Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Ecology journal rankings 2011
248 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 248 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2010 to 0.81, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.34. The top three are Global Change Biology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, and The ISME Journal.
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 Environmental Science (11)
248 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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1Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.04Q1 | 7.47 0.83 up from 2010 | 856 | 24% | $4,550 | ||
2Methods in Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United States | 4.85Q1 | 5.22 2.28 down from 2010 | 83 | 51% | $3,500 | ||
3The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.75Q1 | 8.49 1.12 up from 2010 | 481 | 100% | $4,153 | ||
| 4.68Q1 | 4.88 1.16 up from 2010 | 178 | 15% | $3,310 | |||
5Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 5.76 0.17 down from 2010 | 491 | 51% | $3,610 | ||
6Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 4.03Q1 | 3.63 0.66 down from 2010 | 384 | 27% | $3,970 | ||
7EcologyWiley · United States | 3.84Q1 | 4.82 1.18 down from 2010 | 1,405 | 26% | $3,970 | ||
8Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 3.82Q1 | 4.32 0.16 down from 2010 | 159 | 58% | $3,550 | ||
9Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 6.88 0.65 up from 2010 | 905 | 22% | $4,640 | ||
10Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 4.82 0.09 down from 2010 | 449 | 50% | $3,610 | ||
11Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.56Q1 | 4.89 0.60 down from 2010 | 734 | 22% | $3,970 | ||
12Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.55Q1 | 4.13 0.04 down from 2010 | 770 | 20% | $3,400 | ||
13Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 4.94 0.12 up from 2010 | 1,032 | 15% | $3,830 | ||
14EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.42Q1 | 4.46 0.44 down from 2010 | 291 | 13% | $4,790 | ||
15Ecological EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.80Q1 | 3.69 0.86 up from 2010 | 568 | 5% | $3,910 | ||
16FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 2.69Q1 | 4.15 0.08 up from 2010 | 618 | 63% | $3,297 | ||
17Mammal ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 3.35 0.37 down from 2010 | 55 | 15% | $4,100 | ||
18OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.59Q1 | 3.52 0.65 down from 2010 | 940 | 23% | $3,790 | ||
19Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 4.29 0.62 up from 2010 | 628 | 19% | $4,940 | ||
20Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.44Q1 | 3.63 0.15 down from 2010 | 260 | 21% | — | ||
21BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.36Q1 | 3.18 0.10 up from 2010 | 387 | 19% | $3,390 | ||
22Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.34Q1 | 3.47 0.53 up from 2010 | 436 | 17% | $4,590 | ||
23Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.29Q1 | 3.71 0.18 up from 2010 | 357 | 30% | $4,190 | ||
24Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 2.93 0.02 up from 2010 | 495 | 15% | $5,330 | ||
25Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 3.09 0.50 up from 2010 | 673 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
26DiversityOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.11Q1 | 2.45 1.06 up from 2010 | 76 | 100% | $2,534 | ||
27Environmental Microbiology ReportsWiley · United States | 2.08Q1 | 3.70 1.28 up from 2010 | 226 | 18% | $3,300 | ||
28Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 2.79 0.14 down from 2010 | 716 | 13% | $3,690 | ||
29Saline SystemsBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 2.48 1.34 down from 2010 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
30Urban EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.99Q1 | 2.24 0.62 down from 2010 | 104 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
31BMC EcologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 3.46 0.27 up from 2010 | 71 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
32Animal ConservationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 2.71 0.10 down from 2010 | 274 | 20% | $4,430 | ||
33Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 1.96Q1 | 3.33 0.28 up from 2010 | 1,729 | 94% | — | ||
34The Rangeland JournalCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.86Q1 | 2.00 0.11 up from 2010 | 115 | 23% | — | ||
35Journal of Arid EnvironmentsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.29 0.41 up from 2010 | 577 | 20% | $3,200 | ||
36Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 1.74Q1 | 2.91 0.18 up from 2010 | 313 | 99% | — | ||
37Estuaries and CoastsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.55 0.03 down from 2010 | 323 | 16% | $2,490 | ||
38Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.19 0.30 up from 2010 | 429 | 11% | $3,300 | ||
39Ecological InformaticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.62Q1 | 2.39 0.35 up from 2010 | 150 | 13% | $2,770 | ||
40Freshwater ReviewsUnited Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.08 0.09 down from 2010 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
41Endangered Species ResearchOAInter-Research · Germany | 1.61Q1 | 2.16 0.17 down from 2010 | 295 | 99% | $1,671 | ||
42Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.60Q1 | 2.69 0.31 up from 2010 | 714 | 22% | $3,790 | ||
43Journal of Avian BiologyOAWiley · Denmark | 1.59Q1 | 2.60 0.05 up from 2010 | 274 | 6% | $2,860 | ||
44General and Comparative EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.58Q1 | 3.60 0.29 up from 2010 | 737 | 12% | $3,540 | ||
45Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater EcosystemsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 2.17 0.30 up from 2010 | 248 | 16% | $4,730 | ||
46Rangeland Ecology & ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 1.57Q1 | 2.27 0.09 up from 2010 | 226 | 70% | $2,730 | ||
47Environmental Fluid MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 1.80 0.17 down from 2010 | 138 | 21% | $2,190 | ||
48Journal for Nature ConservationElsevier BV · Germany | 1.54Q1 | 1.90 0.10 down from 2010 | 102 | 20% | $2,890 | ||
49ParasitologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 2.80 0.10 down from 2010 | 592 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
50Aquatic SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.51Q1 | 2.50 0.51 up from 2010 | 153 | 27% | $4,190 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology248
- Global and Planetary Change145
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis67
- Water Science and Technology66
- Nature and Landscape Conservation59
- Pollution44
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law37
- Environmental Engineering36
- Waste Management and Disposal14
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling4
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.
58 additional Ecology 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
- 248
- Window papers (baseline)
- 82,207 +24.1% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.809 +8.2% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
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 | 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.