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Ecosystems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1432-9840Verify ISSN ↗1435-0629Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$4,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 47 / 736 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Ecology | 48 / 491 | 90th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 40 / 157 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
Ecosystems is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 47 of 736), Q1 in Ecology (rank 48 of 491) and Q2 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 40 of 157), by CiteScore 2025.
Ecosystems 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 8.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.423, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 184.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,790 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.
Ecosystems is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1432-9840 and its online ISSN is 1435-0629.
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.
Ecosystems has an h-index of 208 and a 2-year mean of 2.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Ecosystems published 89 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 170. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.3%), China (9.7%) and Canada (8.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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