Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal rankings 2018
148 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics has 148 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2017 to 0.61, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.26. The top three are Ecology Letters, Cladistics, and Functional Ecology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
148 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 6.20Q1 | 9.88 0.40 down from 2017 | 452 | 47% | $5,300 | ||
2CladisticsWiley · United States | 3.27Q1 | 6.92 0.79 up from 2017 | 120 | 39% | $3,960 | ||
3Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 5.19 0.03 down from 2017 | 599 | 58% | $3,000 | ||
4Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 5.50 0.36 down from 2017 | 1,698 | 99% | — | ||
5The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.48Q1 | 4.12 0.32 down from 2017 | 513 | 42% | — | ||
6Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 4.58 0.26 up from 2017 | 154 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
7Botanical Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 4.47 0.43 up from 2017 | 373 | 17% | $3,541 | ||
8Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 3.95 0.14 down from 2017 | 670 | 100% | — | ||
9OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 3.37 0.25 down from 2017 | 527 | 40% | $3,640 | ||
10Systematic EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 3.43 0.05 down from 2017 | 157 | 23% | $4,520 | ||
11The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 3.42 0.14 down from 2017 | 43 | 44% | $3,790 | ||
12Basic and Applied EcologyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 2.05Q1 | 3.51 0.98 up from 2017 | 209 | 36% | $1,800 | ||
13EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 2.01Q1 | 3.54 0.31 down from 2017 | 767 | 38% | $3,214 | ||
14Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 3.12 0.06 up from 2017 | 1,076 | 43% | $2,740 | ||
15Evolutionary EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 3.59 1.03 up from 2017 | 186 | 29% | $2,590 | ||
16Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 1.94Q1 | 3.80 0.79 down from 2017 | 915 | 42% | $3,830 | ||
17Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 1.92Q1 | 3.06 0.06 up from 2017 | 140 | 27% | $3,570 | ||
18Animal CognitionOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.86Q1 | 3.68 0.25 up from 2017 | 309 | 49% | $3,390 | ||
19Journal of Systematics and EvolutionWiley · China | 1.84Q1 | 3.86 0.09 up from 2017 | 164 | 42% | $3,000 | ||
20Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 2.92 0.04 down from 2017 | 638 | 47% | $3,906 | ||
21BiotropicaWiley · United States | 1.79Q1 | 3.30 0.77 up from 2017 | 309 | 26% | $2,630 | ||
22ApidologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 2.30 0.41 down from 2017 | 216 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
23American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.77 0.27 down from 2017 | 591 | 85% | $2,660 | ||
24Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.68Q1 | 14.59 1.37 up from 2017 | 79 | 63% | — | ||
25Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 2.96 0.54 up from 2017 | 141 | 46% | $3,490 | ||
26Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 1.62Q1 | 2.75 0.07 up from 2017 | 618 | 53% | $3,123 | ||
27The Quarterly Review of BiologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.60Q1 | 2.93 0.99 up from 2017 | 62 | 3% | — | ||
28Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 2.66 0.12 down from 2017 | 553 | 27% | $3,590 | ||
29International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and ManagementOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 1.59 0.54 up from 2017 | 152 | 100% | $1,839 | ||
30Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden · United States | 1.49Q1 | 2.30 1.47 down from 2017 | 64 | 16% | — | ||
31Insect Conservation and DiversityWiley · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 2.25 0.26 down from 2017 | 169 | 19% | $4,750 | ||
32Ecological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.11 0.32 down from 2017 | 306 | 22% | $4,410 | ||
33Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 2.29 0.42 down from 2017 | 670 | 27% | $3,541 | ||
34Zoologica ScriptaWiley · Sweden | 1.36Q1 | 2.59 0.10 up from 2017 | 165 | 38% | $4,100 | ||
35Alpine BotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.30Q1 | 2.61 0.22 up from 2017 | 49 | 44% | $4,390 | ||
36Die NaturwissenschaftenSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.29Q1 | 2.51 0.19 up from 2017 | 274 | 41% | $3,790 | ||
37Behavioural ProcessesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 2.43 0.47 up from 2017 | 592 | 31% | $3,550 | ||
38Organisms Diversity & EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.21Q2 | 2.08 0.40 down from 2017 | 151 | 66% | $3,690 | ||
39Physiological and Biochemical ZoologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.19Q2 | 2.23no change | 179 | 21% | — | ||
40Zoological LettersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 2.45 1.00 down from 2017 | 82 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
41EthologyWiley · Germany | 1.10Q2 | 1.50 0.20 down from 2017 | 342 | 27% | $4,650 | ||
42BASEOAPresses Agronomiques de Gembloux · Belgium | 1.02Q2 | 1.75 0.61 up from 2017 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
43Review of Palaeobotany and PalynologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.01Q2 | 2.00 0.14 up from 2017 | 327 | 23% | $3,260 | ||
44FloraElsevier BV · Germany | 1.00Q2 | 1.64 0.06 up from 2017 | 392 | 17% | $2,900 | ||
45Acta ChiropterologicaMuseum and Institute of Zoology · Poland | 1.00Q2 | 1.65 0.21 up from 2017 | 110 | 43% | — | ||
46International Journal of Plant SciencesUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 0.99Q2 | 1.49 0.12 down from 2017 | 188 | 25% | — | ||
47BehaviourBrill · Netherlands | 0.98Q2 | 1.59 0.25 down from 2017 | 251 | 19% | — | ||
48Journal of Pollination EcologyOAEnviroquest Ltd. · Canada | 0.97Q2 | 1.00 0.58 down from 2017 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Insect ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.95Q2 | 1.63 0.10 down from 2017 | 284 | 40% | $3,990 | ||
50Plant Systematics and EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.89Q2 | 1.67 0.10 up from 2017 | 295 | 23% | $3,990 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics highlighted.
- Plant Science571
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics148
- Food Science146
- Animal Science and Zoology59
- Insect Science54
- Aquatic Science44
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Soil Science39
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences32
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
34 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 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 148
- Window papers (baseline)
- 73,117 +4.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.608 -11.3% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.