Ecological Processes
Last updated ISSN 2097-1311
Ecological Processes is published by Springer Nature in environmental science. It is open access. The article processing charge is $1,670.
Is your paper a fit?
The surest way to know is to compare your own abstract against what this journal has actually been publishing, rather than against its aims-and-scope page. Paste your abstract and Journal Hunt will tell you how close Ecological Processes is — and show you journals like it.
What it publishes
Recent work in Ecological Processes concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Plant and animal studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2097-1311, 2192-1709 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $1,670 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 782 |
| Publishing since | 2012 |
| Journal website | ecologicalprocesses.springeropen.com |
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.
Journals like Ecological Processes
Other established journals in environmental science, if this one is not the right home for your paper:

