One of the ways to promote a more healthy publishing environment is to choose to publish with society-owned journals (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12705; Societies’ Joint Statement on Scientific Publishing) as these tend to have more autonomy and give back more to the community than publisher-owned journals. As with many things, there nonetheless is great variety even among society-owned journals and their relationships with their publishers; learning about the options and asking questions where you see dark spots is key to encouraging transparency. Choosing to do your reviewing and editorial service for society-owned journals is another way to support the scientific community. 

Society-owned journals that publish biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary works include:

Society-owned journals self-published with an open, non-profit, platform
Biogeographia (Società Italiana di Biogeografia [SIB]; eScholarship)

Society-owned journals with an open, non-profit, platform and academic press
Biogeography (Public Knowledge Project & Stanford University Press)

Society-owned journals published with an academic press
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (published by Oxford Academic)
Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society (published by Oxford Academic) 
Evolution (published by Oxford Academic)
Evolution Letters (published by Oxford Academic)
Journal of Evolutionary Biology (published by Oxford Academic)
Journal of Mammalogy (published by Oxford Academic)
Systematic Biology (published by Oxford Academic)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (published by Oxford Academic)

Society-owned journals published with their own press
Ecosistemas (published by Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre [AEET])
Preslia (published by the Czech Botanical Society)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (published by NAS)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (published by RS)
     Sister journals https://royalsociety.org/Journals/
Science (published by AAAS)

Society-owned journals published with a for-profit press
– with one of the ‘Big Five’ presses (sensu Butler et al. 2023)
American Journal of Botany (Botanical Society of America; Wiley)   
Applied Vegetation Science (International Association for Vegetation Science; Wiley)   
Austral Ecology (Ecological Society of Australia; Wiley)
Biotropica (Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation; Wiley)
Ecography (Nordic Society Oikos; Wiley)
Ecological Monographs (Ecological Society of America; Wiley) 
Journal of Vegetation Science (International Association for Vegetation Science; Wiley)
Oikos (Nordic Society Oikos; Wiley)
     (Sister journals published by Nordic Society Oikos; Wiley)
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation (Brazilian Association for Ecological Science
     and Conservation; Elsevier)
Taxon (International Association of Plant Taxonomy; Wiley)
– with other presses
Frontiers of Biogeography (The International Biogeography Society; Pensoft)
Web Ecology (European Ecological Federation; Copernicus)

Other journals that publish biogeographical research include …

Non-profit academic-publisher owned journals
The American Naturalist (owned and published by U. Chicago Press)

(N.B. This is an incomplete list and we welcome recommendations for additions and corrections.) 

Academic publishers (bolded above) often prioritize scholarly criteria in their publications. The eScholarship platform delivered by the University of California (UC) is free-to-use for publishing independent journals by any UC faculty.
Oxford University Press provides information on other journals it publishes, including whether they are society owned, e.g. 
Plant sciences http://www.oupplantsci.com/category/journals/
Similar information on all Oxford journals can be searched at https://academic.oup.com/
Other university presses exist (Unversity of Chicago, University of California, Stanford, etc). 

A database of over 600 non-profit, learned society, or university-associated journals relevant to the field of ecology and evolutionary biology is maintained by DAFNEE (the Database of Academia Friendly jourNals in Ecology and Evolution) at http://dafnee.isem-evolution.fr/ (See also Galtier et al. 2025).

Some biogeography journals are ranked at https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en, an assessment made by a committee of community volunteers & researchers rather than driven by impact factor.

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