Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Nature and Landscape Conservation journal rankings 2016
62 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation has 62 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2015 to 0.99, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.35. The top three are Ecological Monographs, Journal of Ecology, and Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.
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 Environmental Science (11)
62 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 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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1Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 7.38Q1 | 8.14 1.56 down from 2015 | 87 | 43% | $3,970 | ||
2Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 6.14 0.48 down from 2015 | 490 | 43% | $3,610 | ||
3Reviews in Fish Biology and FisheriesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 3.79 0.27 down from 2015 | 114 | 31% | $4,690 | ||
4Reviews in Fisheries Science & AquacultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.39Q1 | 3.77 2.01 up from 2015 | 35 | 21% | — | ||
5Journal of Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 3.04 0.28 up from 2015 | 332 | 23% | $3,600 | ||
6Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.82Q1 | 2.85 0.04 down from 2015 | 583 | 69% | — | ||
7Plant Ecology & DiversityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 1.80 0.71 down from 2015 | 146 | 46% | — | ||
8Forestry An International Journal of Forest ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 2.34 0.10 down from 2015 | 175 | 28% | $3,810 | ||
9European Journal of Forest ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.54Q1 | 2.61 0.25 up from 2015 | 249 | 35% | $2,590 | ||
10Natureza & ConservaçãoElsevier BV · Brazil | 1.49Q1 | 2.07 0.54 up from 2015 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
11Applied Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 2.18 0.23 down from 2015 | 193 | 28% | $3,600 | ||
12Environmental ValuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 1.05 0.60 down from 2015 | 146 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
13Journal of Plant EcologyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 1.65 0.28 down from 2015 | 197 | 69% | $2,190 | ||
14Plant EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 2.16 0.43 up from 2015 | 375 | 26% | $4,090 | ||
15Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.35Q1 | 2.30 0.11 up from 2015 | 516 | 75% | — | ||
16Annals of Forest ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 1.35Q1 | 2.03 0.20 down from 2015 | 267 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
17River Research and ApplicationsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.93 0.26 up from 2015 | 339 | 14% | $4,110 | ||
18Acta OecologicaElsevier BV · France | 1.31Q2 | 1.93no change | 268 | 30% | $3,210 | ||
19Silva FennicaOAFinnish Society of Forest Science · Finland | 1.27Q2 | 1.68 0.22 down from 2015 | 153 | 100% | $862 | ||
20Fisheries Management and EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.61 0.29 down from 2015 | 145 | 18% | $4,430 | ||
21Forest EcosystemsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.18Q2 | 2.06 0.86 up from 2015 | 79 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
| 1.17Q2 | 1.62 0.41 down from 2015 | 255 | 100% | — | |||
23New ForestsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 2.15 0.39 up from 2015 | 159 | 22% | $3,790 | ||
24Marine and Freshwater ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.11Q2 | 1.91 0.19 up from 2015 | 493 | 28% | — | ||
25Scandinavian Journal of Forest ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.68 0.05 down from 2015 | 284 | 21% | — | ||
26Ecology Of Freshwater FishWiley · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 1.44 0.24 down from 2015 | 237 | 20% | $4,150 | ||
27Transactions of the American Fisheries SocietyWiley · United States | 1.09Q2 | 1.88 0.15 up from 2015 | 400 | 18% | $3,500 | ||
28ZoologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.08Q2 | 1.64 0.59 down from 2015 | 151 | 49% | $4,101 | ||
29Ecological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.05Q2 | 1.59 0.06 down from 2015 | 308 | 23% | $3,000 | ||
30Environmental Biology of FishesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.03Q2 | 1.71 0.44 up from 2015 | 338 | 15% | $2,490 | ||
31Journal of Fish BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 1.81 0.20 up from 2015 | 825 | 24% | $4,480 | ||
32Journal of Tropical EcologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.98Q3 | 1.26 0.19 up from 2015 | 228 | 18% | $3,550 | ||
33Forest SystemsOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.92Q3 | 1.46 0.24 up from 2015 | 172 | 100% | — | ||
34International Journal of Forestry ResearchOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.88Q3 | 1.06 0.27 down from 2015 | 73 | 100% | $860 | ||
35North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementWiley · United States | 0.78Q3 | 1.41 0.30 up from 2015 | 367 | 11% | $3,500 | ||
36Chelonian Conservation and BiologyOAAllen Press · United States | 0.74Q3 | 1.07 0.35 up from 2015 | 115 | 100% | — | ||
37Annals of Forest ResearchOA‘Marin Drăcea’ National Research-Development Institute in Forestry · Romania | 0.72Q3 | 1.14 0.05 up from 2015 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
38New Zealand journal of forestry scienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.68Q3 | 1.45 0.08 down from 2015 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
39San Francisco Estuary and Watershed ScienceOAeScholarship Publishing, University of California · United States | 0.66Q3 | 2.00 1.24 up from 2015 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
40Ichthyological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.62Q3 | 1.16 0.20 up from 2015 | 174 | 12% | $2,390 | ||
41CopeiaAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · United States | 0.61Q3 | 1.01 0.03 up from 2015 | 284 | 9% | — | ||
42FisheriesWiley · United States | 0.60Q3 | 0.79 0.23 up from 2015 | 561 | 5% | $3,500 | ||
43Southern Forests a Journal of Forest ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.59Q3 | 1.15 0.35 up from 2015 | 103 | 12% | — | ||
44Journal of Fish and Wildlife ManagementOAUnited States | 0.52Q3 | 0.77 0.03 down from 2015 | 140 | 6% | — | ||
45Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of PhiladelphiaAcademy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University · United States | 0.48Q3 | 1.12 0.32 up from 2015 | 41 | 7% | — | ||
46Northeastern NaturalistEagle Hill Institute · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.64 0.16 down from 2015 | 220 | 10% | — | ||
47Northern Journal of Applied ForestryOxford University Press · United States | 0.41Q3 | —no 2015 value | 30 | — | — | ||
48Western Journal of Applied ForestryOxford University Press · United States | 0.41Q4 | —no 2015 value | 32 | — | — | ||
49Journal of Forest ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.41Q4 | 0.63 0.05 up from 2015 | 205 | 100% | — | ||
50Advances in LimnologyInternational Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology · Germany | 0.38Q4 | 0.48 0.01 up from 2015 | 49 | — | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Nature and Landscape Conservation highlighted.
- Ecology276
- Global and Planetary Change193
- Water Science and Technology95
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis76
- Nature and Landscape Conservation62
- Pollution56
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law45
- Environmental Engineering42
- Waste Management and Disposal19
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling5
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.
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 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
- 62
- Window papers (baseline)
- 41,378 +13.9% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.99 -5.8% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 |
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| 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.