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Ecological Questions is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Nicolaus Copernicus University.
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ISSN 1644-7298Verify ISSN ↗2083-5469Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nicolaus Copernicus University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 374 / 876 | 57th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 319 / 736 | 56th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 231 / 491 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Ecological Modeling | 26 / 51 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2002–2004), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Ecological Questions is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 374 of 876), Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 319 of 736) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 231 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Ecological Questions is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.322, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
Ecological Questions is published by Nicolaus Copernicus University. Its print ISSN is 1644-7298 and its online ISSN is 2083-5469.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ecological Questions has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 1.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #369 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Ecological Questions published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 52. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Poland (14.5%), India (14.3%) and Ukraine (12.4%).
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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