Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Nature and Landscape Conservation journal rankings 2015
61 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation has 61 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.15 on 2014 to 0.93, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.33. The top three are Ecological Monographs, Journal of Ecology, and Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
61 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 6.31Q1 | 9.70 1.16 up from 2014 | 75 | 28% | $3,970 | ||
2Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 6.62 0.27 up from 2014 | 446 | 66% | $3,610 | ||
3Reviews in Fish Biology and FisheriesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 4.06 0.64 up from 2014 | 128 | 25% | $4,690 | ||
4Journal of Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 2.76 0.65 down from 2014 | 373 | 23% | $3,600 | ||
5Journal of Plant EcologyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 1.94 0.99 down from 2014 | 174 | 67% | $2,190 | ||
6Forestry An International Journal of Forest ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 2.44 0.73 up from 2014 | 193 | 54% | $3,810 | ||
7Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.59Q1 | 2.90 0.02 up from 2014 | 569 | 44% | — | ||
8Fisheries Management and EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.90 0.42 down from 2014 | 143 | 8% | $4,430 | ||
9Applied Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 2.41 0.24 up from 2014 | 208 | 30% | $3,600 | ||
10European Journal of Forest ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.46Q1 | 2.36 0.03 up from 2014 | 257 | 32% | $2,590 | ||
11Natureza & ConservaçãoElsevier BV · Brazil | 1.43Q1 | 1.53 0.26 down from 2014 | 103 | 100% | — | ||
12Annals of Forest ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 1.38Q1 | 2.23 0.37 up from 2014 | 273 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
13Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.36Q1 | 2.19 0.18 up from 2014 | 516 | 33% | — | ||
14Plant Ecology & DiversityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 2.51 0.30 up from 2014 | 178 | 24% | — | ||
15Plant EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 1.72 0.11 down from 2014 | 410 | 14% | $4,090 | ||
16Silva FennicaOAFinnish Society of Forest Science · Finland | 1.33Q1 | 1.90 0.47 up from 2014 | 142 | 100% | $862 | ||
17New ForestsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.32Q2 | 1.75 0.43 down from 2014 | 156 | 31% | $3,790 | ||
18ZoologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.30Q2 | 2.22 0.15 up from 2014 | 152 | 20% | $4,101 | ||
19Acta OecologicaElsevier BV · France | 1.28Q2 | 1.92 0.09 up from 2014 | 262 | 26% | $3,210 | ||
| 1.27Q2 | 2.02 0.20 down from 2014 | 213 | 100% | — | |||
21River Research and ApplicationsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 1.66 0.24 down from 2014 | 314 | 13% | $4,110 | ||
22Environmental ValuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.65 0.33 up from 2014 | 104 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
23Ecology Of Freshwater FishWiley · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.68 0.08 up from 2014 | 247 | 16% | $4,150 | ||
24Journal of Fish BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 1.61 0.66 down from 2014 | 872 | 15% | $4,480 | ||
25Ecological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.16Q2 | 1.65 0.17 up from 2014 | 317 | 19% | $3,000 | ||
26Scandinavian Journal of Forest ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 1.73 0.30 up from 2014 | 274 | 16% | — | ||
27Transactions of the American Fisheries SocietyWiley · United States | 1.11Q2 | 1.73 0.07 down from 2014 | 456 | 21% | $3,500 | ||
28Marine and Freshwater ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.07Q2 | 1.71 0.22 down from 2014 | 352 | 24% | — | ||
29International Journal of Forestry ResearchOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 1.33 0.44 down from 2014 | 104 | 100% | $860 | ||
30Environmental Biology of FishesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 1.27 0.20 down from 2014 | 378 | 12% | $2,490 | ||
31Forest EcosystemsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.93Q2 | 1.20 1.05 up from 2014 | 44 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
32Journal of Tropical EcologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.91Q3 | 1.07 0.02 down from 2014 | 236 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
33ISRN EcologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.90Q3 | 1.50 0.37 up from 2014 | 32 | — | — | ||
34Forest SystemsOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.88Q3 | 1.23 0.16 up from 2014 | 177 | 100% | — | ||
35New Zealand journal of forestry scienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.83Q3 | 1.53 0.36 up from 2014 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
36Annals of Forest ResearchOA‘Marin Drăcea’ National Research-Development Institute in Forestry · Romania | 0.79Q3 | 1.08 0.15 down from 2014 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
37North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementWiley · United States | 0.75Q3 | 1.11 0.11 down from 2014 | 382 | 7% | $3,500 | ||
38Southern Forests a Journal of Forest ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.59Q3 | 0.79 0.42 down from 2014 | 94 | 11% | — | ||
39CopeiaAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · United States | 0.57Q3 | 0.97 0.08 up from 2014 | 300 | 6% | — | ||
40Chelonian Conservation and BiologyOAAllen Press · United States | 0.56Q3 | 0.72 0.17 down from 2014 | 125 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of Fish and Wildlife ManagementOAUnited States | 0.55Q3 | 0.80 0.10 down from 2014 | 129 | 30% | — | ||
42Northern Journal of Applied ForestryOxford University Press · United States | 0.54Q3 | 0.73 0.15 up from 2014 | 60 | — | — | ||
43Southern Journal of Applied ForestryOxford University Press · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.91 0.40 up from 2014 | 69 | — | — | ||
44Northeastern NaturalistEagle Hill Institute · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.80 0.10 up from 2014 | 219 | 6% | — | ||
45Ichthyological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.49Q3 | 0.96 0.13 up from 2014 | 182 | 8% | $2,390 | ||
46San Francisco Estuary and Watershed ScienceOAeScholarship Publishing, University of California · United States | 0.49Q3 | 0.76 0.17 up from 2014 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
47Western Journal of Applied ForestryOxford University Press · United States | 0.49Q4 | 0.66 0.17 up from 2014 | 64 | — | — | ||
48Advances in LimnologyInternational Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology · Germany | 0.48Q4 | 0.47 0.01 down from 2014 | 83 | — | — | ||
49Journal of Forest ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.46Q4 | 0.58 0.14 down from 2014 | 194 | 100% | — | ||
50Acta silvatica & lignaria HungaricaOADe Gruyter Open · Hungary | 0.46Q4 | 0.32 0.49 down from 2014 | 39 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Nature and Landscape Conservation highlighted.
- Ecology273
- Global and Planetary Change186
- Water Science and Technology87
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis77
- Nature and Landscape Conservation61
- Pollution53
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law43
- Environmental Engineering42
- Waste Management and Disposal17
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling5
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
17 additional Nature and Landscape Conservation journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 61
- Window papers (baseline)
- 39,843 +14.7% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.93 -3.0% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 | 37 | 43 | 44 | 46 | 45 | 43 | 45 | 48 | 51 | 55 | 56 | 59 | 59 | 61 | 59 | 61 | 62 | 59 | 58 | 57 | 56 | 57 | 57 | 56 | 55 | 55 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 18,347 | 20,763 | 21,743 | 23,193 | 23,116 | 24,463 | 25,877 | 27,593 | 29,397 | 30,782 | 31,962 | 33,229 | 34,737 | 36,324 | 38,095 | 39,843 | 41,378 | 41,977 | 41,066 | 40,160 | 39,325 | 40,508 | 42,306 | 42,850 | 42,160 | 40,654 | |
| Median OJR | 0.79 | 0.816 | 0.84 | 0.817 | 0.867 | 0.815 | 0.92 | 0.955 | 0.89 | 0.814 | 0.868 | 0.95 | 0.958 | 1.05 | 1.08 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.91 | 0.851 | 0.846 | 0.74 | 0.69 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.66 |
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.