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Ecological Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 0912-3814Verify ISSN ↗1440-1703Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 199 / 736 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Ecological Research is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 199 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Ecological Research 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.594, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 92.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Ecological Research is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 0912-3814 and its online ISSN is 1440-1703.
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.
Ecological Research has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 1.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #255 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Ecological Research published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 132. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (44.6%), Brazil (8.2%) and United States (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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