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Methods in Ecology and Evolution is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by British Ecological Society.
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ISSN 2041-2096Verify ISSN ↗2041-210XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: British Ecological Society
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 19 / 736 | 97th | Q1 |
| Ecological Modeling | 4 / 51 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.7.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 19 of 736) and Q1 in Ecological Modeling (rank 4 of 51), by CiteScore 2025.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 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 12.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.606, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 191.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. Authors elsewhere should check the fee on the journal's own website.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution is published by British Ecological Society. Its print ISSN is 2041-2096 and its online ISSN is 2041-210X.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #652 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution published 99 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 811. 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 23 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Canada (95.7%) and United States (4.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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