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Ecological Studies is not currently indexed in Scopus. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. Published by Springer.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0070-8356Verify ISSN ↗2196-971XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 65 / 181 | 64th | Q2 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 108 / 253 | 57th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 316 / 736 | 57th | Q2 |
| Plant Science | 248 / 541 | 54th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 229 / 491 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (2022–2023 (also 2017)).
Ecological Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2, 64th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.470, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Ecological Studies is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0070-8356 and its online ISSN is 2196-971X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ecological Studies has an h-index of 176 and a 2-year mean of 3.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2.
Ecological Studies published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 79. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Inactive — coverage ended 2023. 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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