Now that Clarivate, Google, and Scopus have lately revealed their respective journal quotation scores for 2021, I can now current — for the 14th yr operating on ConvervationBytes.com — the 2021 conservation/ecology/sustainability journal ranks primarily based on my journal-ranking methodology.
Like final yr, I’ve added just a few journals. I’ve additionally included within the rating the Journal Quotation Indicator (JCI) along with the Journal Affect Issue and Immediacy Index from Clarivate ISI, and the CiteScore (CS) along with the Supply-Normalised Affect Per Paper (SNIP) and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) from Scopus.
You possibly can entry the uncooked information for 2021 and use my RShiny app to derive your individual samples of journal ranks.
I due to this fact current the new 2021 ranks for: (i) 106 ecology, conservation and multidisciplinary journals, (ii) 27 open-access (i.e., you must pay) journals from the earlier class, (iii) 64 ‘ecology’ journals, (iv) 32 ‘conservation’ journals, (v) 43 ‘sustainability’ journals (with basic and energy-focussed journals included), and (vi) 21 ‘marine & freshwater’ journals.
Bear in mind to not take a lot discover if a journal boasts about how its Affect Issue has elevated this yr, as a result of these have a tendency to extend over time anyway What’s essential is a journal’s relative (to different journals) rank.
Listed here are the outcomes:
(i) ecology, conservation and multidisciplinary
Right here’s a extra focussed record of the top-20 journals from above:
Nature Human Behaviour has climbed the ladder significantly since final yr, as has Present Biology. eLife additionally sneaks into the highest 20 this yr.
From the complete pattern above, right here is the rating for these journals which can be open-access, in case you fancy paying a number of 1000’s (if not tens of 1000’s) of {dollars}/euros/kilos for the privilege:
(ii) ecology journals
Not many adjustments for the ecology journals, though Ecography is once more one to observe, preserving on its gradual creep upward. One Earth has now additionally entered the fray with its first set of indices, and remarkably, will get to the highest 20 in its first evaluation yr..
Right here’s a more in-depth take a look at the top-20 from that final record:
(iii) conservation journals
Right here is essentially the most fascinating record for ConservationBytes.com readers:
This hasn’t modified a lot from final yr both, with Organic Conservation sustaining its barely increased rating than Conservation Biology for a second yr in a row. One Earth, as within the ecology rank, has executed exceptionally properly right here for its first inclusion. Word too that I’ve included Individuals and Nature this yr, and it too is available in fairly extremely ranked.
(iv) sustainability journals
Within the ‘sustainability’ journals (together with some general-category ones too), not a lot has modified since final yr, other than that spectacular begin from One Earth:
(v) marine and freshwater journals
Not a lot change right here both since final yr, however now that Annual Overview of Marine Science is again within the combine, it simply tops the record:
See additionally the earlier years’ rankings (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008).