Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Nature and Landscape Conservation journal rankings 2020
56 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation has 56 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.85, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.00. The top three are Ecological Monographs, Journal of Ecology, and Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
56 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 4.34Q1 | 10.09 0.39 up from 2019 | 125 | 43% | $3,970 | ||
2Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 6.44 0.66 up from 2019 | 589 | 63% | $3,610 | ||
3Reviews in Fisheries Science & AquacultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.58Q1 | 7.67 3.31 up from 2019 | 78 | 39% | — | ||
4Reviews in Fish Biology and FisheriesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 5.20 1.28 up from 2019 | 122 | 52% | $4,690 | ||
5Forest EcosystemsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.83Q1 | 4.59 1.06 up from 2019 | 122 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
6Journal of Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 2.65 0.40 down from 2019 | 330 | 43% | $3,600 | ||
7Applied Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 3.36 0.74 up from 2019 | 165 | 41% | $3,600 | ||
8Annals of Forest ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 1.30Q1 | 3.16 0.80 up from 2019 | 301 | 94% | $2,390 | ||
9European Journal of Forest ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.27Q1 | 2.85 0.05 up from 2019 | 228 | 49% | $2,590 | ||
10Plant Ecology & DiversityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.11Q1 | 2.62 0.94 up from 2019 | 135 | 29% | — | ||
11Silva FennicaOAFinnish Society of Forest Science · Finland | 1.08Q1 | 2.03 0.19 up from 2019 | 152 | 100% | $862 | ||
12Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.07Q1 | 2.50 0.03 down from 2019 | 590 | 76% | — | ||
13River Research and ApplicationsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.05Q1 | 2.63 0.63 up from 2019 | 456 | 35% | $4,110 | ||
14Ecology Of Freshwater FishWiley · United Kingdom | 1.00Q1 | 1.89 0.01 up from 2019 | 186 | 26% | $4,150 | ||
15Plant EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.96Q2 | 1.99 0.15 up from 2019 | 297 | 22% | $4,090 | ||
16Ecological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.96Q2 | 2.35 0.40 up from 2019 | 315 | 33% | $3,000 | ||
| 0.94Q2 | 2.09no change | 265 | 100% | — | |||
18New ForestsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.94Q2 | 2.29 0.08 up from 2019 | 191 | 26% | $3,790 | ||
19ZoologyElsevier BV · Germany | 0.94Q2 | 2.44 0.31 up from 2019 | 157 | 31% | $4,101 | ||
20Forestry An International Journal of Forest ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 2.43 0.29 up from 2019 | 182 | 33% | $3,810 | ||
21Environmental ValuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 1.62 0.05 up from 2019 | 200 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
22Acta OecologicaElsevier BV · France | 0.93Q2 | 1.91 0.26 up from 2019 | 262 | 32% | $3,210 | ||
23Scandinavian Journal of Forest ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 2.29 0.70 up from 2019 | 206 | 32% | — | ||
24Fisheries Management and EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.88 0.34 down from 2019 | 188 | 23% | $4,430 | ||
25Marine and Freshwater ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.88Q2 | 2.27 0.61 up from 2019 | 529 | 32% | — | ||
26Forest SystemsOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.87Q2 | 1.80 0.44 up from 2019 | 99 | 100% | — | ||
27Annals of Forest ResearchOA‘Marin Drăcea’ National Research-Development Institute in Forestry · Romania | 0.85Q2 | 1.90 0.11 up from 2019 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
28Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.85Q2 | 2.33 0.46 up from 2019 | 490 | 76% | — | ||
29San Francisco Estuary and Watershed ScienceOAeScholarship Publishing, University of California · United States | 0.85Q3 | 2.66 1.23 up from 2019 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
30Journal of Tropical EcologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.82Q3 | 1.55 0.33 down from 2019 | 114 | 17% | $3,550 | ||
31Journal of EcohydraulicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.81Q3 | 1.43 0.94 down from 2019 | 46 | 46% | — | ||
32Journal of Plant EcologyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.81Q3 | 1.36 0.08 down from 2019 | 202 | 38% | $2,190 | ||
33Journal of Fish BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.79Q3 | 2.10 0.57 up from 2019 | 864 | 33% | $4,480 | ||
34Chelonian Conservation and BiologyOAAllen Press · United States | 0.78Q3 | 1.55 0.42 up from 2019 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
35Transactions of the American Fisheries SocietyWiley · United States | 0.77Q3 | 1.72 0.34 up from 2019 | 292 | 16% | $3,500 | ||
36Environmental Biology of FishesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.75Q3 | 1.80 0.06 up from 2019 | 356 | 21% | $2,490 | ||
37Southern Forests a Journal of Forest ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.74Q3 | 1.59 0.38 up from 2019 | 105 | 22% | — | ||
38New Zealand journal of forestry scienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.72Q3 | 1.97 0.79 up from 2019 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
39North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementWiley · United States | 0.57Q3 | 1.37 0.02 up from 2019 | 402 | 18% | $3,500 | ||
40CopeiaAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · United States | 0.50Q3 | 1.26 0.08 up from 2019 | 226 | 38% | — | ||
41Journal of Forest ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.49Q3 | 1.21 0.51 up from 2019 | 187 | 100% | — | ||
42FisheriesWiley · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.75 0.02 down from 2019 | 485 | 14% | $3,500 | ||
43Silvae genetica/Silvae GeneticaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.45Q4 | 1.11 0.24 down from 2019 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
44Tropical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.44Q4 | 1.21 0.36 up from 2019 | 84 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
45Journal of Fish and Wildlife ManagementOAUnited States | 0.41Q4 | 0.87 0.03 down from 2019 | 197 | 100% | — | ||
46Ichthyological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.35Q4 | 0.85 0.26 up from 2019 | 162 | 13% | $2,390 | ||
47Madera y BosquesOAMexico | 0.31Q4 | 0.67 0.28 up from 2019 | 219 | 100% | — | ||
48REFORESTAOASerbia | 0.31Q4 | 0.54 0.05 down from 2019 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
49Scientia ForestalisOAEditora da Universidade de São Paulo · Brazil | 0.30Q4 | 0.36 0.08 down from 2019 | 284 | 100% | — | ||
50Northeastern NaturalistEagle Hill Institute · United States | 0.28Q4 | 0.68 0.02 up from 2019 | 219 | 8% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Nature and Landscape Conservation highlighted.
- Ecology276
- Global and Planetary Change218
- Water Science and Technology101
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis86
- Pollution61
- Nature and Landscape Conservation56
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law48
- Environmental Engineering43
- Waste Management and Disposal21
- Environmental Chemistry9
- Ecological Modeling7
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 56
- Window papers (baseline)
- 39,325 -6.3% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.846 -13.8% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.