Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Nature and Landscape Conservation journal rankings 2023
56 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation has 56 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.68, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 0.91. The top three are Ecological Monographs, Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, and Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.
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 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 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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1Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 3.43Q1 | 8.22 2.15 up from 2022 | 137 | 68% | $3,970 | ||
2Reviews in Fisheries Science & AquacultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.23Q1 | 6.45 4.37 down from 2022 | 82 | 35% | — | ||
3Reviews in Fish Biology and FisheriesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 7.31 0.53 down from 2022 | 146 | 57% | $4,690 | ||
4Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 6.09 0.10 up from 2022 | 679 | 84% | $3,610 | ||
5Forest EcosystemsOASpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.54Q1 | 4.52 0.17 down from 2022 | 219 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
6Journal of Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 2.79 0.46 down from 2022 | 309 | 67% | $3,600 | ||
7Applied Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 2.12 1.26 down from 2022 | 222 | 77% | $3,600 | ||
8Journal of EcohydraulicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 2.88 0.37 down from 2022 | 56 | 30% | — | ||
9Annals of Forest ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 1.10Q1 | 2.98 0.43 down from 2022 | 251 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
10Forestry An International Journal of Forest ResearchOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 3.34 0.38 up from 2022 | 164 | 75% | $3,810 | ||
11European Journal of Forest ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.03Q1 | 2.79 0.52 down from 2022 | 264 | 59% | $2,590 | ||
12Plant Ecology & DiversityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.01Q1 | 2.68 0.99 up from 2022 | 74 | 25% | — | ||
13Plant EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.96Q1 | 2.44 0.45 up from 2022 | 274 | 38% | $4,090 | ||
14Environmental ValuesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.91Q1 | 1.61 0.19 up from 2022 | 159 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
15Fisheries Management and EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.32 0.03 up from 2022 | 183 | 70% | $4,430 | ||
16Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.87Q2 | 2.13 0.06 down from 2022 | 471 | 70% | — | ||
17New ForestsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.85Q2 | 2.23 0.26 down from 2022 | 187 | 27% | $3,790 | ||
18Transactions of the American Fisheries SocietyWiley · United States | 0.84Q2 | 1.94 0.19 up from 2022 | 155 | 63% | $3,500 | ||
19CopeiaAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · United States | 0.84Q2 | —no 2022 value | 84 | — | — | ||
20Ecology Of Freshwater FishWiley · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.73 0.02 up from 2022 | 152 | 70% | $4,150 | ||
21River Research and ApplicationsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 2.02 0.43 down from 2022 | 489 | 68% | $4,110 | ||
22Journal of Plant EcologyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 2.37 0.27 down from 2022 | 335 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
23International Journal of Forestry ResearchOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 2.27 0.10 down from 2022 | 101 | 100% | $860 | ||
24Journal of Fish BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 1.72 0.29 down from 2022 | 1,004 | 67% | $4,480 | ||
25Ecological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.76Q2 | 1.92 0.21 down from 2022 | 273 | 55% | $3,000 | ||
26Acta OecologicaElsevier BV · France | 0.74Q2 | 1.73 0.38 down from 2022 | 255 | 33% | $3,210 | ||
27Scandinavian Journal of Forest ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 2.40 0.42 up from 2022 | 144 | 43% | — | ||
28Marine and Freshwater ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.68Q2 | 2.10 0.24 up from 2022 | 391 | 53% | — | ||
| 0.68Q3 | 1.93 0.11 down from 2022 | 204 | 100% | — | |||
30Environmental Biology of FishesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.65Q3 | 1.66 0.22 up from 2022 | 416 | 46% | $2,490 | ||
31ZoologyElsevier BV · Germany | 0.65Q3 | 1.82 0.40 down from 2022 | 183 | 42% | $4,101 | ||
32Tropical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · India | 0.64Q3 | 1.51 0.58 down from 2022 | 218 | 15% | $3,190 | ||
33Silva FennicaOAFinnish Society of Forest Science · Finland | 0.63Q3 | 2.05 0.11 up from 2022 | 131 | 100% | $862 | ||
34Journal of Tropical EcologyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 1.23 0.04 down from 2022 | 128 | 34% | $3,550 | ||
35Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchNRC Research Press · Canada | 0.60Q3 | 1.57 0.61 down from 2022 | 439 | 71% | — | ||
36North American Journal of Fisheries ManagementWiley · United States | 0.58Q3 | 1.42 0.25 up from 2022 | 431 | 69% | $3,500 | ||
37Journal of Forest ScienceOACzech Academy of Agricultural Sciences · Czechia | 0.54Q3 | 1.46 0.11 down from 2022 | 152 | 100% | — | ||
38New Zealand journal of forestry scienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.50Q3 | 1.32 0.33 down from 2022 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
39Ichthyology & HerpetologyAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · United States | 0.47Q3 | 1.22 0.06 up from 2022 | 187 | 28% | — | ||
40Chelonian Conservation and BiologyOAAllen Press · United States | 0.46Q3 | 0.75 0.19 up from 2022 | 112 | 100% | — | ||
41Annals of Forest ResearchOA‘Marin Drăcea’ National Research-Development Institute in Forestry · Romania | 0.46Q3 | 1.12 0.02 up from 2022 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
42Forest SystemsOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 0.40Q3 | 0.89 0.02 down from 2022 | 89 | 100% | — | ||
43Journal of Fish and Wildlife ManagementOAUnited States | 0.39Q4 | 0.94 0.08 up from 2022 | 164 | 100% | — | ||
44Silvae genetica/Silvae GeneticaOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.38Q4 | 1.03 0.11 up from 2022 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
45Southern Forests a Journal of Forest ScienceTaylor & Francis · South Africa | 0.37Q4 | 0.88 0.14 down from 2022 | 106 | 24% | — | ||
46San Francisco Estuary and Watershed ScienceOAeScholarship Publishing, University of California · United States | 0.36Q4 | 1.00 0.84 down from 2022 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
47FisheriesWiley · United States | 0.36Q4 | 0.71 0.24 down from 2022 | 410 | 44% | $3,500 | ||
48Ichthyological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.29Q4 | 0.56 0.79 down from 2022 | 168 | 26% | $2,390 | ||
49Madera y BosquesOAMexico | 0.27Q4 | 0.64no change | 176 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of Herpetological Medicine and SurgeryUnited States | 0.26Q4 | 0.66 0.23 up from 2022 | 149 | 3% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Nature and Landscape Conservation highlighted.
- Ecology296
- Global and Planetary Change236
- Water Science and Technology104
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis97
- Pollution67
- Nature and Landscape Conservation56
- Environmental Engineering49
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law49
- Waste Management and Disposal21
- Ecological Modeling9
- Environmental Chemistry8
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.
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 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
- 56
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,850 +9.0% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.68 -19.2% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 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.