Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal rankings 2017
145 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics has 145 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.36. The top three are Ecology Letters, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Functional Ecology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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)
145 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 6.90Q1 | 10.27 1.08 down from 2016 | 435 | 33% | $5,300 | ||
2Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 5.86 0.70 down from 2016 | 1,771 | 100% | — | ||
3Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 5.22 0.07 up from 2016 | 539 | 63% | $3,000 | ||
4CladisticsWiley · United States | 2.85Q1 | 6.14 2.53 up from 2016 | 117 | 34% | $3,960 | ||
5The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.52Q1 | 4.44 0.16 down from 2016 | 501 | 34% | — | ||
6Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 2.47Q1 | 3.00 0.74 down from 2016 | 127 | 20% | $3,570 | ||
7OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 3.62 0.26 down from 2016 | 569 | 33% | $3,640 | ||
8Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 4.09 0.21 up from 2016 | 712 | 100% | — | ||
9Systematic EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 3.48 0.85 down from 2016 | 162 | 24% | $4,520 | ||
10The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.29Q1 | 3.57 0.08 up from 2016 | 40 | 14% | $3,790 | ||
11EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 2.27Q1 | 3.85 0.73 down from 2016 | 770 | 30% | $3,214 | ||
12Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 2.26Q1 | 4.59 0.18 down from 2016 | 923 | 46% | $3,830 | ||
13Botanical Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 4.04 1.63 up from 2016 | 349 | 32% | $3,541 | ||
14American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.12Q1 | 3.04 0.39 down from 2016 | 606 | 44% | $2,660 | ||
15Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 3.06 0.20 down from 2016 | 1,091 | 40% | $2,740 | ||
16Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.96 0.27 down from 2016 | 682 | 45% | $3,906 | ||
17Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 4.32 0.48 up from 2016 | 190 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
18Animal CognitionOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.93Q1 | 3.43 0.44 up from 2016 | 329 | 43% | $3,390 | ||
19Alpine BotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.88Q1 | 2.39 0.34 down from 2016 | 57 | 54% | $4,390 | ||
20Basic and Applied EcologyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 1.81Q1 | 2.53 0.14 down from 2016 | 236 | 37% | $1,800 | ||
21Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 1.80Q1 | 2.68 0.49 down from 2016 | 707 | 53% | $3,123 | ||
22Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden · United States | 1.75Q1 | 3.78 1.36 up from 2016 | 47 | 13% | — | ||
23Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 2.78 0.01 down from 2016 | 574 | 28% | $3,590 | ||
24Journal of Systematics and EvolutionWiley · China | 1.70Q1 | 3.77 1.29 up from 2016 | 174 | 33% | $3,000 | ||
25BiotropicaWiley · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.53 0.19 up from 2016 | 301 | 24% | $2,630 | ||
26The Quarterly Review of BiologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.65Q1 | 1.93 0.95 down from 2016 | 57 | 3% | — | ||
27Insect Conservation and DiversityWiley · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 2.51 0.46 up from 2016 | 144 | 21% | $4,750 | ||
28Evolutionary EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 2.56 0.51 up from 2016 | 192 | 26% | $2,590 | ||
29ApidologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.64Q1 | 2.71 0.24 up from 2016 | 224 | 97% | $2,990 | ||
30Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.59Q1 | 13.22 1.17 down from 2016 | 77 | 47% | — | ||
31Zoological LettersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 3.45 0.09 down from 2016 | 60 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
32Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 2.42 0.42 up from 2016 | 184 | 36% | $3,490 | ||
33Ecological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 2.43 0.27 up from 2016 | 276 | 41% | $4,410 | ||
34Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.71 0.04 down from 2016 | 674 | 33% | $3,541 | ||
35Zoologica ScriptaWiley · Sweden | 1.39Q1 | 2.49 0.35 down from 2016 | 180 | 29% | $4,100 | ||
36Die NaturwissenschaftenSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.37Q1 | 2.32 0.01 down from 2016 | 292 | 31% | $3,790 | ||
37Organisms Diversity & EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.36Q1 | 2.48 0.29 up from 2016 | 146 | 60% | $3,690 | ||
38Physiological and Biochemical ZoologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.28Q2 | 2.23 0.13 down from 2016 | 196 | 26% | — | ||
39Journal of Pollination EcologyOAEnviroquest Ltd. · Canada | 1.25Q2 | 1.58 0.18 up from 2016 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
40BehaviourBrill · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 1.84 0.30 up from 2016 | 287 | 7% | — | ||
41The LichenologistCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.67 0.16 up from 2016 | 198 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
42Behavioural ProcessesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 1.96 0.09 down from 2016 | 596 | 28% | $3,550 | ||
43Review of Palaeobotany and PalynologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 1.86 0.22 down from 2016 | 322 | 41% | $3,260 | ||
44EthologyWiley · Germany | 1.12Q2 | 1.70 0.15 up from 2016 | 368 | 28% | $4,650 | ||
45Journal of Insect ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 1.73 0.17 down from 2016 | 330 | 30% | $3,990 | ||
46International Journal of Plant SciencesUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.07Q2 | 1.61 0.07 down from 2016 | 222 | 16% | — | ||
47HerzogiaBryologisch-lichenologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mitteleuropa · Germany | 1.05Q2 | 1.34 0.25 down from 2016 | 153 | 0% | — | ||
48Acta ChiropterologicaMuseum and Institute of Zoology · Poland | 1.04Q2 | 1.44 0.08 up from 2016 | 112 | 36% | — | ||
49Acta PalaeobotanicaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.04Q2 | 1.32 0.12 down from 2016 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
50International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and ManagementOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 1.04 0.07 up from 2016 | 125 | 49% | $1,839 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics highlighted.
- Plant Science576
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics145
- Food Science142
- Insect Science56
- Animal Science and Zoology52
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Aquatic Science38
- Soil Science37
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. 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.
39 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 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 145
- Window papers (baseline)
- 73,555 +8.9% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.699 -5.1% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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 | 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.