Ecology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	37
2	Landscape and Urban Planning	29
3	Global Change Biology	23
4	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	22
5	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	18
6	Landscape Ecology	15
-	Ecological Economics	15
-	Ecology Letters	15
9	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	14
10	Microbial Ecology	13
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	13
12	Global Ecology and Biogeography	12
-	Ecological Monographs	12
14	Biological Conservation	11
-	Functional Ecology	11
-	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	11
-	Journal of Ecology	11
18	Ecological Engineering	10
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	10
-	Conservation Biology	10
-	Ecological Applications	10
22	Ecography	9
-	Ecology	9
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	9
-	Molecular Ecology	9
-	Basic and Applied Ecology	9
27	Mammal Review	8
-	American Naturalist	8
-	Diversity and Distributions	8
-	Journal of Animal Ecology	8
31	Ecological Modelling	7
-	Applied Vegetation Science	7
-	Biodiversity and Conservation	7
-	Ecosystems	7
-	Evolution	7
36	Oecologia	6
-	Freshwater Biology	6
-	Journal of Biogeography	6
-	Oikos	6
-	Paleobiology	6
-	Animal Conservation	6
-	Biological Invasions	6
-	Chemistry and Ecology	6
-	Diversity-Basel	6
-	Heredity	6
46	Pedobiologia	5
-	Rangeland Journal	5
-	Urban Ecosystems	5
-	Wetlands	5
-	Behavioral Ecology	5

-	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	5
-	Ecological Complexity	5
-	Ecotoxicology	5
-	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	5
-	Journal of Vegetation Science	5
-	Marine Ecology Progress Series	5
-	Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics	5
-	Rangeland Ecology & Management	5
-	Restoration Ecology	5
-	Tropical Ecology	5
-	Wildlife Research	5
-	Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	5
-	Flora	5
-	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment	5
-	Journal of Arid Environments	5
-	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	5
67	Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology	4
-	Aquatic Ecology	4
-	Austral Ecology	4
-	Evolutionary Ecology	4
-	Journal of Freshwater Ecology	4
-	Plant Ecology	4
-	Polar Biology	4
-	Theoretical Population Biology	4
-	Environmental Biology of Fishes	4
76	Phytocoenologia	3
-	Biotropica	3
-	Ecological Research	3
-	Ecoscience	3
-	Polar Research	3
-	African Journal of Ecology	3
-	Ecological Management & Restoration	3
-	Journal of Tropical Ecology	3
-	Journal of Wildlife Management	3
85	Oryx	2
-	Polar Record	2
-	Russian Journal of Ecology	2
-	African Journal of Range & Forage Science	2
-	Chemoecology	2
-	Acta Amazonica	2
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	2
-	Journal of Natural History	2
93	Natural Areas Journal	1
-	Northeastern Naturalist	1
-	Plant Species Biology	1
-	Polish Journal of Ecology	1
-	Southwestern Naturalist	1
-	New Zealand Journal of Ecology	1
-	Northwest Science	1
-	Population Ecology	1
-	Southeastern Naturalist	1
-	Western North American Naturalist	1
-	Ecological Restoration	1