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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	42
2	Landscape and Urban Planning	24
3	Global Change Biology	23
-	ISME Journal	23
5	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	20
6	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	16
7	Ecology Letters	15
8	Ecological Monographs	14
-	Ecological Economics	14
-	Ecological Informatics	14
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	14
12	Global Ecology and Biogeography	13
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	13
14	Landscape Ecology	12
-	Ecological Applications	12
16	Ecological Engineering	11
-	Journal of Ecology	11
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	11
-	Molecular Ecology	11
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	11
21	Basic and Applied Ecology	10
-	Biological Conservation	10
-	Ecography	10
-	Functional Ecology	10
-	Microbial Ecology	10
26	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	9
-	Diversity and Distributions	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
29	Conservation Biology	8
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	8
-	Fire Ecology	8
-	Heredity	8
-	Journal of Animal Ecology	8
-	Ecology	8
-	Ecosystems	8
-	Mammal Review	8
-	Neobiota	8
38	American Naturalist	7
-	Ecological Complexity	7
-	Evolution	7
-	Oikos	7
-	Journal of Biogeography	7
-	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	7
44	Biodiversity and Conservation	6
-	Wildlife Biology	6
-	Ecological Management & Restoration	6
-	Ecology and Society	6
-	Ecotoxicology	6
-	Freshwater Biology	6
-	Journal of Arid Environments	6

-	AoB Plants	6
-	Restoration Ecology	6
-	Behavioral Ecology	6
-	Ecological Modelling	6
-	Fungal Ecology	6
-	Journal for Nature Conservation	6
-	Marine Ecology Progress Series	6
-	Oecologia	6
59	Paleobiology	5
-	Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics	5
-	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	5
-	Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	5
-	Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology	5
-	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	5
-	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	5
-	Journal of Vegetation Science	5
-	Animal Conservation	5
-	Applied Vegetation Science	5
-	Rangeland Ecology & Management	5
-	Biological Invasions	5
-	Urban Ecosystems	5
-	Diversity-Basel	5
-	Ecohydrology	5
-	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment	5
75	Plant Ecology	4
-	Polar Biology	4
-	Aquatic Ecology	4
-	Theoretical Population Biology	4
-	Tropical Ecology	4
-	Chemistry and Ecology	4
-	Journal of Biological Dynamics	4
-	Landscape and Ecological Engineering	4
-	Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology	4
-	Pedobiologia	4
-	African Journal of Range & Forage Science	4
-	Polar Science	4
-	Aquatic Invasions	4
-	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	4
-	Biotropica	4
-	Wetlands	4
-	Wildlife Research	4
-	Environmental Biology of Fishes	4
-	Evolutionary Ecology	4
-	Flora	4
-	Journal of Chemical Ecology	4
96	African Journal of Ecology	3
-	Polar Research	3
-	Rangeland Journal	3
-	Ecoscience	3
-	Marine Biology Research	3
-	American Midland Naturalist	3
-	Polar Record	3
-	Austral Ecology	3
-	Theoretical Ecology	3
-	Ecological Research	3
-	European Journal of Wildlife Research	3
-	Journal of Tropical Ecology	3
-	Journal of Wildlife Management	3
109	Russian Journal of Ecology	2
-	Biology Letters	2
-	Community Ecology	2
-	Journal of Freshwater Ecology	2
-	Acta Amazonica	2
-	Phytocoenologia	2
-	Population Ecology	2
-	Chemoecology	2
-	Journal of Natural History	2
-	Oryx	2
119	Applied Ecology and Environmental Research	1
-	Polish Journal of Ecology	1
-	Western North American Naturalist	1
-	Ecological Restoration	1
-	New Zealand Journal of Ecology	1
-	Plant Species Biology	1
-	Southeastern Naturalist	1
-	Compost Science & Utilization	1
-	Contemporary Problems of Ecology	1
-	Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management	1
-	Northeastern Naturalist	1
130	Southwestern Naturalist	0
-	Natural Areas Journal	0
-	Northwest Science	0