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Nature Ecology and Evolution is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 19.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Nature Research.
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Publisher: Nature Research
Cost to publish: About US$12,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 3 / 736 | 99th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 9 / 491 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 19.2.
Nature Ecology and Evolution is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 3 of 736) and Q1 in Ecology (rank 9 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Nature 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 19.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.671, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 159.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$12,690 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.
Nature Ecology and Evolution is published by Nature Research. Its ISSN is 2397-334X.
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.
Nature Ecology and Evolution has an h-index of 207 and a 2-year mean of 11.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 19.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Nature Ecology and Evolution published 326 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 398. 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 76 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (22.6%), United Kingdom (12.1%) and China (9.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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