Ecological Complexity

Aims & Scope

Ecological Complexity is an international journal devoted to the publication of high quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of biocomplexity in the environment, theoretical ecology, and special issues on topics of current interest.

The scope of the journal is wide and interdisciplinary with an integrated and quantitative approach.

The journal particularly encourages submission of papers that integrate natural and social processes at appropriately broad spatio-temporal scales.

Ecological Complexity will publish research into the following areas: • All aspects of biocomplexity in the environment and theoretical ecology • Ecosystems and biospheres as complex adaptive systems • Self-organization of spatially extended ecosystems • Emergent properties and structures of complex ecosystems • Ecological pattern formation in space and time • The role of biophysical constraints and evolutionary attractors on species assemblages • Ecological scaling (scale invariance, scale covariance and across scale dynamics), allometry, and hierarchy theory • Ecological topology and networks • Studies towards an ecology of complex systems • Complex systems approaches for the study of dynamic human-environment interactions • Using knowledge of nonlinear phenomena to better guide policy development for adaptation strategies and mitigation to environmental change • New tools and methods for studying ecological complexity

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.4

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	8896

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	343

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.647

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	69

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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.

• Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making

  Citation: 2608

  Authors: R.S., R., L., L., L.

• Assessing the soil erosion control service of ecosystems change in the Loess Plateau of China

  Citation: 779

  Authors: Bojie, Yu, Yihe, Chansheng, Yuan, Bingfang

• Capacity, pressure, demand, and flow: A conceptual framework for analyzing ecosystem service provision and delivery

  Citation: 589

  Authors: Amy M., Paul L., Elena M.

• Centrality measures and the importance of generalist species in pollination networks

  Citation: 436

  Authors: Ana M., Bo, Jens M.

• Quantifying sustainability: Resilience, efficiency and the return of information theory

  Citation: 426

  Authors: Robert E., Sally J., Bernard, Rocio

• Review of optical-based remote sensing for plant trait mapping

  Citation: 345

  Authors: Lucie, Zbyněk, Jan G.P.W., Glenda, Michael E.

• Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization: The case of the two fastest growing metropolitan regions in the United States

  Citation: 307

  Authors: Jianguo, G. Darrel, Alexander, Charles L.

• Precisely incorrect? Monetising the value of ecosystem services

  Citation: 287

  Authors: Joachim H., Josef

• Spatial characteristics between biodiversity and ecosystem services in a human-dominated watershed

  Citation: 234

  Authors: Yang, Changwei, Zhiyun, Hua, Bo

• On some properties of the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and their ecological meaning

  Citation: 232

  Authors: C., J.

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