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Functional Ecology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0269-8463Verify ISSN ↗1365-2435Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 38 / 736 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.5.
Functional Ecology is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 38 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Functional Ecology 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 9.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.972, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 201.
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.
Functional Ecology is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0269-8463 and its online ISSN is 1365-2435.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Functional Ecology has an h-index of 243 and a 2-year mean of 4.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Functional Ecology published 292 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (25.2%), United States (18.7%) and Australia (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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