Ecological Indicators
Last updated ISSN 1470-160X
Ecological Indicators is published by Elsevier BV in environmental science. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Ecological Indicators concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1470-160X, 1872-7034 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 15,457 |
| Publishing since | 1992 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/ecological-indicators |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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