Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Nature and Landscape Conservation journal rankings 2021
57 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation has 57 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2020 to 0.74, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.99. The top three are Ecological Monographs, Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, and Journal of Ecology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
57 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 4.00Q1 | 8.75 1.34 down from 2020 | 133 | 49% | $3,970 | ||
2Reviews in Fisheries Science & AquacultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.44Q1 | 12.25 4.58 up from 2020 | 86 | 37% | — | ||
3Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 6.74 0.29 up from 2020 | 628 | 77% | $3,610 | ||
4Reviews in Fish Biology and FisheriesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.52Q1 | 7.92 2.73 up from 2020 | 109 | 64% | $4,690 | ||
5Forest EcosystemsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.64Q1 | 5.10 0.52 up from 2020 | 155 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
6Applied Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.92 0.56 up from 2020 | 186 | 47% | $3,600 | ||
7Plant Ecology & DiversityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 3.35 0.73 up from 2020 | 118 | 38% | — | ||
8Journal of Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 3.57 0.92 up from 2020 | 354 | 53% | $3,600 | ||
9Annals of Forest ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 1.27Q1 | 3.82 0.67 up from 2020 | 326 | 98% | $2,390 | ||
10European Journal of Forest ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q1 | 3.18 0.33 up from 2020 | 242 | 52% | $2,590 | ||
11New ForestsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.07Q1 | 2.84 0.56 up from 2020 | 183 | 30% | $3,790 | ||
12Ecology Of Freshwater FishWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q1 | 2.36 0.47 up from 2020 | 183 | 31% | $4,150 | ||
13River Research and ApplicationsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q1 | 3.07 0.44 up from 2020 | 484 | 32% | $4,110 | ||
14Acta OecologicaElsevier BV · France | 0.99Q1 | 2.37 0.46 up from 2020 | 275 | 23% | $3,210 | ||
15Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.99Q1 | 2.79 0.29 up from 2020 | 489 | 75% | — | ||
16Fisheries Management and EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 2.34 0.46 up from 2020 | 180 | 39% | $4,430 | ||
17Forestry An International Journal of Forest ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 2.94 0.51 up from 2020 | 180 | 46% | $3,810 | ||
18Journal of Fish BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 2.63 0.53 up from 2020 | 1,029 | 30% | $4,480 | ||
19Journal of Tropical EcologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.74 0.18 up from 2020 | 108 | 35% | $3,550 | ||
20Marine and Freshwater ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.83Q2 | 2.39 0.11 up from 2020 | 534 | 44% | — | ||
21Plant EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.81Q2 | 1.91 0.09 down from 2020 | 292 | 34% | $4,090 | ||
22Environmental ValuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.50 0.12 down from 2020 | 200 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
23Transactions of the American Fisheries SocietyWiley · United States | 0.80Q2 | 2.03 0.31 up from 2020 | 229 | 29% | $3,500 | ||
24Ecological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.79Q2 | 2.23 0.12 down from 2020 | 301 | 36% | $3,000 | ||
25ZoologyElsevier BV · Germany | 0.79Q2 | 1.99 0.44 down from 2020 | 183 | 33% | $4,101 | ||
26Journal of EcohydraulicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 2.02 0.59 up from 2020 | 59 | 46% | — | ||
27Environmental Biology of FishesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.75Q2 | 1.75 0.05 down from 2020 | 329 | 19% | $2,490 | ||
28Annals of Forest ResearchOA‘Marin Drăcea’ National Research-Development Institute in Forestry · Romania | 0.74Q2 | 1.96 0.06 up from 2020 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
29Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.74Q2 | 2.21 0.12 down from 2020 | 512 | 68% | — | ||
| 0.72Q3 | 1.97 0.12 down from 2020 | 245 | 100% | — | |||
31Chelonian Conservation and BiologyOAAllen Press · United States | 0.72Q3 | 1.26 0.29 down from 2020 | 112 | 100% | — | ||
32Scandinavian Journal of Forest ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 1.74 0.55 down from 2020 | 194 | 35% | — | ||
33New Zealand journal of forestry scienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.69Q3 | 1.35 0.62 down from 2020 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of Plant EcologyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 1.93 0.57 up from 2020 | 224 | 77% | $2,190 | ||
35Tropical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.64Q3 | 1.91 0.70 up from 2020 | 129 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
36Silva FennicaOAFinnish Society of Forest Science · Finland | 0.63Q3 | 1.55 0.49 down from 2020 | 140 | 100% | $862 | ||
37Forest SystemsOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.61Q3 | 1.58 0.22 down from 2020 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
38International Journal of Forestry ResearchOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.68 0.46 down from 2020 | 49 | 100% | $860 | ||
39CopeiaAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.64 0.37 up from 2020 | 232 | — | — | ||
40San Francisco Estuary and Watershed ScienceOAeScholarship Publishing, University of California · United States | 0.58Q3 | 1.65 1.01 down from 2020 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
41Journal of Forest ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.50Q3 | 1.63 0.42 up from 2020 | 167 | 100% | — | ||
42North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementWiley · United States | 0.48Q3 | 1.41 0.03 up from 2020 | 402 | 19% | $3,500 | ||
43Southern Forests a Journal of Forest ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.46Q3 | 1.09 0.50 down from 2020 | 90 | 26% | — | ||
44Silvae genetica/Silvae GeneticaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.45Q4 | 1.27 0.17 up from 2020 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
45Journal of Fish and Wildlife ManagementOAUnited States | 0.41Q4 | 0.99 0.13 up from 2020 | 190 | 100% | — | ||
46FisheriesWiley · United States | 0.41Q4 | 0.94 0.19 up from 2020 | 462 | 15% | $3,500 | ||
47Ichthyological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.37Q4 | 1.05 0.20 up from 2020 | 165 | 12% | $2,390 | ||
48Madera y BosquesOAMexico | 0.29Q4 | 0.82 0.15 up from 2020 | 233 | 100% | — | ||
49Northeastern NaturalistEagle Hill Institute · United States | 0.25Q4 | 0.56 0.12 down from 2020 | 221 | 4% | — | ||
50Forestry Research and Engineering International JournalOAMedCrave Group · United States | 0.21Q4 | 0.31 0.07 down from 2020 | 97 | — | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Nature and Landscape Conservation highlighted.
- Ecology279
- Global and Planetary Change221
- Water Science and Technology101
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis93
- Pollution58
- Nature and Landscape Conservation57
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law52
- Environmental Engineering47
- Waste Management and Disposal22
- Environmental Chemistry8
- Ecological Modeling7
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
16 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 57
- Window papers (baseline)
- 40,508 -1.4% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.74 -18.0% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.