Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Ecology journal rankings 2014
261 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Ecology has 261 ranked journals in 2014. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2013; Q1 starts at OJR 1.32. The top three are Global Change Biology, The ISME Journal, and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
261 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.68Q1 | 8.14 0.73 down from 2013 | 917 | 38% | $4,550 | ||
2The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 5.48Q1 | 9.38 0.92 down from 2013 | 620 | 100% | $4,153 | ||
3Methods in Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United States | 5.08Q1 | 7.68 1.36 up from 2013 | 335 | 61% | $3,500 | ||
4Global Food SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.92Q1 | 4.79 2.72 up from 2013 | 61 | 34% | $5,240 | ||
5Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 4.27Q1 | 5.92 0.37 up from 2013 | 336 | 40% | $3,970 | ||
| 3.93Q1 | 4.67 0.64 up from 2013 | 356 | 19% | $3,310 | |||
7Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 5.64 0.42 down from 2013 | 494 | 69% | $3,610 | ||
8Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 3.91Q1 | 5.52 0.82 up from 2013 | 218 | 74% | $3,550 | ||
9EcologyWiley · United States | 3.40Q1 | 4.81 0.23 down from 2013 | 940 | 31% | $3,970 | ||
10Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 4.82 0.17 down from 2013 | 443 | 62% | $3,610 | ||
11Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 4.81 0.27 up from 2013 | 1,006 | 24% | $3,830 | ||
12Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.13Q1 | 4.25 0.30 up from 2013 | 557 | 37% | $3,400 | ||
13EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.06Q1 | 4.90 0.49 up from 2013 | 314 | 26% | $4,790 | ||
14Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.05Q1 | 5.77 0.56 down from 2013 | 875 | 31% | $4,640 | ||
15Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.01Q1 | 4.35 0.35 down from 2013 | 592 | 28% | $3,970 | ||
16Conservation PhysiologyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 5.00no 2013 value | 32 | 100% | $2,734 | — | |
17Mammal ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 3.92 0.36 down from 2013 | 72 | 22% | $4,100 | ||
18BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 3.30 0.03 up from 2013 | 355 | 19% | $3,390 | ||
19FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 4.09 0.51 down from 2013 | 713 | 66% | $3,297 | ||
20EcosphereOAWiley · United States | 2.41Q1 | 3.30 0.15 down from 2013 | 412 | 100% | $2,430 | ||
21Molecular Ecology ResourcesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 4.25 2.02 down from 2013 | 438 | 26% | $5,250 | ||
22Earth Surface Processes and LandformsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 3.50 0.63 up from 2013 | 480 | 28% | $5,330 | ||
23OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.36Q1 | 3.43 0.11 down from 2013 | 950 | 26% | $3,790 | ||
24Ecological EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 3.67 0.50 up from 2013 | 988 | 12% | $3,910 | ||
25Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.12Q1 | 3.42 0.29 down from 2013 | 541 | 23% | $4,590 | ||
26Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.13 0.09 up from 2013 | 613 | 17% | $4,940 | ||
27BMC EcologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 3.31 0.19 down from 2013 | 110 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
28Biodiversity and ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 3.00 0.19 up from 2013 | 626 | 24% | $3,990 | ||
29BacteriophageTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.45 0.49 down from 2013 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
30Aquatic SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.94Q1 | 2.69 0.47 down from 2013 | 155 | 25% | $4,190 | ||
31Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 3.03 0.67 up from 2013 | 766 | 100% | $2,570 | ||
32Environmental Microbiology ReportsWiley · United States | 1.90Q1 | 3.19 0.14 down from 2013 | 300 | 28% | $3,300 | ||
33Coral ReefsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.90Q1 | 3.20 0.10 down from 2013 | 396 | 32% | $4,190 | ||
34Biological InvasionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 2.81 0.32 down from 2013 | 697 | 25% | $3,690 | ||
35Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.80Q1 | —no 2013 value | 86 | — | — | ||
36Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 1.74Q1 | 3.01 0.16 down from 2013 | 1,700 | 97% | — | ||
37Journal for Nature ConservationElsevier BV · Germany | 1.74Q1 | 2.52 0.33 up from 2013 | 151 | 14% | $2,890 | ||
38Aquatic BiosystemsBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 2.87 0.35 up from 2013 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
39Freshwater ScienceUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.67 0.67 up from 2013 | 208 | 33% | — | ||
40Journal of Arid EnvironmentsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 2.00 0.33 down from 2013 | 572 | 21% | $3,200 | ||
41Marine BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.59Q1 | 2.76 0.01 down from 2013 | 761 | 24% | $3,790 | ||
42Integrative and Comparative BiologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.59Q1 | 2.62 0.37 up from 2013 | 371 | 35% | $4,243 | ||
43Urban EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.59Q1 | 2.45 0.01 down from 2013 | 178 | 17% | $3,990 | ||
44Journal of MammalogyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 2.24 0.32 down from 2013 | 447 | 43% | $2,988 | ||
45Austral EcologyWiley · Australia | 1.56Q1 | 2.17 0.13 down from 2013 | 310 | 12% | $3,310 | ||
46NeoBiotaOAPensoft Publishers · Bulgaria | 1.55Q1 | 2.62 0.37 up from 2013 | 60 | 100% | $970 | ||
47Journal of Avian BiologyOAWiley · Denmark | 1.53Q1 | 2.55 0.03 up from 2013 | 228 | 17% | $2,860 | ||
48Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.40 0.33 up from 2013 | 251 | 7% | $3,300 | ||
49Animal ConservationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.53 0.23 up from 2013 | 273 | 29% | $4,430 | ||
50Estuaries and CoastsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.22 0.75 down from 2013 | 379 | 16% | $2,490 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Ecology highlighted.
- Ecology261
- Global and Planetary Change177
- Water Science and Technology82
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis70
- Nature and Landscape Conservation59
- Pollution51
- Environmental Engineering44
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law40
- Waste Management and Disposal17
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling5
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
73 additional Ecology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 261
- Window papers (baseline)
- 94,017 +14.4% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.805 -0.5% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.