Result of full bibliometric search for ecology articles

We searched ISI web of knowledge (Core collection) for all ecology (Topic: Ecology) related papers published in leading journals for the time period 1990-2010. This was done on the 18th October 2016. We narrowed the dataset further down by restricting it to the following journals: ECOLOGY, FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY, MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES, JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, HYDROBIOLOGIA , OECOLOGIA , OIKOS , ECOLOGICAL MODELLING , SCIENCE , BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION , JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY , PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES , ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR , PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , NATURE , MARINE BIOLOGY , ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS , LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY , AMERICAN NATURALIST, ECOLOGY LETTERS, and for the document type: Article and the ‘Web of science category’: Ecology. This yielded a total of 7415 articles