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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	26
2	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	20
3	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	17
4	Ecological Monographs	14
5	Biological Conservation	11
-	Microbial Ecology	11
7	Journal of Applied Ecology	10
-	Journal of Ecology	10
9	Heredity	8
-	American Naturalist	8
-	Ecology	8
-	Journal of Animal Ecology	8
13	Evolution	7
14	Oikos	6
-	Paleobiology	6
-	Freshwater Biology	6
-	Journal of Arid Environments	6
-	Marine Ecology Progress Series	6
-	Oecologia	6
20	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	5
-	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	5
22	Journal of Chemical Ecology	4
-	Theoretical Population Biology	4
-	Biotropica	4
-	Pedobiologia	4
26	African Journal of Ecology	3
-	American Midland Naturalist	3
-	Journal of Wildlife Management	3
29	Polar Record	2
-	Acta Amazonica	2
-	Oryx	2
32	Journal of Natural History	1
-	New Zealand Journal of Ecology	1
-	Southwestern Naturalist	1
35	Northwest Science	0