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Ecosystems

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Overview

Ecosystems is an international journal that bridges fundamental ecology, environmental ecology, and environmental problem-solving across diverse temporal and spatial scales.

  • Publishes research, editorials, mini-reviews, and special features.
  • Reviews new tools and methods of broad interest to ecosystem scientists.
  • Publishes papers that integrate biotic, abiotic, and social data in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
  • Studies of ecosystems employ diverse approaches, including theory and modeling, long-term investigations, comparative research and large experiments.
  • Encourages submissions that support and advance the UN's sustainable development goals, specifically SDG 14 Life Below Water and SDG 15 Life on Land.
  • Features distinguished editors-in-chief and an international editorial board
  • No charge to publish unless publishing open access.

 

Editors-in-Chief
  • Stephen R. Carpenter
  • Monica G. Turner

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Journal Impact Factor
3.3 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
3.9 (2024)
Downloads
792.1k (2025)

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    A submission to the journal implies that materials described in the manuscript, including all relevant raw data, will be freely available to any researcher wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching participant confidentiality. Find out more.

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1435-0629
Print ISSN
1432-9840
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  1. AGRICOLA
  2. Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
  3. BFI List
  4. BIOSIS
  5. Baidu
  6. Biological Abstracts
  7. CAB Abstracts
  8. CLOCKSS
  9. CNKI
  10. CNPIEC
  11. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  12. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  13. Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
  14. Dimensions
  15. EBSCO
  16. EMBiology
  17. Engineering Village – GEOBASE
  18. Google Scholar
  19. INIS Atomindex
  20. JSTOR
  21. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  22. Meta
  23. Naver
  24. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  25. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  26. Ovid Discovery
  27. Portico
  28. ProQuest
  29. SCImago
  30. SCOPUS
  31. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  32. TD Net Discovery Service
  33. Wanfang
  34. Zoological Record
  35. eLibrary.ru
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