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
- Editors-in-Chief
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- Monica G. Turner,
- Stephen R. Carpenter
- Journal Impact Factor
- 3.4 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 3.9 (2023)
- Downloads
- 609,412 (2023)
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Journal updates
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Research Data Policy
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.
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20th Anniversary Virtual Issue
20th Anniversary Virtual Issue
Twenty Years of Ecosystems: Emerging Questions and Challenges
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Special Issues
Special Issues
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1435-0629
- Print ISSN
- 1432-9840
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- AGRICOLA
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CAB Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBiology
- Engineering Village – GEOBASE
- Google Scholar
- INIS Atomindex
- JSTOR
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Meta
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Zoological Record
- Copyright information
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