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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	42
2	Landscape and Urban Planning	26
3	Global Change Biology	22
4	ISME Journal	20
5	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	19
6	Ecosystem Services	18
7	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	17
-	Nature Ecology & Evolution	17
9	Ecological Informatics	15
-	Ecology Letters	15
11	Ecological Economics	14
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	14
-	Ecological Monographs	14
14	Global Ecology and Biogeography	13
15	Molecular Ecology Resources	12
-	Ecological Applications	12
-	Landscape Ecology	12
18	Biological Conservation	11
-	Current Opinion in Insect Science	11
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	11
-	Molecular Ecology	11
-	Ecological Engineering	11
23	Functional Ecology	10
-	Journal of Ecology	10
-	Microbial Ecology	10
-	Basic and Applied Ecology	10
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	10
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	10
-	Ecography	10
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	10
31	Biogeosciences	9
-	People and Nature	9
-	Diversity and Distributions	9
-	Fire Ecology	9
35	Journal of Animal Ecology	8
-	Ecological Processes	8
-	Frontiers in Forests and Global Change	8
-	Heredity	8
-	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	8
-	Movement Ecology	8
-	Conservation Biology	8
-	Ecology	8
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	8
44	American Naturalist	7
-	Neobiota	7
-	Ecological Modelling	7
-	Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution	7
-	Journal of Biogeography	7
-	Oikos	7
-	Ecological Complexity	7

-	Ecology and Society	7
-	Ecosphere	7
-	Ecosystems	7
-	Evolution	7
55	Journal of Arid Environments	6
-	Mammal Review	6
-	Marine Ecology Progress Series	6
-	AoB Plants	6
-	Oecologia	6
-	Biodiversity and Conservation	6
-	BMC Ecology and Evolution	6
-	Plants People Planet	6
-	Ecosystem Health and Sustainability	6
-	Fire-Switzerland	6
-	Freshwater Biology	6
-	Fungal Ecology	6
-	Behavioral Ecology	6
-	Biological Invasions	6
-	Ecological Management & Restoration	6
70	Global Ecology and Conservation	5
-	International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife	5
-	Journal of Biological Dynamics	5
-	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	5
-	Animal Conservation	5
-	Applied Vegetation Science	5
-	Aquatic Invasions	5
-	Arctic Science	5
-	Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	5
-	Pedobiologia	5
-	Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics	5
-	Conservation Physiology	5
-	Rangeland Ecology & Management	5
-	Diversity-Basel	5
-	Restoration Ecology	5
-	Urban Ecosystems	5
-	Ecology and Evolution	5
-	Journal for Nature Conservation	5
-	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	5
-	Animal Biotelemetry	5
-	Paleobiology	5
-	Chemistry and Ecology	5
-	Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology	5
-	Ecotoxicology	5
94	Food Webs	4
-	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment	4
-	Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology	4
-	African Journal of Range & Forage Science	4
-	Plant Ecology	4
-	Polar Science	4
-	Ecohydrology	4
-	Wetlands	4
-	Environmental Biology of Fishes	4
-	European Journal of Wildlife Research	4
-	Evolutionary Ecology	4
-	Journal of Chemical Ecology	4
-	Journal of Vegetation Science	4
-	Landscape and Ecological Engineering	4
-	Aquatic Ecology	4
-	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	4
-	Biotropica	4
-	Polar Biology	4
-	Theoretical Population Biology	4
-	Tropical Ecology	4
-	Wildlife Research	4
-	Flora	4
116	Freshwater Science	3
-	Journal of Freshwater Ecology	3
-	Journal of Tropical Ecology	3
-	Journal of Wildlife Management	3
-	Biology Letters	3
-	Regional Studies in Marine Science	3
-	African Journal of Ecology	3
-	American Midland Naturalist	3
-	Marine Biology Research	3
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	3
-	Austral Ecology	3
-	Polar Research	3
-	Rangeland Journal	3
-	Ecological Research	3
130	Oryx	2
-	Chemoecology	2
-	Polar Record	2
-	Population Ecology	2
-	Theoretical Ecology	2
-	Ecoscience	2
-	Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management	2
-	Journal of Natural History	2
-	Acta Amazonica	2
-	Phytocoenologia	2
-	Community Ecology	2
-	Russian Journal of Ecology	2
142	Natural Areas Journal	1
-	Northeastern Naturalist	1
-	Compost Science & Utilization	1
-	Southeastern Naturalist	1
-	African Journal of Wildlife Research	1
-	Applied Ecology and Environmental Research	1
-	New Zealand Journal of Ecology	1
-	Plant Species Biology	1
-	Polish Journal of Ecology	1
-	Contemporary Problems of Ecology	1
-	Western North American Naturalist	1
153	Journal of Plant Ecology	0
-	Ecological Restoration	0
-	Northwest Science	0
-	Southwestern Naturalist	0
-	eco.mont-Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research	0