This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Ecology journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Genome Biology | BioMed Central Ltd. | 14747596 | 9.249 |
| 2 | Nature Sustainability | Nature Publishing Group | 23989629 | 6.568 |
| 3 | Fungal Diversity | Springer Netherlands | 15602745, 18789129 | 5.784 |
| 4 | Annual Review of Entomology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 00664170, 15454487 | 5.655 |
| 5 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | Annual Reviews Inc. | 1543592X | 5.409 |
| 6 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | Nature Publishing Group | 2397334X | 5.374 |
| 7 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | Elsevier Ltd. | 01695347, 18728383 | 5.127 |
| 8 | Ecology Letters | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1461023X, 14610248 | 4.426 |
| 9 | Global Change Biology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13652486, 13541013 | 4.069 |
| 10 | Mycosphere | Zhongkai University | 20777019, 20777000 | 3.918 |
| 11 | ISME Journal | Nature Publishing Group | 17517362, 17517370 | 3.619 |
| 12 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | Wiley-Blackwell | 15409295, 15409309 | 3.51 |
| 13 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | Oxford University Press | 15371719, 07374038 | 3.423 |
| 14 | Evolution Letters | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 20563744 | 3.297 |
| 15 | Ecological Monographs | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 129615 | 3.273 |
| 16 | Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi | National Herbarium Nederland | 315850 | 3.273 |
| 17 | Systematic Biology | Oxford University Press | 1076836X, 10635157 | 3.185 |
| 18 | Conservation Letters | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 1755263X | 3.083 |
| 19 | Global Environmental Change | Elsevier Ltd. | 09593780, 18729495 | 2.945 |
| 20 | Environmental Science and Technology Letters | American Chemical Society | 23288930 | 2.909 |
| 21 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 2041210X | 2.805 |
| 22 | Molecular Ecology Resources | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1755098X, 17550998 | 2.594 |
| 23 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14668238, 1466822X | 2.447 |
| 24 | Ecography | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 16000587, 09067590 | 2.372 |
| 25 | PLoS Genetics | Public Library of Science | 15537390, 15537404 | 2.363 |
| 26 | BMC Biology | BioMed Central Ltd. | 17417007 | 2.324 |
| 27 | Environmental Science and Ecotechnology | Elsevier BV | 26664984 | 2.247 |
| 28 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 20491948 | 2.245 |
| 29 | Global Food Security | Elsevier | 22119124 | 2.173 |
| 30 | Biological Conservation | Elsevier BV | 63207 | 2.146 |
| 31 | Current Forestry Reports | Springer International Publishing AG | 21986436 | 2.143 |
| 32 | Reviews in Aquaculture | Blackwell Publishing Asia | 17535131, 17535123 | 2.117 |
| 33 | Functional Ecology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 02698463, 13652435 | 2.073 |
| 34 | Conservation Biology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 15231739, 08888892 | 2.071 |
| 35 | Journal of Ecology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00220477, 13652745 | 2.07 |
| 36 | Landscape and Urban Planning | Elsevier | 1692046 | 2.065 |
| 37 | Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 23308249, 23308257 | 2.064 |
| 38 | Journal of Applied Ecology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00218901, 13652664 | 1.964 |
| 39 | Ecology | Wiley-Blackwell | 129658 | 1.958 |
| 40 | Ecosystem Services | Elsevier BV | 22120416 | 1.956 |
| 41 | Molecular Ecology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1365294X, 09621083 | 1.937 |
| 42 | Journal of Animal Ecology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 00218790, 13652656 | 1.913 |
| 43 | People and Nature | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 25758314 | 1.909 |
| 44 | Geography and Sustainability | 20967438, 26666839 | 1.898 | |
| 45 | Life Science Alliance | Rockefeller University Press | 25751077 | 1.884 |
| 46 | PLoS Computational Biology | Public Library of Science | 15537358, 1553734X | 1.872 |
| 47 | Fish and Fisheries | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14672960, 14672979 | 1.868 |
| 48 | Environmental DNA | John Wiley & Sons Inc. | 26374943 | 1.809 |
| 49 | Evolution and Human Behavior | Elsevier Inc. | 10905138 | 1.795 |
| 50 | Ambio | Allen Press Inc. | 16547209, 00447447 | 1.769 |
| 51 | International Journal of Biological Sciences | Ivyspring International Publisher | 14492288 | 1.75 |
| 52 | Diversity and Distributions | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13669516, 14724642 | 1.731 |
| 53 | Ecological Applications | Wiley-Blackwell | 19395582, 10510761 | 1.726 |
| 54 | Quaternary Science Reviews | Elsevier Ltd. | 2773791 | 1.701 |
| 55 | mSystems | American Society for Microbiology | 23795077 | 1.691 |
| 56 | Mammal Review | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 03051838, 13652907 | 1.672 |
| 57 | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | Elsevier | 1678809 | 1.639 |
| 58 | IMA Fungus | International Mycological Association | 22106359, 22106340 | 1.616 |
| 59 | Plants People Planet | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 25722611 | 1.611 |
| 60 | Biogeosciences | European Geosciences Union | 17264189, 17264170 | 1.598 |
| 61 | Current Opinion in Insect Science | Elsevier BV | 22145745, 22145753 | 1.589 |
| 62 | Systematic Entomology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13653113, 03076970 | 1.572 |
| 63 | Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation | 25300644 | 1.54 | |
| 64 | Sustainability Science | Springer Japan | 18624065, 18624057 | 1.535 |
| 65 | Evolution; international journal of organic evolution | Wiley-Blackwell | 15585646, 00143820 | 1.503 |
| 66 | American Naturalist | University of Chicago | 00030147, 15375323 | 1.49 |
| 67 | Landscape Ecology | Springer Netherlands | 15729761, 09212973 | 1.471 |
| 68 | Oikos | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 16000706, 00301299 | 1.471 |
| 69 | Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science | Elsevier BV | 22121447 | 1.465 |
| 70 | Geobiology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14724677, 14724669 | 1.441 |
| 71 | Urban Forestry and Urban Greening | Urban und Fischer Verlag GmbH und Co. KG | 16188667 | 1.434 |
| 72 | Movement Ecology | BioMed Central Ltd. | 20513933 | 1.428 |
| 73 | Ecosystems | Springer New York | 14329840, 14350629 | 1.427 |
| 74 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | Academic Press Inc. | 10959513, 10557903 | 1.414 |
| 75 | Ecological Indicators | Elsevier | 1470160X | 1.396 |
| 76 | Environmental Microbiology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14622912, 14622920 | 1.391 |
| 77 | Fungal Systematics and Evolution | Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute | 25893823, 25893831 | 1.376 |
| 78 | Evolutionary Applications | Wiley-Blackwell | 17524571 | 1.374 |
| 79 | Genome Biology and Evolution | Oxford University Press | 17596653 | 1.374 |
| 80 | Journal of Biogeography | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 13652699, 03050270 | 1.371 |
| 81 | Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 20563485 | 1.366 |
| 82 | Environmental Impact Assessment Review | Elsevier Inc. | 1959255 | 1.362 |
| 83 | Cladistics | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 10960031, 07483007 | 1.347 |
| 84 | Journal of Human Evolution | Academic Press Inc. | 00472484, 10958606 | 1.338 |
| 85 | Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics | Wiley-Blackwell | 00083976, 17447976 | 1.333 |
| 86 | Journal of Pest Science | Springer Verlag | 16124758, 16124766 | 1.31 |
| 87 | Insect Systematics and Diversity | Oxford University Press | 23993421 | 1.294 |
| 88 | Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 21698953, 21698961 | 1.285 |
| 89 | Ecosystems and People | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 26395908, 26395916 | 1.28 |
| 90 | PaleoAmerica | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 20555563, 20555571 | 1.28 |
| 91 | Restoration Ecology | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 1526100X, 10612971 | 1.238 |
| 92 | Fire Ecology | Association for Fire Ecology | 19339747 | 1.224 |
| 93 | Preslia | Czech Botanical Society | 327786 | 1.223 |
| 94 | Animal Conservation | Wiley-Blackwell | 13679430, 14691795 | 1.213 |
| 95 | Issues in Ecology | Ecological Society of America | 10928987 | 1.213 |
| 96 | NeoBiota | Pensoft Publishers | 16190033, 13142488 | 1.213 |
| 97 | Horticultural Plant Journal | Elsevier BV | 20959885, 24680141 | 1.199 |
| 98 | Ecology and Society | The Resilience Alliance | 17083087 | 1.188 |
| 99 | EvoDevo | BioMed Central Ltd. | 20419139 | 1.172 |
| 100 | Applied Soil Ecology | Elsevier | 9291393 | 1.164 |
| 101 | Marine Life Science and Technology | Springer Verlag | 26621746, 20966490 | 1.158 |
| 102 | Soil Ecology Letters | Higher Education Press Limited Company | 26622289, 26622297 | 1.158 |
| 103 | Wildlife Monographs | Wiley-Blackwell | 840173 | 1.157 |
| 104 | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History | American Museum of Natural History Library | 30090 | 1.155 |
| 105 | Environmental and Experimental Botany | Elsevier | 988472 | 1.129 |
| 106 | Biology Direct | BioMed Central Ltd. | 17456150 | 1.117 |
| 107 | Aquaculture, Economics and Management | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 13657305, 13657313 | 1.109 |
| 108 | Insect Conservation and Diversity | Wiley-Blackwell | 17524598, 1752458X | 1.106 |
| 109 | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | Elsevier | 310182 | 1.097 |
| 110 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | Frontiers Media S.A. | 2296701X | 1.095 |