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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	24
2	ISME Journal	22
3	Landscape and Urban Planning	19
-	Global Change Biology	19
5	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	17
6	Ecosystem Services	16
7	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	14
-	Nature Ecology & Evolution	14
-	Ecology Letters	14
10	Molecular Ecology Resources	12
-	Ecological Monographs	12
12	Global Ecology and Biogeography	11
-	Ecological Economics	11
14	Ecography	10
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	10
-	Molecular Ecology	10
-	Current Opinion in Insect Science	10
-	Ecological Applications	10
-	Ecological Informatics	10
20	Journal of Applied Ecology	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Diversity and Distributions	9
-	Ecological Engineering	9
-	Journal of Ecology	9
-	Landscape Ecology	9
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	9
-	Biological Conservation	9
28	Ecology	8
-	Basic and Applied Ecology	8
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	8
-	Functional Ecology	8
32	Journal of Biogeography	7
-	Microbial Ecology	7
-	Conservation Biology	7
-	Ecosphere	7
-	Ecosystems	7
-	Heredity	7
-	Journal of Animal Ecology	7
-	Movement Ecology	7
-	Oikos	7
-	People and Nature	7
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	7
-	Ecological Processes	7
-	Wildlife Biology	7
45	Mammal Review	6
-	Neobiota	6
-	Behavioral Ecology	6
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	6
-	Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution	6
-	Journal of Arid Environments	6

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