Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Nature and Landscape Conservation journal rankings 2022
57 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation has 57 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.69, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 0.91. The top three are Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, Ecological Monographs, and Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Reviews in Fisheries Science & AquacultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.46Q1 | 10.81 1.43 down from 2021 | 94 | 47% | — | ||
2Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 2.83Q1 | 6.07 2.68 down from 2021 | 132 | 65% | $3,970 | ||
3Reviews in Fish Biology and FisheriesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.67Q1 | 7.84 0.08 down from 2021 | 139 | 55% | $4,690 | ||
4Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 5.99 0.75 down from 2021 | 666 | 61% | $3,610 | ||
5Forest EcosystemsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.62Q1 | 4.69 0.42 down from 2021 | 190 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
6Journal of Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 3.26 0.31 down from 2021 | 383 | 48% | $3,600 | ||
7Journal of EcohydraulicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 3.24 1.22 up from 2021 | 73 | 50% | — | ||
8Annals of Forest ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 1.20Q1 | 3.41 0.41 down from 2021 | 326 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
9Applied Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 3.38 0.55 down from 2021 | 202 | 45% | $3,600 | ||
10European Journal of Forest ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.14Q1 | 3.30 0.13 up from 2021 | 266 | 50% | $2,590 | ||
11New ForestsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.02Q1 | 2.49 0.35 down from 2021 | 190 | 44% | $3,790 | ||
12Fisheries Management and EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.94Q1 | 2.29 0.05 down from 2021 | 179 | 36% | $4,430 | ||
13Forestry An International Journal of Forest ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.93Q1 | 2.95 0.02 up from 2021 | 186 | 50% | $3,810 | ||
14River Research and ApplicationsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q1 | 2.45 0.62 down from 2021 | 494 | 45% | $4,110 | ||
15Ecology Of Freshwater FishWiley · United Kingdom | 0.91Q1 | 1.71 0.65 down from 2021 | 169 | 27% | $4,150 | ||
16Plant Ecology & DiversityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.69 1.66 down from 2021 | 84 | 23% | — | ||
17Acta OecologicaElsevier BV · France | 0.88Q2 | 2.11 0.26 down from 2021 | 273 | 24% | $3,210 | ||
18Transactions of the American Fisheries SocietyWiley · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.74 0.29 down from 2021 | 181 | 42% | $3,500 | ||
19Ecological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.84Q2 | 2.13 0.10 down from 2021 | 292 | 33% | $3,000 | ||
20Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.83Q2 | 2.19 0.60 down from 2021 | 475 | 77% | — | ||
21Journal of Fish BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 2.01 0.63 down from 2021 | 1,013 | 34% | $4,480 | ||
22Journal of Plant EcologyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 2.64 0.71 up from 2021 | 286 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
23Plant EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.79Q2 | 2.00 0.09 up from 2021 | 294 | 32% | $4,090 | ||
24International Journal of Forestry ResearchOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 2.37 0.69 up from 2021 | 69 | 100% | $860 | ||
25ZoologyElsevier BV · Germany | 0.78Q2 | 2.21 0.22 up from 2021 | 191 | 26% | $4,101 | ||
26Environmental ValuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 1.42 0.08 down from 2021 | 196 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
27Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.70Q2 | 2.18 0.03 down from 2021 | 488 | 76% | — | ||
28Scandinavian Journal of Forest ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 1.97 0.23 up from 2021 | 180 | 55% | — | ||
29Marine and Freshwater ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.69Q2 | 1.86 0.52 down from 2021 | 484 | 53% | — | ||
30Tropical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.69Q3 | 2.09 0.18 up from 2021 | 199 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
| 0.64Q3 | 2.04 0.07 up from 2021 | 215 | 100% | — | |||
32Silva FennicaOAFinnish Society of Forest Science · Finland | 0.62Q3 | 1.94 0.39 up from 2021 | 133 | 100% | $862 | ||
33Journal of Tropical EcologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 1.28 0.46 down from 2021 | 114 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
34Annals of Forest ResearchOA‘Marin Drăcea’ National Research-Development Institute in Forestry · Romania | 0.61Q3 | 1.09 0.87 down from 2021 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
35Environmental Biology of FishesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.59Q3 | 1.44 0.31 down from 2021 | 345 | 30% | $2,490 | ||
36CopeiaAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · United States | 0.56Q3 | 2.30 0.66 up from 2021 | 162 | — | — | ||
37Journal of Forest ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.53Q3 | 1.57 0.05 down from 2021 | 157 | 100% | — | ||
38San Francisco Estuary and Watershed ScienceOAeScholarship Publishing, University of California · United States | 0.52Q3 | 1.84 0.18 up from 2021 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
39North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementWiley · United States | 0.51Q3 | 1.17 0.24 down from 2021 | 448 | 28% | $3,500 | ||
40New Zealand journal of forestry scienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.49Q3 | 1.66 0.31 up from 2021 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
41Ichthyological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.49Q3 | 1.34 0.30 up from 2021 | 160 | 17% | $2,390 | ||
42Ichthyology & HerpetologyAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · United States | 0.49Q3 | 1.15 0.85 down from 2021 | 111 | 25% | — | ||
43Forest SystemsOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.45Q3 | 0.91 0.67 down from 2021 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
44Chelonian Conservation and BiologyOAAllen Press · United States | 0.45Q4 | 0.56 0.69 down from 2021 | 113 | 100% | — | ||
45FisheriesWiley · United States | 0.43Q4 | 0.96 0.02 up from 2021 | 427 | 18% | $3,500 | ||
46Southern Forests a Journal of Forest ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.42Q4 | 1.01 0.08 down from 2021 | 100 | 13% | — | ||
47Journal of Fish and Wildlife ManagementOAUnited States | 0.37Q4 | 0.86 0.13 down from 2021 | 181 | 100% | — | ||
48Madera y BosquesOAMexico | 0.33Q4 | 0.64 0.17 down from 2021 | 201 | 100% | — | ||
49Silvae genetica/Silvae GeneticaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.30Q4 | 0.92 0.35 down from 2021 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
50Southeastern NaturalistEagle Hill Institute · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.61 0.07 down from 2021 | 221 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Nature and Landscape Conservation highlighted.
- Ecology295
- Global and Planetary Change232
- Water Science and Technology103
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis97
- Pollution61
- Nature and Landscape Conservation57
- Environmental Engineering50
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law50
- Waste Management and Disposal21
- Ecological Modeling8
- Environmental Chemistry8
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
14 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 57
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,306 +5.3% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.69 -18.3% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.