Journal Ranking in Ecology and
Environmental Sciences, 1998-2008
Based on citations per paper among journals with 10,000 or more citations.
Rank
Journal
Papers
Citations
Citations
Per
Paper
1
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics
131
15,293
116.74
2
Nature
395
41,042
103.9
3
Science
397
34,568
87.07
4
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
727
39,356
54.13
5
Ecological Monographs
309
11,310
36.6
6
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
491
17,088
34.8
7
Systematic Biology
416
12,194
29.31
8
Ecology
3,161
80,313
25.41
9
Ecology Letters
1,133
26,327
23.24
10
The American Naturalist
1,618
36,694
22.68
11
Conservation Biology
1,729
36,209
20.94
12
Environmental Health Perspectives
3,374
70,023
20.75
13
Molecular Ecology
3,345
69,275
20.71
14
Ecological Applications
1,711
34,899
20.4
15
Journal of Ecology
1,081
20,969
19.4
16
Global Change Biology
1,508
27,995
18.56
17
Journal of Applied Ecology
1,162
21,032
18.1
18
Oecologia
3,219
56,010
17.4
19
Ecosystems
705
12,199
17.3
20
Environmental Science & Technology
10,006
171,816
17.17
The data above were extracted from
Clarivate's
Essential Science IndicatorsSM database. This database,
currently covering the period January 1998 thorough October 2008, surveys
only journal articles (original research reports and review articles)
indexed by Clarivate. Articles are assigned to a category based on
the journals in which they were published and Clarivate’s
journal-to-category field definition scheme. Both articles tabulated and
citation counts to those articles are for the period indicated. Here our
ranking of journals in ecology and environmental sciences is by citations
per paper to reveal weighted impact. Essential Science Indicators
lists journals ranked in the top 50% for a field over a given period, based
on total citations.
In ecology and environmental sciences, 168 journals are listed, meaning 336
journals in this field were surveyed. Of these 168 journals, 54 received
10,000 or more citations during the period. This ranking should be
recognized as distinctly different from Clarivate’s impact
factor rankings, which are presented in the Journal Citation Reports issued
each year. The impact factor is calculated as citations in Year 3 to a
journal’s contents in Years 1 and 2, divided by the number of
so-called citable items (regular articles and reviews) in Years 1 and 2.
Thus, the above ranking reveals longer term impact (citations per paper).
The data for the multidisciplinary journals listed –
Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National
Academy of the USA – take into account only those articles that
have been classified by Clarivate as ecology and environmental
sciences papers.
SOURCE: Clarivate’s Essential Science Indicators
database, January 1, 1998 through October 31, 2008.
This item also appeared in the Times Higher Education magazine,
reprinted with their
permission.