Publishing in ESA Journals Supports Critical Programs for Science Communication, Training, and Diversity

The Ecological Society of America has been publishing journals for more than 100 years. Our distinguished ESA family of journals includes theBulletin of the Ecological Society of America, first published in 1917,Ecology(1920),Ecological Monographs(1931),Ecological Applications(1991),Frontiers in Ecology and Environment(2003),Ecosphere(2010), and the newest journal,Earth Stewardship(2023). The ESA journals offer high-quality options for presenting scientific findings for all ecological topics. In 2022, our journals published 1,034 new papers, and the cumulative number of papers downloaded was more than 5.7 million. The acceptance rate forEcology,Ecological Applications, andEcosphereranges from 20 to 49%, and the time length from submission to acceptance averages 155 days. The ESA journal acceptance rates are higher thanGlobal Change BiologyandNature, and comparable toLimnology & OceanographyandLimnology & Oceanography Letters. Time to acceptance is longer thanGlobal Change Biology, shorter thanNature, and similar to the aquatic journals. ; © 2024 The Authors. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Ecological Society of America.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in anymedium, provided the original work is properly cited. ; Michael Meyer, Bridget Deemer, and Jill Baron contributed valuable insights into this paper. We appreciate input from Catherine O'Riordan, Liz Biggs, and Shahid Naeem. ; All authors contributed ideas and text. ; No data were collected for this study. ; The authors declare no conflict of interest.