Community Ecology

Aims & Scope

Community Ecology, established by the merger of two ecological periodicals, Coenoses and Abstracta Botanica was launched in an effort to create a common global forum for community ecologists dealing with plant, animal and/or microbial communities from terrestrial, marine or freshwater systems.

Main subject areas: (i) community-based ecological theory; (ii) modelling of ecological communities; (iii) community-based ecophysiology; (iv) temporal dynamics, including succession; (v) trophic interactions, including food webs and competition; (vi) spatial pattern analysis, including scaling issues; (vii) community patterns of species richness and diversity; (viii) sampling ecological communities; (ix) data analysis methods.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2
2024	1.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.468

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	39

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	12238

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	171

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Imperfect detection and its consequences for monitoring for conservation

  Citation: 290

  Authors: M., B.

• Importance of species abundance for assessment of trait composition: an example based on pollinator communities

  Citation: 163

  Authors: F., J., S., M.

• Are the ecological impacts of alien species misrepresented? A review of the “native good, alien bad” philosophy

  Citation: 127

  Authors: A.

• Vegetation dynamics on mosaics of Camposand Araucaria forest between 1974 and 1999 in Southern Brazil

  Citation: 114

  Authors: J.M., V.D.

• Discovering and rediscovering the sample-based rarefaction formula in the ecological literature

  Citation: 108

  Authors: A., G., D., L.

• The effect of prevalence and its interaction with sample size on the reliability of species distribution models

  Citation: 106

  Authors: A., J., J.

• Quantifying the network connectivity of landscape mosaics: a graph-theoretical approach

  Citation: 85

  Authors: C., A., G. C., C.

• Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities?

  Citation: 82

  Authors: M., C.

• Spatially constrained rarefaction: incorporating the autocorrelated structure of biological communities into sample-based rarefaction

  Citation: 74

  Authors: A., G., D., C., M., S.

• Impact of the Austrian Agri-environmental scheme on diversity of landscapes, plants and birds

  Citation: 70

  Authors: T., S., M., I., J.

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