Ecology and Society is a quarterly open access

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 interdisciplinary

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 scientific journal

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 published by the Resilience Alliance

Resilience Alliance

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. It covers an array of disciplines from the natural science

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s, social sciences, and the humanities concerned with the relationship between society and the life-supporting ecosystem

Ecosystem

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s on which human well-being ultimately depends. Issues are available online as "in progress" as soon as articles are published. Special issues are published separately throughout the year. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

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of 3.310.

, the three most cited articles from Ecology and Society were:

• BH Walker, C.S. Holling, S.R. Carpenter, A Kinzig. 2004. Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 9(2):5
• JM Anderies, MA Janssen, E Ostrom. 2004. A framework to analyze the robustness of social-ecological systems from an institutional perspective. Ecology and Society 9(1):18
• DW Cash, NW Adger, F Berkes et al. 2006. Scale and cross-scale dynamics: Governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society 11(2):8