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Acta Oecologica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1146-609XVerify ISSN ↗1873-6238Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,210 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 314 / 736 | 57th | Q2 |
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 99 / 231 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1983), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Acta Oecologica is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 314 of 736) and Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 99 of 231), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Oecologica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.498, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 88.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,210 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Oecologica is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1146-609X and its online ISSN is 1873-6238.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Oecologica has an h-index of 98 and a 2-year mean of 1.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #243 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Acta Oecologica published 77 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 123. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (21.7%), United States (7.4%) and China (7.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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