New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Ecology

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)
Rank Journal TQCC
1 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics42
2 Landscape and Urban Planning26
3 Global Change Biology22
4 ISME Journal20
5 Trends in Ecology & Evolution19
6 Ecosystem Services18
7 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment17
- Nature Ecology & Evolution17
9 Ecological Informatics15
- Ecology Letters15
11 Ecological Economics14
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology14
- Ecological Monographs14
14 Global Ecology and Biogeography13
15 Molecular Ecology Resources12
- Ecological Applications12
- Landscape Ecology12
18 Biological Conservation11
- Current Opinion in Insect Science11
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution11
- Molecular Ecology11
- Ecological Engineering11
23 Functional Ecology10
- Journal of Ecology10
- Microbial Ecology10
- Basic and Applied Ecology10
- Journal of Applied Ecology10
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences10
- Ecography10
- Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation10
31 Biogeosciences9
- People and Nature9
- Diversity and Distributions9
- Fire Ecology9
35 Journal of Animal Ecology8
- Ecological Processes8
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change8
- Heredity8
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology8
- Movement Ecology8
- Conservation Biology8
- Ecology8
- European Journal of Soil Biology8
44 American Naturalist7
- Neobiota7
- Ecological Modelling7
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution7
- Journal of Biogeography7
- Oikos7
- Ecological Complexity7
- Ecology and Society7
- Ecosphere7
- Ecosystems7
- Evolution7
55 Journal of Arid Environments6
- Mammal Review6
- Marine Ecology Progress Series6
- AoB Plants6
- Oecologia6
- Biodiversity and Conservation6
- BMC Ecology and Evolution6
- Plants People Planet6
- Ecosystem Health and Sustainability6
- Fire-Switzerland6
- Freshwater Biology6
- Fungal Ecology6
- Behavioral Ecology6
- Biological Invasions6
- Ecological Management & Restoration6
70 Global Ecology and Conservation5
- International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife5
- Journal of Biological Dynamics5
- Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology5
- Animal Conservation5
- Applied Vegetation Science5
- Aquatic Invasions5
- Arctic Science5
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology5
- Pedobiologia5
- Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics5
- Conservation Physiology5
- Rangeland Ecology & Management5
- Diversity-Basel5
- Restoration Ecology5
- Urban Ecosystems5
- Ecology and Evolution5
- Journal for Nature Conservation5
- Journal of Soil and Water Conservation5
- Animal Biotelemetry5
- Paleobiology5
- Chemistry and Ecology5
- Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology5
- Ecotoxicology5
94 Food Webs4
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment4
- Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology4
- African Journal of Range & Forage Science4
- Plant Ecology4
- Polar Science4
- Ecohydrology4
- Wetlands4
- Environmental Biology of Fishes4
- European Journal of Wildlife Research4
- Evolutionary Ecology4
- Journal of Chemical Ecology4
- Journal of Vegetation Science4
- Landscape and Ecological Engineering4
- Aquatic Ecology4
- Biochemical Systematics and Ecology4
- Biotropica4
- Polar Biology4
- Theoretical Population Biology4
- Tropical Ecology4
- Wildlife Research4
- Flora4
116 Freshwater Science3
- Journal of Freshwater Ecology3
- Journal of Tropical Ecology3
- Journal of Wildlife Management3
- Biology Letters3
- Regional Studies in Marine Science3
- African Journal of Ecology3
- American Midland Naturalist3
- Marine Biology Research3
- Aquatic Microbial Ecology3
- Austral Ecology3
- Polar Research3
- Rangeland Journal3
- Ecological Research3
130 Oryx2
- Chemoecology2
- Polar Record2
- Population Ecology2
- Theoretical Ecology2
- Ecoscience2
- Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management2
- Journal of Natural History2
- Acta Amazonica2
- Phytocoenologia2
- Community Ecology2
- Russian Journal of Ecology2
142 Natural Areas Journal1
- Northeastern Naturalist1
- Compost Science & Utilization1
- Southeastern Naturalist1
- African Journal of Wildlife Research1
- Applied Ecology and Environmental Research1
- New Zealand Journal of Ecology1
- Plant Species Biology1
- Polish Journal of Ecology1
- Contemporary Problems of Ecology1
- Western North American Naturalist1
153 Journal of Plant Ecology0
- Ecological Restoration0
- Northwest Science0
- Southwestern Naturalist0
- eco.mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research0
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