Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Ecology journal rankings 2013
258 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 258 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.35. The top three are Global Change Biology, The ISME Journal, and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
258 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.76Q1 | 8.88 0.68 up from 2012 | 779 | 28% | $4,550 | ||
2The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 5.32Q1 | 10.29 1.46 up from 2012 | 596 | 100% | $4,153 | ||
3Methods in Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United States | 4.71Q1 | 6.32 0.47 up from 2012 | 278 | 53% | $3,500 | ||
| 4.31Q1 | 4.03 0.76 down from 2012 | 255 | 13% | $3,310 | |||
5Molecular Ecology ResourcesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 6.26 2.40 down from 2012 | 394 | 17% | $5,250 | ||
6Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 3.95Q1 | 5.55 1.22 up from 2012 | 331 | 33% | $3,970 | ||
7Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 6.06 0.35 up from 2012 | 484 | 54% | $3,610 | ||
8Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 3.57Q1 | 4.70 0.03 up from 2012 | 208 | 65% | $3,550 | ||
9EcologyWiley · United States | 3.53Q1 | 5.04 0.43 up from 2012 | 1,185 | 33% | $3,970 | ||
10Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 4.99 0.03 up from 2012 | 414 | 56% | $3,610 | ||
11Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 6.33 0.24 up from 2012 | 840 | 28% | $4,640 | ||
12Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.28Q1 | 4.70 0.14 up from 2012 | 758 | 24% | $3,970 | ||
13Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 4.54 0.11 down from 2012 | 1,008 | 21% | $3,830 | ||
14Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.11Q1 | 3.95 0.41 down from 2012 | 583 | 21% | $3,400 | ||
15EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.86Q1 | 4.40 0.39 up from 2012 | 308 | 28% | $4,790 | ||
16FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 2.77Q1 | 4.60 0.13 up from 2012 | 717 | 69% | $3,297 | ||
17Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.72Q1 | 3.73 0.07 down from 2012 | 190 | — | — | ||
18Mammal ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 4.28 1.04 up from 2012 | 73 | 26% | $4,100 | ||
19BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 3.28 0.13 down from 2012 | 397 | 19% | $3,390 | ||
20Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 2.88 0.16 down from 2012 | 560 | 18% | $5,330 | ||
21OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.36Q1 | 3.54 0.24 up from 2012 | 998 | 25% | $3,790 | ||
22Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.35Q1 | 3.72 0.05 down from 2012 | 520 | 17% | $4,590 | ||
23EcosphereOAWiley · United States | 2.35Q1 | 3.45 0.36 up from 2012 | 278 | 100% | $2,430 | ||
24Ecological EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 3.17no change | 783 | 12% | $3,910 | ||
25Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 3.05 0.97 down from 2012 | 602 | 18% | $4,940 | ||
26Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.14Q1 | 2.81 0.04 up from 2012 | 644 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
27Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 3.13 0.13 up from 2012 | 708 | 27% | $3,690 | ||
28Aquatic SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.02Q1 | 3.16 0.62 up from 2012 | 159 | 40% | $4,190 | ||
29Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.00Q1 | 3.30 0.16 up from 2012 | 412 | 36% | $4,190 | ||
30Endangered Species ResearchOAInter-Research · Germany | 1.93Q1 | 2.36 0.18 down from 2012 | 228 | 100% | $1,671 | ||
31BMC EcologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 3.50 0.54 up from 2012 | 84 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
32Environmental Microbiology ReportsWiley · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.32 0.05 up from 2012 | 305 | 20% | $3,300 | ||
33DiversityOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.87Q1 | 2.02 0.49 down from 2012 | 117 | 100% | $2,534 | ||
34Tropical Conservation ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.84Q1 | 2.88 0.98 up from 2012 | 105 | 88% | $4,150 | ||
35Global Food SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 2.06 2.06 up from 2012 | 39 | 8% | $5,240 | ||
36Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 1.79Q1 | 3.16 0.22 up from 2012 | 1,755 | 97% | — | ||
37BacteriophageTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.77Q1 | 2.94 0.61 down from 2012 | 66 | 97% | — | ||
38Journal of Arid EnvironmentsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 2.33 0.45 up from 2012 | 581 | 18% | $3,200 | ||
39Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.73Q1 | 2.77 0.06 down from 2012 | 756 | 19% | $3,790 | ||
40Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 1.68Q1 | 2.07 0.02 down from 2012 | 307 | 15% | $3,300 | ||
41Aquatic BiosystemsBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 2.52no 2012 value | 31 | 100% | — | — | |
42Estuaries and CoastsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.97 0.45 up from 2012 | 319 | 16% | $2,490 | ||
43Animal ConservationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 2.31 0.18 up from 2012 | 279 | 31% | $4,430 | ||
44Rangeland Ecology & ManagementElsevier BV · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.25 0.11 down from 2012 | 235 | 64% | $2,730 | ||
45Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater EcosystemsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 2.38 0.22 up from 2012 | 238 | 13% | $4,730 | ||
46Ecological InformaticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.56Q1 | 1.96 1.05 down from 2012 | 182 | 41% | $2,770 | ||
47Urban EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.56Q1 | 2.45 0.77 up from 2012 | 158 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
48Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 2.36 0.85 up from 2012 | 338 | 100% | $2,570 | ||
49Freshwater ScienceUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.00no 2012 value | 100 | 21% | — | — | |
50NeoBiotaOAPensoft Publishers · Bulgaria | 1.54Q1 | 2.25 0.45 up from 2012 | 32 | 100% | $970 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology258
- Global and Planetary Change164
- Water Science and Technology72
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis68
- Nature and Landscape Conservation61
- Pollution48
- Environmental Engineering41
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law38
- Waste Management and Disposal16
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling5
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
69 additional Ecology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 258
- Window papers (baseline)
- 90,052 +16.8% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.84 +11.2% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.