | ||
11Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 3.43Q1 | 4.18 0.77 up from 2008 | 404 | 22% | $3,970 | ||
12Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 4.38 0.18 down from 2008 | 921 | 14% | $3,830 | ||
13Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 5.53 0.34 up from 2008 | 851 | 22% | $4,640 | ||
14OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.80Q1 | 3.73 0.29 up from 2008 | 910 | 23% | $3,790 | ||
15FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 4.32 0.17 up from 2008 | 711 | 68% | $3,297 | ||
16BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 3.59 0.23 down from 2008 | 321 | 24% | $3,390 | ||
17Mammal ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 3.26 0.59 up from 2008 | 63 | 13% | $4,100 | ||
18Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.34Q1 | 3.55 0.28 up from 2008 | 496 | 23% | $4,590 | ||
19Ecological EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 2.69 0.35 up from 2008 | 372 | 4% | $3,910 | ||
20Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 3.40 0.11 up from 2008 | 640 | 22% | $4,940 | ||
21Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 2.98 0.08 down from 2008 | 513 | 21% | $3,690 | ||
22Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 1.98Q1 | 3.15 0.01 up from 2008 | 1,936 | 96% | — | ||
23Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.72 0.40 down from 2008 | 243 | 20% | — | ||
24Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.86Q1 | 2.88 0.30 up from 2008 | 371 | 37% | $4,190 | ||
25Integrative and Comparative BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.83Q1 | 2.28 0.57 down from 2008 | 310 | 28% | $4,243 | ||
26Animal ConservationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 2.70 0.21 up from 2008 | 210 | 30% | $4,430 | ||
27Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 2.39 0.25 up from 2008 | 780 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
28Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 1.74Q1 | 1.99 0.69 down from 2008 | 353 | 11% | $3,300 | ||
29Aquatic SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.61Q1 | 2.23 0.30 up from 2008 | 146 | 19% | $4,190 | ||
30Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 2.26 0.36 up from 2008 | 455 | 13% | $5,330 | ||
31Ecological InformaticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 2.33 0.65 up from 2008 | 117 | 18% | $2,770 | ||
32Journal of Arid EnvironmentsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 1.61 0.09 down from 2008 | 589 | 10% | $3,200 | ||
33Endangered Species ResearchOAInter-Research · Germany | 1.53Q1 | 2.05 0.53 down from 2008 | 196 | 92% | $1,671 | ||
34Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.48Q1 | 2.36 0.20 up from 2008 | 898 | 23% | $3,790 | ||
35Estuaries and CoastsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.47Q1 | 2.34 0.22 up from 2008 | 340 | 18% | $2,490 | ||
36OryxOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 2.08 0.49 up from 2008 | 253 | 98% | $3,550 | ||
37Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary ResearchOAWiley · Germany | 1.43Q1 | 2.22 0.59 up from 2008 | 147 | 12% | $2,350 | ||
38ParasitologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.53 0.04 up from 2008 | 513 | 31% | $3,550 | ||
39Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 1.39Q1 | 2.14 0.54 down from 2008 | 337 | 97% | — | ||
40Journal of Experimental BiologyThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 2.46 0.17 down from 2008 | 1,863 | 46% | — | ||
41Austral EcologyWiley · Australia | 1.37Q1 | 1.54 1.29 down from 2008 | 514 | 20% | $3,310 | ||
42Journal of ZoologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 1.88 0.08 up from 2008 | 503 | 20% | $4,430 | ||
43BMC EcologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 1.97 0.35 down from 2008 | 57 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
44Journal of Agricultural and Environmental EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 1.24 0.60 down from 2008 | 103 | 22% | $3,090 | ||
45Journal of Hydraulic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.35Q1 | 1.47 0.16 up from 2008 | 557 | 5% | — | ||
46General and Comparative EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.34Q1 | 3.22 0.37 up from 2008 | 727 | 17% | $3,540 | ||
47Journal of MammalogyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 2.21 0.24 up from 2008 | 531 | 36% | $2,988 | ||
48Aquatic BiologyOAInter-Research · Germany | 1.33Q1 | 1.81 0.41 up from 2008 | 129 | 94% | $1,671 | ||
49IbisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 1.85 0.01 down from 2008 | 460 | 11% | $4,480 | ||
50Marine Mammal ScienceWiley · United States | 1.31Q1 | 1.82 0.27 down from 2008 | 250 | 14% | $3,400 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology232
- Global and Planetary Change124
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis58
- Nature and Landscape Conservation55
- Water Science and Technology52
- Pollution41
- Environmental Engineering34
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law33
- Waste Management and Disposal13
- Environmental Chemistry12
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
63 additional Ecology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 232
- Window papers (baseline)
- 72,124 +32.6% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.737 +1.1% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.