Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal rankings 2016
144 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics has 144 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are Ecology Letters, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Functional Ecology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
144 ranked journals
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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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 8.31Q1 | 11.36 1.53 down from 2015 | 465 | 46% | $5,300 | ||
2Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 4.00Q1 | 6.56 0.28 up from 2015 | 1,760 | 100% | — | ||
3Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 5.15 0.09 up from 2015 | 572 | 62% | $3,000 | ||
4Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 3.14Q1 | 3.74 0.32 down from 2015 | 112 | 40% | $3,570 | ||
5EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 2.90Q1 | 4.58 0.18 down from 2015 | 763 | 36% | $3,214 | ||
6The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.89Q1 | 4.60 0.55 up from 2015 | 530 | 36% | — | ||
7OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 3.89 0.06 down from 2015 | 553 | 31% | $3,640 | ||
8Systematic EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 4.33 0.93 up from 2015 | 165 | 19% | $4,520 | ||
9Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 3.88 0.06 down from 2015 | 669 | 100% | — | ||
10Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 3.27 0.48 down from 2015 | 1,079 | 41% | $2,740 | ||
11American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.35Q1 | 3.43no change | 607 | 47% | $2,660 | ||
12Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 3.85 0.25 down from 2015 | 218 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
13Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 2.27Q1 | 4.78 0.38 up from 2015 | 901 | 46% | $3,830 | ||
14Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 3.23 0.34 down from 2015 | 619 | 58% | $3,906 | ||
15The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.15Q1 | 3.48 1.94 up from 2015 | 43 | 14% | $3,790 | ||
16The Quarterly Review of BiologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.04Q1 | 2.88 1.19 down from 2015 | 49 | 3% | — | ||
17CladisticsWiley · United States | 2.04Q1 | 3.60 0.49 up from 2015 | 135 | 53% | $3,960 | ||
18Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 2.02Q1 | 3.17 0.18 down from 2015 | 745 | 52% | $3,123 | ||
19Basic and Applied EcologyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 1.89Q1 | 2.67 0.23 up from 2015 | 256 | 31% | $1,800 | ||
20Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.88Q1 | 2.80 0.04 down from 2015 | 568 | 29% | $3,590 | ||
21Zoological LettersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 3.54no 2015 value | 35 | 100% | $2,090 | — | |
22Alpine BotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.73Q1 | 2.73 0.64 up from 2015 | 49 | 35% | $4,390 | ||
23Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.70Q1 | 14.39 1.56 up from 2015 | 82 | 71% | — | ||
24ApidologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.66Q1 | 2.47 0.46 up from 2015 | 232 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
25Zoologica ScriptaWiley · Sweden | 1.61Q1 | 2.84 0.03 down from 2015 | 149 | 23% | $4,100 | ||
26BiotropicaWiley · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.34 0.19 up from 2015 | 247 | 24% | $2,630 | ||
27Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 2.01 0.14 down from 2015 | 241 | 41% | $3,490 | ||
28Animal CognitionOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.60Q1 | 2.99 0.25 up from 2015 | 347 | 38% | $3,390 | ||
29Botanical Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 2.40 0.02 down from 2015 | 349 | 20% | $3,541 | ||
30Cryptogamie BryologieFrance | 1.56Q1 | 1.64 0.42 down from 2015 | 91 | 9% | — | ||
31Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 2.75 0.41 up from 2015 | 711 | 34% | $3,541 | ||
32Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden · United States | 1.55Q1 | 2.42 0.85 up from 2015 | 58 | 18% | — | ||
33Insect Conservation and DiversityWiley · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 2.06 0.06 down from 2015 | 139 | 27% | $4,750 | ||
34Ecological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 2.16 0.22 up from 2015 | 294 | 22% | $4,410 | ||
35Arthropod Systematics & PhylogenyOAPensoft Publishers · Germany | 1.44Q1 | 2.51 1.01 up from 2015 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
36Physiological and Biochemical ZoologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.44Q1 | 2.36 0.18 down from 2015 | 205 | 35% | — | ||
37Evolutionary EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 2.05 0.11 down from 2015 | 182 | 19% | $2,590 | ||
38Australian Journal of BotanyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.34Q2 | 1.07 1.31 down from 2015 | 202 | 31% | — | ||
39Die NaturwissenschaftenSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.28Q2 | 2.33 0.13 down from 2015 | 315 | 29% | $3,790 | ||
40Journal of Pollination EcologyOAEnviroquest Ltd. · Canada | 1.25Q2 | 1.40 0.31 up from 2015 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of Insect ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 1.90 0.21 up from 2015 | 290 | 26% | $3,990 | ||
42Review of Palaeobotany and PalynologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.20Q2 | 2.08 0.05 down from 2015 | 298 | 38% | $3,260 | ||
43Organisms Diversity & EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.17Q2 | 2.18 0.12 up from 2015 | 135 | 52% | $3,690 | ||
44Behavioural ProcessesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 2.05 0.21 up from 2015 | 585 | 33% | $3,550 | ||
45EthologyWiley · Germany | 1.12Q2 | 1.55 0.32 down from 2015 | 403 | 23% | $4,650 | ||
46International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and ManagementOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.97 0.05 up from 2015 | 151 | 18% | $1,839 | ||
47International Journal of Plant SciencesUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.10Q2 | 1.68 0.20 up from 2015 | 284 | 23% | — | ||
48BehaviourBrill · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 1.54 0.34 down from 2015 | 290 | 14% | — | ||
49FloraElsevier BV · Germany | 1.02Q2 | 1.67 0.22 down from 2015 | 260 | 26% | $2,900 | ||
50Acta ChiropterologicaMuseum and Institute of Zoology · Poland | 0.99Q2 | 1.36 0.17 down from 2015 | 113 | 28% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics highlighted.
- Plant Science570
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics144
- Food Science132
- Insect Science56
- Animal Science and Zoology51
- Aquatic Science39
- Agronomy and Crop Science38
- Soil Science37
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences30
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
35 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 144
- Window papers (baseline)
- 72,548 +9.1% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.67 -4.9% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.