Academic Journal
Q1The American Naturalist
About The American Naturalist
The American Naturalist is a scholarly journal published by University of Chicago. SCImago 2025 places it in Q1 with an SJR of 1.18 and an H-index of 242.
Its listed coverage is 1946-1948, 1960-1961, 1973-1975, 1978-1979, 1981-2026 and its research categories include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (Q1). The 2025 dataset reports 101 documents and 1152 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies.
Recent Research Articles
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Biased Sex Ratio Leads to Sex-Specific Consequences of Skipped Breeding for a Long-lived Marine Predator
Eric L. Wagner, K. Pearl Wellington, P. Dee Boersma
2026-09-08 · DOI: 10.1086/743958Why harm to victims can lessen with enrichment during predator- and parasite-mediated trophic cascades
Spencer R. Hall, Turner S. DeBlieux
2026-09-08 · DOI: 10.1086/743965In Memoriam: Robert E. Ricklefs (1943–2026)
Former Ricklefs Students and Collaborators
2026-09-03 · DOI: 10.1086/743923Spark, Scaffold, Substrate: The Multiple Hidden Roles of Natural History in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Hari Sridhar, Joyshree Chanam, Priyanka Hariharan
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1086/741683When Correcting for Regression to the Mean Is Worse Than No Correction at All
José F. Fontanari, Mauro Santos
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1086/741601Impacts of Harvest Removal on Mesocarnivore Territorial Dynamics Captured by Mechanistic Home Range Analysis
Derek A. Arnold, Jonathan R. Potts, Knut Kielland, Greg A. Breed et al.
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1086/741600Abundance and Functional Roles, Not Richness, Govern Wood-Fall Degenerative Ecosystem Function in the Deep Sea
Craig R. McClain, Mark Genung, Corie M. Boolukos, S. River D. Bryant et al.
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1086/741526Emergent Periodical Cicada Nymphs Use Skototaxis to Navigate to Trees
Martha R. Weiss, Sean B. Menke, Pablo Frank-Bolton, Mariana Abarca et al.
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1086/741447Cooperation Maximizes Biodiversity
Oscar Godoy, Violeta Calleja-Solanas, Fernando Soler-Toscano, José R. Portillo et al.
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1086/741536Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and Immunity in Experimentally Founded Lake Populations of Threespine Stickleback
Daniel I. Bolnick, Lucas Eckert, Rowan D. H. Barrett, Emma Choi et al.
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1086/741682Heterogeneous Predation, Community Asynchrony, and Metacommunity Stability in Cyanobacterial Mats
Ethan C. Cissell, Sophie J. McCoy
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1086/7415272026 American Society of Naturalists Awards
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1086/741798Front and Back Matter
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1086/743605Changing seasonality and phenology mediate the effects of migration across meta-ecosystems
Lara Chaouat, Florian Altermatt, Tianna Peller
2026-08-27 · DOI: 10.1086/743875Trophic niche representation affects macroevolutionary inference: a case study in elapid snakes
Justin L. Lee, Roy W. McDiarmid, Harry W. Greene, Daniel L. Rabosky et al.
2026-08-27 · DOI: 10.1086/743821Distinct thermoregulatory strategies and challenges in subtropical butterflies and moths
Yuet Fung Ling, Timothy C. Bonebrake
2026-08-25 · DOI: 10.1086/743798Comparisons of reproductive skew need to use probabilities and not B and M-index scores
Peter Nonacs, Cynthia L. Frausto
2026-08-21 · DOI: 10.1086/743772Leveraging Modern Coexistence Theory to understand how stress modifies outcomes of diploid-polyploid competition: a demonstration and review
Tia-Lynn Ashman, Lacey D. Rzodkiewicz, Martin M. Turcotte
2026-08-20 · DOI: 10.1086/743731Disentangling mechanisms of context-dependent species interactions reveals contrasting effects of rainfall on individual- and community-level strengths of plant competition
Kenji T. Hayashi, Nathan J. B. Kraft
2026-08-20 · DOI: 10.1086/743732Endless diversification of fungal vegetative compatibility group driven by a strain of virus
Shun Minami, Akira Sasaki, Hisashi Ohtsuki
2026-08-17 · DOI: 10.1086/743655Reviews
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