Ecology Letters
Last updated ISSN 1461-023X
Ecology Letters is published by Wiley in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $5,300.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Ecology Letters concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1461-023X, 1461-0248 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $5,300 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,163 |
| Publishing since | 1937 |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1461-0 |
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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