Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Subfield ranking · 2010
Ecology journal rankings 2010
235 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 235 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.76, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.29. The top three are Global Change Biology, The ISME Journal, and Journal of Applied Ecology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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)
235 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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 6.65 0.17 down from 2009 | 859 | 25% | $4,550 | ||
2The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 7.37 0.23 up from 2009 | 380 | 64% | $4,153 | ||
3Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 5.93 0.62 up from 2009 | 494 | 49% | $3,610 | ||
4EcologyWiley · United States | 4.24Q1 | 6.00 0.39 up from 2009 | 1,188 | 24% | $3,970 | ||
| 4.18Q1 | 3.73 0.35 up from 2009 | 178 | 21% | $3,310 | |||
6Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 3.97Q1 | 4.29 0.11 up from 2009 | 435 | 25% | $3,970 | ||
7Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.73Q1 | 5.49 0.28 up from 2009 | 607 | 18% | $3,970 | ||
8EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.72Q1 | 4.90 0.19 down from 2009 | 304 | 24% | $4,790 | ||
9Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 3.53Q1 | 4.47 0.23 up from 2009 | 93 | 50% | $3,550 | ||
10Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.52Q1 | 4.17 0.20 up from 2009 | 769 | 19% | $3,400 | ||
11Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 4.92 0.63 up from 2009 | 452 | 53% | $3,610 | ||
12Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 6.23 0.70 up from 2009 | 925 | 27% | $4,640 | ||
13Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 4.82 0.45 up from 2009 | 939 | 12% | $3,830 | ||
14OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.90Q1 | 4.17 0.44 up from 2009 | 906 | 28% | $3,790 | ||
15Mammal ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 3.72 0.47 up from 2009 | 55 | 20% | $4,100 | ||
16FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 2.65Q1 | 4.07 0.24 down from 2009 | 577 | 68% | $3,297 | ||
17Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.67 0.27 up from 2009 | 649 | 20% | $4,940 | ||
18BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 3.08 0.51 down from 2009 | 328 | 22% | $3,390 | ||
19Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 2.91 0.65 up from 2009 | 434 | 14% | $5,330 | ||
20Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.26Q1 | 2.94 0.61 down from 2009 | 488 | 25% | $4,590 | ||
21Ecological EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.23Q1 | 2.84 0.14 up from 2009 | 450 | 10% | $3,910 | ||
22Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.18Q1 | 3.78 1.07 up from 2009 | 230 | 40% | — | ||
23Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.07Q1 | 3.53 0.65 up from 2009 | 394 | 31% | $4,190 | ||
24The Rangeland JournalCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 2.06Q1 | 1.89 0.22 up from 2009 | 95 | 19% | — | ||
25Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 2.59 0.20 up from 2009 | 668 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
26Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 2.93 0.05 down from 2009 | 603 | 19% | $3,690 | ||
27Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 3.05 0.10 down from 2009 | 1,920 | 96% | — | ||
28Saline SystemsBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.81 1.61 up from 2009 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
29Animal ConservationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.81 0.11 up from 2009 | 257 | 41% | $4,430 | ||
30BMC EcologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 3.19 1.22 up from 2009 | 62 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
31Endangered Species ResearchOAInter-Research · Germany | 1.72Q1 | 2.34 0.28 up from 2009 | 282 | 97% | $1,671 | ||
32Urban EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.64Q1 | 2.86 1.34 up from 2009 | 98 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
33Environmental Microbiology ReportsWiley · United States | 1.64Q1 | 2.42no 2009 value | 114 | 17% | $3,300 | — | |
34Journal of Arid EnvironmentsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 1.88 0.27 up from 2009 | 592 | 16% | $3,200 | ||
35Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 1.63Q1 | 2.73 0.59 up from 2009 | 349 | 97% | — | ||
36ParasitologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.89 0.36 up from 2009 | 575 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
37Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.59Q1 | 2.37 0.02 up from 2009 | 799 | 25% | $3,790 | ||
38OryxOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 2.08 0.01 up from 2009 | 315 | 98% | $3,550 | ||
39Estuaries and CoastsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.58 0.23 up from 2009 | 336 | 15% | $2,490 | ||
40Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 1.57Q1 | 1.89 0.10 down from 2009 | 429 | 14% | $3,300 | ||
41Journal for Nature ConservationElsevier BV · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 2.00 0.93 up from 2009 | 84 | 14% | $2,890 | ||
42IbisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.82 0.03 down from 2009 | 414 | 28% | $4,480 | ||
43Biological BulletinMarine Biological Laboratory (MBL) · United States | 1.47Q1 | 2.46 0.33 up from 2009 | 203 | 5% | — | ||
44Journal of ZoologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 2.01 0.13 up from 2009 | 416 | 28% | $4,430 | ||
45Journal of Avian BiologyOAWiley · Denmark | 1.41Q1 | 2.55 0.73 up from 2009 | 354 | 14% | $2,860 | ||
46HydrobiologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.41Q1 | 2.16 0.11 up from 2009 | 1,454 | 16% | $2,490 | ||
47Journal of MammalogyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 1.92 0.29 down from 2009 | 530 | 28% | $2,988 | ||
48Journal of Comparative Physiology BSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.40Q1 | 2.44 0.09 up from 2009 | 304 | 13% | $3,890 | ||
49Aquatic SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.38Q1 | 1.99 0.24 down from 2009 | 156 | 35% | $4,190 | ||
50Journal of Experimental BiologyThe Company of Biologists · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 2.65 0.19 up from 2009 | 1,831 | 47% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology235
- Global and Planetary Change138
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis64
- Water Science and Technology58
- Nature and Landscape Conservation56
- Pollution42
- Environmental Engineering37
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law34
- Waste Management and Disposal13
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% 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 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 235
- Window papers (baseline)
- 77,093 +28.0% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.76 +3.1% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.