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Open Access Ecology Journals
A list of Open Access Ecology journals for you to publish your manuscript in
Ecology is scientific study of the relationships between living organisms
A journal article is 'open access' when there are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it - that is to say when anyone can read, download, distribute, print, and search it.
This list of Ecology Open Access journals will hopefully make it easier for you to decide where to publish your Ecology manuscript.
We made this list which includes all the high-impact factor Ecology journals that might be relevant to your field of study.In many cases, you only see lists of Ecology journals, nonetheless, in our case we have made the list with open access Ecology journals in mind.Use our different columns — number of papers, number of citations, and relevance — to find the best Ecology venue for your manuscript.
The DOAJ columns refers to the The Directory of Open Access Journals, a list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access.
There are certain criteria a journal must meet to be indexed by DOAJ, and thus inclusion in the DOAJ index is seen by scholars as a mark of quality.
All the open access Ecology journals in this list are indexed in OA.mg.
If you spot any mistakes in this table of Ecology OA journals, don’t hesitate to send us an email.
| Name | ISSN | DOAJ | Publisher | No. of Papers | Citations | Relevance▼ | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diversity and Distributions | 1366-9516 | ☑ | Wiley | 2830 | 111996 | 98.8 | Website |
| Ecography | 0906-7590 | ☑ | Wiley | 4240 | 187888 | 98.1 | Website |
| European journal of taxonomy | 2118-9773 | ☑ | Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle | 1095 | 2107 | 97.9 | Website |
| BMC Ecology | 1472-6785 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 611 | 15075 | 96.7 | Website |
| Movement ecology | 2051-3933 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 349 | 6045 | 96.3 | Website |
| New Zealand Journal of Ecology | 0110-6465 | 671 | 13258 | 96.1 | |||
| Ecological processes | 2192-1709 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 429 | 4881 | 96 | Website |
| International Journal of Odonatology | 1388-7890 | ☑ | Worldwide Dragonfly Association | 599 | 3397 | 95.8 | Website |
| Carbon Balance and Management | 1750-0680 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 311 | 6704 | 95.8 | Website |
| Biogeosciences | 1726-4170 | ☑ | 5250 | 191990 | 95.3 | Website | |
| PhytoKeys | 1314-2003 | ☑ | Pensoft Publishers | 1235 | 4748 | 95.2 | Website |
| Biodiversity Data Journal | 1314-2828 | ☑ | Pensoft Publishers | 1312 | 4615 | 94.8 | Website |
| European Journal of Ecology | 1339-8474 | ☑ | The University of Kansas | 130 | 452 | 94.6 | Website |
| Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management | 1944-687X | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | 671 | 3225 | 94.6 | ||
| Ecological Indicators | 1470-160X | ☑ | Elsevier | 9111 | 213742 | 94.5 | Website |
| Applied and Environmental Soil Science | 1687-7667 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 452 | 5947 | 94.2 | Website |
| ZooKeys | 1313-2970 | ☑ | Pensoft Publishers | 6451 | 35103 | 94 | Website |
| Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation | 2530-0644 | ☑ | Elsevier | 242 | 1902 | 93.8 | Website |
| Global Ecology and Conservation | 2351-9894 | ☑ | Elsevier | 2264 | 17272 | 93.6 | Website |
| Avian Conservation and Ecology | 1712-6568 | ☑ | Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 444 | 4063 | 93.5 | Website |
| Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control | 1110-1768 | ☑ | 1273 | 3300 | 93.4 | Website | |
| International journal of biodiversity | 2314-4149 | Hindawi Limited | 75 | 654 | 93.3 | ||
| International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture | 2251-7715 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 405 | 4140 | 93.3 | Website |
| Mediterranean Marine Science | 1108-393X | ☑ | National Documentation Centre (EKT) | 945 | 10792 | 93.1 | Website |
| Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine | 1746-4269 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 1035 | 38942 | 92.9 | Website |
| Limnological Review | 1642-5952 | ☑ | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 255 | 861 | 92.9 | |
| Ecological Questions | 1644-7298 | Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University | 491 | 763 | 92.9 | ||
| Sociobiology | 0361-6525 | ☑ | Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana | 2350 | 15495 | 92.8 | Website |
| International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility | 2366-0074 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 69 | 1018 | 92.8 | Website |
| International Indigenous Policy Journal | 1916-5781 | ☑ | International Indigenous policy Journal | 333 | 2732 | 92.8 | Website |
| Journal of Water and Land Development | 1429-7426 | ☑ | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 605 | 2914 | 92.6 | |
| Acarologia | 0044-586X | ☑ | EDP Sciences | 2768 | 14053 | 92.6 | Website |
| Endangered Species Research | 1613-4796 | ☑ | Inter-Research Science Center | 1252 | 26862 | 92.5 | Website |
| Wetlands Australia Journal | 0725-0312 | University of New South Wales | 246 | 833 | 92.3 | ||
| Soil | 2199-398X | ☑ | Copernicus GmbH | 282 | 6514 | 92.2 | Website |
| Journal of Soil Science and Environmental Management | 2141-2391 | Academic Journals | 317 | 1325 | 92.1 | ||
| Forest Ecosystems | 2197-5620 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 417 | 3812 | 92.1 | Website |
| One Ecosystem | 2367-8194 | ☑ | Pensoft Publishers | 112 | 1226 | 92 | Website |
| Journal of Limnology | 1129-5767 | ☑ | PAGEPress Publications | 1091 | 15523 | 92 | Website |
| Aquatic Biology | 1864-7782 | ☑ | Inter-Research Science Center | 782 | 15183 | 91.9 | Website |
| Journal of Ecosystems | 2314-6001 | Hindawi Limited | 36 | 462 | 91.7 | ||
| Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 2296-701X | ☑ | Frontiers Media SA | 3587 | 24058 | 91.7 | Website |
| Fire Ecology | 1933-9747 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 499 | 7823 | 91.6 | Website |
| Avian research | 2053-7166 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 351 | 1447 | 91.5 | Website |
| International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation | 2141-243X | Academic Journals | 660 | 3556 | 91.4 | ||
| Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research | 2038-324X | ☑ | PAGEPress Publications | 256 | 867 | 91.4 | Website |
| Frontiers in forests and global change | 2624-893X | ☑ | Frontiers Media SA | 634 | 2437 | 91.3 | Website |
| Subterranean biology | 1768-1448 | ☑ | Pensoft Publishers | 258 | 939 | 91.1 | Website |
| Open Journal of Soil Science | 2162-5360 | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 348 | 1895 | 91.1 | ||
| Ecosphere | 2150-8925 | ☑ | Wiley | 3905 | 57703 | 91 | Website |
| African Invertebrates | 1681-5556 | ☑ | Pensoft Publishers | 871 | 5203 | 91 | Website |
| International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystems Services & Management | 2151-3732 | ☑ | Taylor & Francis | 296 | 5761 | 90.9 | Website |
| European journal of environmental sciences | 1805-0174 | ☑ | Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press | 195 | 697 | 90.8 | Website |
| Insects | 2075-4450 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 3903 | 22503 | 90.6 | Website |
| Journal of Orthoptera Research | 1082-6467 | ☑ | Pensoft Publishers | 737 | 5729 | 90.5 | Website |
| Arctic science | 2368-7460 | ☑ | Canadian Science Publishing | 263 | 1413 | 90.5 | Website |
| International Journal of Forestry Research | 1687-9368 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 296 | 2327 | 90.5 | Website |
| Ecoprint: An International Journal of Ecology | 1024-8668 | Nepal Journals Online | 156 | 449 | 90.4 | ||
| Journal of Hymenoptera Research | 1070-9428 | ☑ | Pensoft Publishers | 955 | 6423 | 90.2 | Website |
| Fottea | 1802-5439 | Palacky University Olomouc | 417 | 4126 | 90.2 | ||
| Trees, forests and people | 2666-7193 | ☑ | Elsevier | 294 | 364 | 90.1 | Website |
| International Journal of Ecosystem | 2165-8889 | Scientific and Academic Publishing | 121 | 373 | 90.1 | ||
| Aquatic Invasions | 1818-5487 | ☑ | Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy - REABIC | 1012 | 16473 | 89.9 | Website |
| Web Ecology | 1399-1183 | ☑ | Copernicus GmbH | 227 | 1934 | 89.9 | Website |
| Tropical Conservation Science | 1940-0829 | ☑ | SAGE | 810 | 9782 | 89.9 | Website |
| Ecologica Montenegrina | 2336-9744 | ☑ | Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology | 675 | 859 | 89.8 | Website |
| Acta Herpetologica | 1827-9635 | ☑ | 402 | 1647 | 89.8 | Website | |
| Open Journal of Ecology | 2162-1993 | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 561 | 2033 | 89.5 | ||
| Soil systems | 2571-8789 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 352 | 1907 | 89.2 | Website |
| Zoologia | 1984-4670 | ☑ | Pensoft Publishers | 975 | 7132 | 88.9 | Website |
| Resources and Environment | 2163-2618 | Scientific and Academic Publishing | 226 | 923 | 88.9 | ||
| Journal of Freshwater Ecology | 0270-5060 | ☑ | Taylor & Francis | 2469 | 22632 | 88.9 | Website |
| Nauplius | 0104-6497 | ☑ | SciELO | 367 | 1345 | 88.8 | Website |
| Journal of Insect Science | 0970-3837 | ☑ | 2495 | 35203 | 88.8 | Website | |
| Journal of pollination ecology | 1920-7603 | ☑ | International Commission for Plant Pollinator Relations | 208 | 1440 | 88.5 | Website |
| The Open Marine Biology Journal | 1874-4508 | Bentham Science | 67 | 552 | 88.1 | ||
| Biological oceanography | 0196-5581 | Taylor & Francis | 108 | 3380 | 88 | Website | |
| Landscape Online | 1865-1542 | ☑ | Landscape Online | 107 | 1980 | 87.9 | Website |
| Asian Journal of Sustainability and Social Responsibility | 2365-6417 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 33 | 405 | 87.9 | Website |
| Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity | 2287-884X | ☑ | Elsevier | 800 | 2000 | 87.8 | Website |
| Han-guk toyang biryo hakoeji | 0367-6315 | Korean Society of Soil Science and Fertilizer | 893 | 2150 | 87.7 | ||
| Wildlife Biology | 0909-6396 | ☑ | BioOne (Wildlife Biology) | 1305 | 25176 | 87.4 | |
| Metabarcoding and Metagenomics | 2534-9708 | ☑ | Pensoft Publishers | 79 | 651 | 87.3 | Website |
| International Journal of Zoology | 1687-8477 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 179 | 1498 | 87.2 | Website |
| Sustainable Agriculture Research | 1927-050X | Canadian Center of Science and Education | 491 | 1751 | 87.2 | ||
| Evolutionary Applications | 1752-4571 | ☑ | Wiley | 1809 | 46941 | 87.1 | Website |
| Journal of Nematology | 0022-300X | ☑ | Exeley, Inc. | 3981 | 59029 | 86.9 | Website |
| Check List | 1809-127X | ☑ | Check List Journal | 3103 | 9868 | 86.9 | Website |
| The Open Ecology Journal | 1874-2130 | Bentham Science | 106 | 3154 | 86.8 | Website | |
| Energy, Sustainability and Society | 2192-0567 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 410 | 5124 | 86.8 | Website |
| Conservation Physiology | 2051-1434 | ☑ | Oxford University Press | 823 | 10485 | 86.8 | Website |
| Ecology and Evolution | 2045-7758 | ☑ | Wiley | 9231 | 102116 | 86.8 | Website |
| Agricultural and Food Economics | 2193-7532 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 239 | 2268 | 86.6 | Website |
| Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability | 2493-9439 | ☑ | EDP Sciences | 179 | 583 | 86.6 | Website |
| International Journal of Ecology | 1687-9708 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 365 | 2460 | 86.6 | Website |
| Regional climate studies | 1862-0248 | 52 | 421 | 86.5 | |||
| Global sustainability | 2059-4798 | ☑ | Cambridge University Press | 125 | 1283 | 86.4 | Website |
| Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems | 2165-400X | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 168 | 1323 | 86.3 | ||
| Forests | 1999-4907 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 7732 | 50748 | 86.1 | Website |
| Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research | 1841-7051 | ☑ | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 258 | 377 | 86 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I publish my Ecology paper?
You can publish your Ecology paper in the Open Access journals in this list
What is Open Access (OA)?
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and practices through which research is freely distributed online
What does “relevance” mean in the table?
If a journal has a relevance of “100”, that means that the journal is fully related to the concept it is listed under. If, on the other hand, a journal has a relevance of “0”, that means that the journal doesn’t have any relation to the topic it is listed under. So Nutrition might have a low relevance when included in Open Computer Science Journals
How do you count total number of citations?
The citations represent the times that works have cited papers under this journal. In our case, we obtain this data from OpenAlex, an open catalog of scholarly papers. It's hard to say how accurate it is but it can give you a general idea on how prestigious the journal is. The more work that have cited it, the better.
Where can I find other lists like this one?
To search for more open journal lists under different topics, look on OA.mg
How can I publish my paper on OA.mg?
That's exactly why we made these lists, so you can find a journal that will publish your paper. We at OA.mg don't offer publishing services.
What is an APC?
Article Processing Charges (APCs) are charged to authors of scholarly articles during the publication process. APCs are used by open access journals.
What are the different Open Access types?
Although there are Gold, Green, Hybrid, Bronze, Diamond, and Black Open Access licenses, here are the most common ones:
Full Gold Open Access: article is freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication.
Hybrid Open Access: refers to a publishing model in which subscription-based journals allow authors to make individual articles gold open access immediately on payment of an article publication charge.
Green Open Access: refers to the possibility to make subscription-based journal articles open access by uploading the peer-reviewed and accepted author manuscript to an institutional repository (such as DiVA)