Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics is an annual peer-reviewed

Peer review

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scientific journal

Scientific journal

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published by Annual Reviews. The journal was established in 1970 as the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics and changed its name beginning in 2003. It publishes invited review articles

Review journal

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on topics considered to be timely and important in the fields of ecology

Ecology

Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

, evolutionary biology, and systematics

Systematics

Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of terrestrial life, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees...

. According to the Journal Citation Reports
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, its 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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is 8.190, ranking it 3rd among 127 journals in the category "Ecology".