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Urban Ecosystems is an international journal dedicated to scientific investigations of the relationships between socioeconomic and ecological structures and processes in urban environments.

  • Focuses on interactions between urban ecosystems and associated suburban and rural environments.
  • Multidisciplinary, touching on various fields as they apply to urban environments.
  • Relevant topics include: biodiversity, biogeochemistry, conservation biology, wildlife and fisheries management, ecosystem ecology, ecosystem services, environmental chemistry, hydrology, landscape architecture, meteorology and climate, policy, population biology, social and human ecology, soil science, and urban planning.
  • Publishes various topical collections, including Ecology with Cities.
Co-Editor-in-Chief
  • Chi Yung Jim,
  • Michael McKinney
Journal Impact Factor
2.5 (2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
3.3 (2023)
Submission to first decision (median)
9 days
Downloads
513,553 (2023)

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  • Supporting the Sustainable Developmental Goals

    New Content ItemWe are proud to acknowledge that over 50% of the articles published in this journal in 2023 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • Ecology with Cities Collection

    Urban Ecosystems is launching a new type of manuscript and associated topical collection using the theme Ecology with Cities.

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Electronic ISSN
1573-1642
Print ISSN
1083-8155
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  1. AGRICOLA
  2. ANVUR
  3. Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
  4. BFI List
  5. BIOSIS
  6. Baidu
  7. Biological Abstracts
  8. CAB Abstracts
  9. CLOCKSS
  10. CNKI
  11. CNPIEC
  12. Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
  13. Dimensions
  14. EBSCO
  15. EMBiology
  16. Google Scholar
  17. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  18. Meta
  19. Naver
  20. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  21. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  22. Portico
  23. ProQuest
  24. SCImago
  25. SCOPUS
  26. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  27. TD Net Discovery Service
  28. UGC-CARE List (India)
  29. Wanfang
  30. Zoological Record
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