Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal rankings 2023
151 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics has 151 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 0.86. The top three are Ecology Letters, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, and Systematic Entomology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
151 ranked journals
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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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 8.98 0.54 down from 2022 | 614 | 80% | $5,300 | ||
2International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and ManagementOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 5.27 0.17 up from 2022 | 120 | 100% | $1,839 | ||
3Systematic EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 4.80 0.16 down from 2022 | 151 | 61% | $4,520 | ||
4Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 5.08 0.20 down from 2022 | 693 | 85% | $3,000 | ||
5The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 4.09 0.68 down from 2022 | 62 | 50% | $3,790 | ||
6Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 4.51 0.72 down from 2022 | 1,782 | 100% | — | ||
7Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 1.91Q1 | 4.05 0.04 up from 2022 | 89 | 29% | $3,570 | ||
8OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 3.76 0.20 down from 2022 | 525 | 71% | $3,640 | ||
9Basic and Applied EcologyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 1.65Q1 | 3.58 0.91 down from 2022 | 288 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
10Insect Conservation and DiversityWiley · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 3.76 0.62 down from 2022 | 202 | 81% | $4,750 | ||
11CladisticsWiley · United States | 1.55Q1 | 4.27 0.39 up from 2022 | 99 | 72% | $3,960 | ||
12Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.47Q1 | 12.73 1.78 down from 2022 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
13The Quarterly Review of BiologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.45Q1 | 2.16 0.54 down from 2022 | 55 | 4% | — | ||
14Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.39 0.52 down from 2022 | 557 | 99% | — | ||
15Insect Systematics and DiversityOxford University Press | 1.43Q1 | 2.95 0.23 down from 2022 | 80 | 69% | $4,328 | ||
16ApidologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.39Q1 | 3.01 0.09 up from 2022 | 248 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
17Web EcologyOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.34Q1 | 3.29 0.77 up from 2022 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
18Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 1.33Q1 | 3.80 0.48 down from 2022 | 658 | 50% | $3,830 | ||
19Journal of Systematics and EvolutionWiley · China | 1.24Q1 | 3.32 0.51 down from 2022 | 271 | 60% | $3,000 | ||
20Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 2.97 1.19 down from 2022 | 135 | 56% | $3,490 | ||
21The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.16Q1 | 2.27 1.10 down from 2022 | 484 | 39% | — | ||
22Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.16Q1 | 2.41 0.11 down from 2022 | 783 | 65% | $2,740 | ||
23Animal CognitionOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.11Q1 | 2.39 0.75 down from 2022 | 383 | 73% | $3,390 | ||
24EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 1.11Q1 | 2.47 0.55 down from 2022 | 749 | 72% | $3,214 | ||
25Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.10Q1 | 3.14no change | 129 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
26Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.10Q1 | 2.07 0.48 down from 2022 | 488 | 57% | $3,590 | ||
27Botanical Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.06Q1 | 2.54 0.34 up from 2022 | 259 | 58% | $3,541 | ||
28Journal of BryologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.05Q1 | 1.70 0.90 down from 2022 | 106 | 22% | — | ||
29Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.04Q1 | 2.43 0.14 up from 2022 | 415 | 82% | $3,906 | ||
30Ecological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.04Q1 | 2.26 0.06 down from 2022 | 369 | 67% | $4,410 | ||
31American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 1.01Q1 | 2.32 0.60 down from 2022 | 535 | 80% | $2,660 | ||
32Alpine BotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.99Q1 | 2.78 0.40 down from 2022 | 59 | 69% | $4,390 | ||
33Zoologica ScriptaWiley · Sweden | 0.98Q1 | 2.53 0.19 down from 2022 | 149 | 54% | $4,100 | ||
34Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 0.96Q1 | 2.16 0.59 down from 2022 | 457 | 85% | $3,123 | ||
35Die NaturwissenschaftenSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.94Q1 | 2.55 0.36 up from 2022 | 164 | 53% | $3,790 | ||
36Journal of Insect ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.93Q1 | 2.22 0.03 up from 2022 | 241 | 56% | $3,990 | ||
37Zoological LettersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.87Q1 | 2.07 0.77 down from 2022 | 45 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
38BiotropicaWiley · United States | 0.86Q1 | 1.99 0.26 down from 2022 | 435 | 66% | $2,630 | ||
39Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 2.10 0.04 up from 2022 | 542 | 68% | $3,541 | ||
40Journal of Hymenoptera ResearchOAPensoft Publishers · Bulgaria | 0.85Q2 | 1.73 0.07 down from 2022 | 232 | 100% | $754 | ||
41FloraElsevier BV · Germany | 0.84Q2 | 1.99 0.06 down from 2022 | 420 | 28% | $2,900 | ||
42Insect Systematics & EvolutionBrill · Netherlands | 0.83Q2 | 1.57 0.16 up from 2022 | 44 | 83% | — | ||
43Organisms Diversity & EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.82Q2 | 2.11 0.20 up from 2022 | 165 | 71% | $3,690 | ||
44Plant Systematics and EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.81Q2 | 1.59 0.37 down from 2022 | 208 | 26% | $3,990 | ||
45International Journal of Plant SciencesUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 0.78Q2 | 1.57 0.61 down from 2022 | 157 | 18% | — | ||
46Willdenowia - Annals of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-DahlemOABotanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin · Germany | 0.76Q2 | 2.11no change | 75 | 100% | — | ||
47EthologyWiley · Germany | 0.75Q2 | 1.51 0.25 down from 2022 | 277 | 73% | $4,650 | ||
48Physiological and Biochemical ZoologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 0.72Q2 | 1.67 0.07 down from 2022 | 124 | 13% | — | ||
49Evolutionary EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.72Q2 | 1.83 0.06 down from 2022 | 179 | 48% | $2,590 | ||
50Bryophyte Diversity and EvolutionNew Zealand | 0.72Q2 | 1.47 0.17 up from 2022 | 42 | 85% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics highlighted.
- Plant Science557
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics151
- Food Science141
- Animal Science and Zoology56
- Insect Science49
- Soil Science42
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Aquatic Science36
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 151
- Window papers (baseline)
- 73,873 +3.0% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.503 -12.7% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 | 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.