Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Nature and Landscape Conservation journal rankings 2018
58 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation has 58 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2017 to 0.91, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are Ecological Monographs, Journal of Ecology, and Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture.
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 Environmental Science (11)
58 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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1Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 5.14Q1 | 8.39 0.64 up from 2017 | 100 | 55% | $3,970 | ||
2Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 5.80 0.65 up from 2017 | 551 | 61% | $3,610 | ||
3Reviews in Fisheries Science & AquacultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.92Q1 | 3.69 0.85 down from 2017 | 73 | 32% | — | ||
4Natureza & ConservaçãoElsevier BV · Brazil | 2.47Q1 | 5.00 1.39 up from 2017 | 62 | — | — | ||
5Reviews in Fish Biology and FisheriesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 3.93 0.35 up from 2017 | 125 | 48% | $4,690 | ||
6Applied Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 3.40 0.33 up from 2017 | 197 | 43% | $3,600 | ||
7Journal of Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 2.89 0.27 up from 2017 | 338 | 33% | $3,600 | ||
8Annals of Forest ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 1.63Q1 | 2.69 0.23 down from 2017 | 218 | 99% | $2,390 | ||
9European Journal of Forest ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 2.67 0.17 down from 2017 | 231 | 33% | $2,590 | ||
10Forestry An International Journal of Forest ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 2.81 0.20 up from 2017 | 180 | 35% | $3,810 | ||
11Forest EcosystemsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.45Q1 | 2.45 0.93 down from 2017 | 91 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
12Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.33Q1 | 2.23 0.37 down from 2017 | 661 | 73% | — | ||
13New ForestsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 1.87 1.25 down from 2017 | 157 | 37% | $3,790 | ||
14River Research and ApplicationsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 1.84 0.22 down from 2017 | 371 | 33% | $4,110 | ||
15Plant EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.20Q1 | 1.97no change | 337 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
16Journal of Plant EcologyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.72 0.08 down from 2017 | 305 | 28% | $2,190 | ||
17Fisheries Management and EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 1.95 0.28 up from 2017 | 158 | 25% | $4,430 | ||
18Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.14Q2 | 2.07 0.13 up from 2017 | 523 | 68% | — | ||
19Journal of Fish BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 2.09 0.10 up from 2017 | 873 | 21% | $4,480 | ||
20Ecology Of Freshwater FishWiley · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 1.71 0.21 up from 2017 | 167 | 25% | $4,150 | ||
21ZoologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.08Q2 | 2.14 0.04 up from 2017 | 191 | 26% | $4,101 | ||
22Silva FennicaOAFinnish Society of Forest Science · Finland | 1.03Q2 | 1.84 0.20 up from 2017 | 172 | 100% | $862 | ||
23Annals of Forest ResearchOA‘Marin Drăcea’ National Research-Development Institute in Forestry · Romania | 1.02Q2 | 1.75 0.33 up from 2017 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
24Acta OecologicaElsevier BV · France | 1.02Q2 | 1.74 0.08 down from 2017 | 265 | 34% | $3,210 | ||
25Plant Ecology & DiversityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.64 0.26 up from 2017 | 127 | 37% | — | ||
26Transactions of the American Fisheries SocietyWiley · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.44 0.31 down from 2017 | 368 | 19% | $3,500 | ||
27Environmental ValuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.13 0.03 up from 2017 | 196 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
| 0.92Q2 | 1.68 0.37 up from 2017 | 290 | 100% | — | |||
29International Journal of Forestry ResearchOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 1.58 0.11 down from 2017 | 42 | 100% | $860 | ||
30Marine and Freshwater ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.90Q3 | 1.73 0.07 up from 2017 | 555 | 22% | — | ||
31Ecological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.89Q3 | 1.44 0.16 down from 2017 | 323 | 25% | $3,000 | ||
32Forest SystemsOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.83Q3 | 1.49 0.35 up from 2017 | 149 | 100% | — | ||
33Environmental Biology of FishesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.83Q3 | 1.36 0.31 down from 2017 | 304 | 13% | $2,490 | ||
34Journal of Tropical EcologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 1.38 0.09 up from 2017 | 150 | 18% | $3,550 | ||
35Scandinavian Journal of Forest ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.81Q3 | 1.40 0.03 up from 2017 | 270 | 37% | — | ||
36New Zealand journal of forestry scienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.74Q3 | 1.35 0.25 down from 2017 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
37San Francisco Estuary and Watershed ScienceOAeScholarship Publishing, University of California · United States | 0.73Q3 | 1.47 0.64 down from 2017 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
38North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementWiley · United States | 0.70Q3 | 1.21 0.22 down from 2017 | 412 | 16% | $3,500 | ||
39Southern Forests a Journal of Forest ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.66Q3 | 1.12 0.03 down from 2017 | 133 | 24% | — | ||
40CopeiaAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · United States | 0.63Q3 | 1.07 0.20 down from 2017 | 278 | 13% | — | ||
41Chelonian Conservation and BiologyOAAllen Press · United States | 0.60Q3 | 0.97no change | 105 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of Fish and Wildlife ManagementOAUnited States | 0.59Q3 | 0.98 0.25 up from 2017 | 171 | 100% | — | ||
43Tropical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.58Q3 | 0.84 0.91 down from 2017 | 42 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
44REFORESTAOASerbia | 0.58Q3 | 0.92 0.35 up from 2017 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
45FisheriesWiley · United States | 0.54Q4 | 0.85 0.03 down from 2017 | 559 | 8% | $3,500 | ||
46Silvae genetica/Silvae GeneticaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.42Q4 | 0.82 0.45 up from 2017 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
47Ichthyological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.39Q4 | 0.63 0.10 up from 2017 | 186 | 8% | $2,390 | ||
48Scientia ForestalisOAEditora da Universidade de São Paulo · Brazil | 0.38Q4 | 0.57 0.31 up from 2017 | 247 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Forest ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.38Q4 | 0.59 0.15 down from 2017 | 209 | 100% | — | ||
50Relations Beyond AnthropocentrismOALED Edizioni Universitarie · Italy | 0.34Q4 | 0.17 0.07 down from 2017 | 82 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Nature and Landscape Conservation highlighted.
- Ecology274
- Global and Planetary Change201
- Water Science and Technology103
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis85
- Nature and Landscape Conservation58
- Pollution58
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law48
- Environmental Engineering47
- Waste Management and Disposal20
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling6
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.
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 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
- 58
- Window papers (baseline)
- 41,066 +3.1% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.91 -2.5% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 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.