Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal rankings 2024
147 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics has 147 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 0.78. The top three are Ecology Letters, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, and Cladistics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
147 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 8.52 0.46 down from 2023 | 615 | 82% | $5,300 | ||
2International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and ManagementOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 5.29 0.02 up from 2023 | 111 | 100% | $1,839 | ||
3CladisticsWiley · United States | 2.25Q1 | 6.49 2.22 up from 2023 | 94 | 60% | $3,960 | ||
4Systematic EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 5.07 0.27 up from 2023 | 141 | 73% | $4,520 | ||
5Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 5.35 0.28 up from 2023 | 702 | 91% | $3,000 | ||
6Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 3.84 0.67 down from 2023 | 1,713 | 100% | — | ||
7Basic and Applied EcologyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 1.62Q1 | 3.83 0.25 up from 2023 | 277 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
8Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 1.60Q1 | 3.13 0.93 down from 2023 | 84 | 62% | $3,570 | ||
9OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 3.26 0.51 down from 2023 | 554 | 72% | $3,640 | ||
10The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 3.54 0.55 down from 2023 | 54 | 14% | $3,790 | ||
11Insect Conservation and DiversityWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 3.51 0.25 down from 2023 | 218 | 78% | $4,750 | ||
12Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 3.33 0.06 down from 2023 | 524 | 100% | — | ||
13Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 1.38Q1 | 3.73 0.07 down from 2023 | 639 | 60% | $3,830 | ||
14Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.37Q1 | 13.76 1.03 up from 2023 | 71 | 95% | — | ||
15Insect Systematics and DiversityOxford University Press | 1.33Q1 | 3.02 0.06 up from 2023 | 88 | 55% | $4,328 | ||
16Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.29Q1 | 3.41 0.44 up from 2023 | 154 | 51% | $3,490 | ||
17ApidologieSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.24Q1 | 2.50 0.52 down from 2023 | 210 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
18Journal of Systematics and EvolutionWiley · China | 1.22Q1 | 2.98 0.34 down from 2023 | 210 | 53% | $3,000 | ||
19Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 2.92 0.22 down from 2023 | 133 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
20Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 2.19 0.23 down from 2023 | 742 | 74% | $2,740 | ||
21Animal CognitionOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.13Q1 | 2.69 0.29 up from 2023 | 366 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
22American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 1.10Q1 | 2.49 0.17 up from 2023 | 521 | 77% | $2,660 | ||
23The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.09Q1 | 2.55 0.28 up from 2023 | 460 | 27% | — | ||
24Alpine BotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.09Q1 | 2.43 0.35 down from 2023 | 59 | 78% | $4,390 | ||
25EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 1.03Q1 | 2.23 0.24 down from 2023 | 752 | 72% | $3,214 | ||
26Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 0.99Q1 | 2.34 0.17 up from 2023 | 419 | 85% | $3,123 | ||
27Journal of Insect ConservationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.99Q1 | 2.20 0.01 down from 2023 | 254 | 58% | $3,990 | ||
28Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.99Q1 | 1.96 0.47 down from 2023 | 383 | 87% | $3,906 | ||
29Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.94Q1 | 2.09 0.02 up from 2023 | 468 | 54% | $3,590 | ||
30Botanical Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.93Q1 | 1.89 0.65 down from 2023 | 254 | 59% | $3,541 | ||
31Ecological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q1 | 1.71 0.56 down from 2023 | 283 | 69% | $4,410 | ||
32Zoological LettersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.91Q1 | 2.36 0.29 up from 2023 | 52 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
33Die NaturwissenschaftenSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.91Q1 | 2.31 0.24 down from 2023 | 168 | 47% | $3,790 | ||
34Zoologica ScriptaWiley · Sweden | 0.86Q1 | 2.15 0.38 down from 2023 | 144 | 60% | $4,100 | ||
35Journal of Hymenoptera ResearchOAPensoft Publishers · Bulgaria | 0.82Q1 | 1.76 0.03 up from 2023 | 245 | 100% | $754 | ||
36Willdenowia - Annals of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-DahlemOABotanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin · Germany | 0.82Q1 | 1.89 0.22 down from 2023 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
37Physiological and Biochemical ZoologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 0.78Q1 | 1.63 0.03 down from 2023 | 110 | — | — | ||
38Evolutionary EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.76Q2 | 2.16 0.33 up from 2023 | 177 | 44% | $2,590 | ||
39BiotropicaWiley · United States | 0.76Q2 | 1.73 0.25 down from 2023 | 389 | 66% | $2,630 | ||
40Arthropod Systematics & PhylogenyOAPensoft Publishers · Germany | 0.75Q2 | 1.57 0.02 down from 2023 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
41FloraElsevier BV · Germany | 0.74Q2 | 1.95 0.04 down from 2023 | 431 | 33% | $2,900 | ||
42Review of Palaeobotany and PalynologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.73Q2 | 1.83 0.02 down from 2023 | 392 | 37% | $3,260 | ||
43Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 1.64 0.47 down from 2023 | 484 | 66% | $3,541 | ||
44Organisms Diversity & EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.71Q2 | 2.02 0.08 down from 2023 | 154 | 79% | $3,690 | ||
45EthologyWiley · Germany | 0.69Q2 | 1.40 0.12 down from 2023 | 249 | 67% | $4,650 | ||
46International Journal of Plant SciencesUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 0.68Q2 | 1.17 0.40 down from 2023 | 181 | 10% | — | ||
47Behavioural ProcessesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.67Q2 | 1.60 0.10 up from 2023 | 407 | 44% | $3,550 | ||
48PalaeoentomologyMagnolia Press · New Zealand | 0.67Q2 | 1.23 0.18 down from 2023 | 221 | 20% | — | ||
49Cryptogamie MycologieFrance | 0.66Q2 | 1.67 0.18 down from 2023 | 31 | 73% | — | ||
50New MeditOAItaly | 0.63Q2 | 1.15 0.13 down from 2023 | 125 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics highlighted.
- Plant Science550
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics147
- Food Science143
- Animal Science and Zoology58
- Insect Science48
- Agronomy and Crop Science40
- Soil Science40
- Aquatic Science34
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% 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 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 147
- Window papers (baseline)
- 72,350 -0.6% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.505 -7.8% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.