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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Landscape and Urban Planning	25
2	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	20
3	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	16
4	Ecological Economics	14
5	Ecological Monographs	13
6	Landscape Ecology	12
7	Molecular Ecology	11
-	Journal of Ecology	11
-	Ecological Engineering	11
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	11
11	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	10
-	Biological Conservation	10
-	Functional Ecology	10
-	Microbial Ecology	10
-	Ecography	10
16	Ecology	9
17	Wildlife Biology	8
-	Conservation Biology	8
-	Mammal Review	8
-	Heredity	8
21	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	7
-	Evolution	7
-	Journal of Animal Ecology	7
-	Journal of Arid Environments	7
-	Oikos	7
-	American Naturalist	7
-	Journal of Biogeography	7
28	Marine Ecology Progress Series	6
-	Oecologia	6
-	Ecological Modelling	6
-	Biodiversity and Conservation	6
-	Freshwater Biology	6
33	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	5
-	Pedobiologia	5
-	Ecotoxicology	5
-	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	5
-	Paleobiology	5
-	Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	5
39	Journal of Chemical Ecology	4
-	Theoretical Population Biology	4
-	Tropical Ecology	4
-	African Journal of Range & Forage Science	4
-	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	4
-	Chemistry and Ecology	4
-	Flora	4
-	Polar Biology	4
-	Wetlands	4
-	Biotropica	4
-	Environmental Biology of Fishes	4
-	Evolutionary Ecology	4

51	Journal of Wildlife Management	3
-	American Midland Naturalist	3
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	3
-	Ecological Research	3
-	Journal of Tropical Ecology	3
-	Polar Research	3
-	African Journal of Ecology	3
58	Journal of Freshwater Ecology	2
-	Oryx	2
-	Polar Record	2
-	Acta Amazonica	2
-	Journal of Natural History	2
-	Phytocoenologia	2
-	Chemoecology	2
65	New Zealand Journal of Ecology	1
-	Plant Species Biology	1
-	Natural Areas Journal	1
68	Northwest Science	0
-	Southwestern Naturalist	0