Global Ecology and Biogeography

Aims & Scope

Global Ecology and Biogeography (GEB) welcomes papers that investigate broad-scale (in space, time and/or taxonomy), general patterns in the organization of ecological systems and assemblages, and the processes that underlie them.

In particular, GEB welcomes studies that use macroecological methods, comparative analyses, meta-analyses, reviews, spatial analyses and modelling to arrive at general, conceptual conclusions.

Studies in GEB need not be global in spatial extent, but the conclusions and implications of the study must be relevant to ecologists and biogeographers globally, rather than being limited to local areas, or specific taxa.

Similarly, GEB is not limited to spatial studies; we are equally interested in the general patterns of nature through time, among taxa (e.g., body sizes, dispersal abilities), through the course of evolution, etc.

Further, GEB welcomes papers that investigate general impacts of human activities on ecological systems in accordance with the above criteria.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	6
2024	6.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.603

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	196

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	901

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	3773

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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.

• Predicting the impacts of climate change on the distribution of species: are bioclimate envelope models useful?

  Citation: 3177

  Authors: Richard G., Terence P.

• Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

  Citation: 2982

  Authors: Andrés

• AUC: a misleading measure of the performance of predictive distribution models

  Citation: 2638

  Authors: Jorge M., Alberto, Raimundo

• Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data

  Citation: 2203

  Authors: C., E., L. L., Z., A., T., J., N.

• Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation: a synthesis

  Citation: 1825

  Authors: Joern, David B.

• Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order

  Citation: 1478

  Authors: Richard J., Salvatore, James, Jill S., Peter, Viki A., Paul R., John J., Carlos A., Ariel E., David, Dennis, David M., Eric W., Fernando, Montserrat, Regino, Martin

• Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data

  Citation: 1280

  Authors: Olivier, Matthew C., Peter B., Blaise, Loïc, Nigel G., Wilfried, Marie‐Josée, Christophe, Niklaus E., Catherine H., Antoine

• Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000

  Citation: 1134

  Authors: Erle C., Kees, Stefan, Deborah, Navin

• A tribute to Claude Shannon (1916–2001) and a plea for more rigorous use of species richness, species diversity and the ‘Shannon–Wiener’ Index

  Citation: 1003

  Authors: Ian F., Peter J.

• The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human‐induced global land‐use change over the past 12,000 years

  Citation: 998

  Authors: Kees, Arthur, Gerard, Martine

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