Journal of Ecology: impact and ranking
Journal of Ecology has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.22 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,626 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 364. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.22 #1,626 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 364 #289 of 18,122
- Citations
- 861k #446 of 18,122
- Works
- 11k 77.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Ecology?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Journal of Ecology: 5.22, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Ecology #1,626 of 18,122 journals, in the top 9%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Ecology?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Ecology an h-index of 364: 364 of its papers have each been cited at least 364 times. That ranks #289 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Ecology publish?
OpenAlex records 11,106 works in Journal of Ecology from 1913 to 2026, cited 860,582 times in all, 77.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #446 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Ecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0022-0477
- In OpenAlex
- 1913 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Ecology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,610.
- Website
- www.journalofecology.org
- OpenAlex record
- S11271929
Journals ranked near Journal of Ecology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Ecology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,614 | Journal of Affective Disorders | 5.23 | 307 |
| 1,616 | Scientific Reports | 5.23 | 461 |
| 1,623 | The Astronomical Journal | 5.23 | 354 |
| 1,636 | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics | 5.21 | 391 |
| 1,643 | Genetics | 5.19 | 416 |
| 1,659 | Electrochimica Acta | 5.16 | 329 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.