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SCIENCE / ECOLOGY and ENVIRONMENT
List: Top Ten Scholarly Ecology Journals
Date: 2002
Source: Carl T. Bergstrom
Base: All scholarly journals in English language focused on environmental and ecological studies.
Notes: Professor Bergstrom used a measure called 'Impact Factor' developed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) which for a given year is defined as the total number of citations made in that year by any journal to articles published in this journal in the two previous years divided by the number of citable articles published in these two years.
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Rank
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Journal
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Impact
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1
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Ecological Monographs
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6.213
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2
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American
Naturalist
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3.944
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3
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Global
Change Biology
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3.775
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4
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Ecology
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3.650
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5
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Evolution
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3.632
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6
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Ecological
Applications
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3.488
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7
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J. Animal
Ecology
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2.862
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8
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Conservation
Biology
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2.814
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9
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Molecular
Ecology
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2.769
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10
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Microbial Ecology
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2.703
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