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International Journal of Ecology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2). Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1687-9708Verify ISSN ↗1687-9716Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$820 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 181 / 736 | 75th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 139 / 491 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
International Journal of Ecology is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 181 of 736) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 139 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Ecology 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 4.2, quartile Q1, 75th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.433, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$820 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.
International Journal of Ecology is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1687-9708 and its online ISSN is 1687-9716.
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.
International Journal of Ecology has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 2.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #174 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
International Journal of Ecology published 15 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 19. 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 58 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from Ethiopia (46.3%), India (7.8%) and Cameroon (4.3%).
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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