Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal rankings 2011
128 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics has 128 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 0.71, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.62. The top three are Ecology Letters, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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 Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
128 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.16Q1 | 11.76 0.97 down from 2010 | 419 | 30% | $5,300 | ||
2Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 3.95Q1 | 4.32 0.38 up from 2010 | 71 | 26% | $3,570 | ||
3Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 5.74 0.25 down from 2010 | 1,561 | 100% | — | ||
4The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.44Q1 | 5.00 0.15 up from 2010 | 631 | 29% | — | ||
5Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 4.99 0.42 up from 2010 | 454 | 52% | $3,000 | ||
6CladisticsWiley · United States | 3.17Q1 | 4.16 2.07 down from 2010 | 148 | 58% | $3,960 | ||
7EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 3.01Q1 | 4.94 0.45 down from 2010 | 937 | 23% | $3,214 | ||
8Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 3.50 0.10 down from 2010 | 553 | 42% | $3,906 | ||
9Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 3.93 0.03 up from 2010 | 735 | 99% | — | ||
10Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 5.58 2.10 up from 2010 | 84 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
11OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.34 0.43 down from 2010 | 745 | 23% | $3,640 | ||
12Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 2.50Q1 | 3.64 0.59 down from 2010 | 713 | 47% | $3,123 | ||
13Basic and Applied EcologyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 2.33Q1 | 2.58 0.69 up from 2010 | 260 | 21% | $1,800 | ||
14Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 3.46 0.09 up from 2010 | 1,156 | 13% | $2,740 | ||
15Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.30Q1 | 3.18 0.05 down from 2010 | 585 | 27% | $3,590 | ||
16Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 2.28Q1 | 4.21 0.42 up from 2010 | 1,097 | 15% | $3,830 | ||
17The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 2.80 0.69 down from 2010 | 58 | 18% | $3,790 | ||
18American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.26Q1 | 3.20 0.54 down from 2010 | 619 | 35% | $2,660 | ||
19Botanical Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 5.19 2.19 up from 2010 | 379 | 19% | $3,541 | ||
20Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 2.11 0.80 up from 2010 | 134 | 22% | $3,490 | ||
21International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and ManagementOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 1.39 0.43 up from 2010 | 145 | 1% | $1,839 | ||
22Systematic EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 2.68 0.02 down from 2010 | 145 | 14% | $4,520 | ||
23Zoologica ScriptaWiley · Sweden | 1.75Q1 | 2.97 0.37 down from 2010 | 150 | 16% | $4,100 | ||
24Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden · United States | 1.73Q1 | 2.63 0.47 up from 2010 | 94 | 90% | — | ||
25Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.73Q1 | 21.25 5.66 up from 2010 | 82 | 10% | — | ||
26BiotropicaWiley · United States | 1.72Q1 | 2.33 0.15 down from 2010 | 351 | 18% | $2,630 | ||
27Physiological and Biochemical ZoologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.69Q1 | 2.42 0.46 down from 2010 | 271 | 13% | — | ||
28Animal CognitionOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 3.22 0.08 up from 2010 | 240 | 33% | $3,390 | ||
29Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 2.53 0.01 down from 2010 | 678 | 31% | $3,541 | ||
30The Quarterly Review of BiologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.64Q1 | 2.83 0.95 up from 2010 | 132 | 1% | — | ||
31Die NaturwissenschaftenSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.63Q1 | 2.58 0.20 down from 2010 | 413 | 14% | $3,790 | ||
32The Open Ecology JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.62Q1 | 2.05 0.34 up from 2010 | 46 | 83% | — | ||
33ApidologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.62Q2 | 2.64 0.16 up from 2010 | 226 | 97% | $2,990 | ||
34EthologyWiley · Germany | 1.61Q2 | 2.26 0.03 up from 2010 | 426 | 13% | $4,650 | ||
35Ecological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.60Q2 | 2.23 0.03 down from 2010 | 310 | 17% | $4,410 | ||
36Evolutionary EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.56Q2 | 1.99 0.06 up from 2010 | 219 | 20% | $2,590 | ||
37International Journal of Plant SciencesUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.90 0.77 down from 2010 | 300 | 9% | — | ||
38BehaviourBrill · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 2.06 0.28 up from 2010 | 267 | 11% | — | ||
39Arthropod Systematics & PhylogenyOAPensoft Publishers · Germany | 1.44Q2 | 2.50 0.62 up from 2010 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
40Insect Conservation and DiversityWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.94 0.92 down from 2010 | 125 | 26% | $4,750 | ||
41FloraElsevier BV · Germany | 1.31Q2 | 1.66 0.33 down from 2010 | 298 | 10% | $2,900 | ||
42Systematic BotanyAmerican Society of Plant Taxonomists · United States | 1.29Q2 | 1.67 0.53 down from 2010 | 254 | 5% | — | ||
43Review of Palaeobotany and PalynologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 1.94 0.24 down from 2010 | 308 | 17% | $3,260 | ||
44Australian Journal of BotanyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.21Q2 | 1.27 1.14 down from 2010 | 214 | 14% | — | ||
45Organisms Diversity & EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.18Q2 | 1.88 0.21 up from 2010 | 96 | 45% | $3,690 | ||
46Behavioural ProcessesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 1.76 0.09 down from 2010 | 465 | 25% | $3,550 | ||
47Arthropod Structure & DevelopmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 2.31 0.48 up from 2010 | 146 | 12% | $3,290 | ||
48Plant Ecology and EvolutionOAMeise Botanic Garden · Belgium | 1.07Q2 | 1.33no 2010 value | 39 | 100% | — | — | |
49Journal of Systematics and EvolutionWiley · China | 1.05Q2 | 2.12 0.63 up from 2010 | 176 | 18% | $3,000 | ||
50Australian Systematic BotanyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.04Q2 | 1.23 0.10 up from 2010 | 86 | 33% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics highlighted.
- Plant Science431
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics128
- Food Science90
- Insect Science48
- Animal Science and Zoology44
- Agronomy and Crop Science34
- Soil Science30
- Aquatic Science28
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences23
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
39 additional Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 128
- Window papers (baseline)
- 64,284 +32.4% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.71 -9.5% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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 | 95 | 101 | 105 | 109 | 106 | 101 | 103 | 106 | 103 | 113 | 120 | 128 | 130 | 137 | 140 | 144 | 144 | 145 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 147 | 150 | 151 | 147 | 145 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 29,541 | 33,040 | 34,931 | 36,852 | 36,959 | 39,032 | 41,685 | 45,017 | 48,550 | 53,297 | 59,000 | 64,284 | 66,440 | 66,489 | 67,535 | 70,051 | 72,548 | 73,555 | 73,117 | 72,516 | 71,728 | 72,753 | 74,109 | 73,873 | 72,350 | 73,578 | |
| Median OJR | 0.54 | 0.598 | 0.56 | 0.600 | 0.614 | 0.62 | 0.81 | 0.77 | 0.78 | 0.743 | 0.688 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 0.705 | 0.737 | 0.686 | 0.67 | 0.699 | 0.608 | 0.63 | 0.58 | 0.55 | 0.48 | 0.503 | 0.505 | 0.45 |
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.