| 1 | Diversity and Distributions | 42 | 10.8K | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 12 | 5.1K | 41 | 34 |
| 3 | Biological Invasions | 51 | 3.9K | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | BioScience | 13 | 2.9K | 95 | 49 |
| 5 | Biological Reviews | 4 | 2.9K | 32 | 34 |
| 6 | Ecology | 5 | 2.1K | 893 | 136 |
| 7 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 6 | 2.1K | 187 | 34 |
| 8 | Global Change Biology | 5 | 1.6K | 1126 | 1061 |
| 9 | Austral Ecology | 9 | 1.5K | 46 | 6 |
| 10 | Progress in Physical Geography | 3 | 1.5K | 69 | 4 |
| 11 | Journal of Environmental Management | 9 | 1.5K | 203 | 58 |
| 12 | American Naturalist | 3 | 1.4K | 1074 | 163 |
| 13 | Biological Conservation | 9 | 1.3K | 200 | 115 |
| 14 | Conservation Biology | 9 | 1.2K | 97 | 106 |
| 15 | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 1 | 1.2K | 129 | 32 |
| 16 | Taxon | 1 | 1.1K | 1548 | 35 |
| 17 | Annals of Botany | 4 | 1.0K | 1049 | 115 |
| 18 | PLoS Biology | 3 | 905 | 386 | 567 |
| 19 | Trends in Plant Science | 1 | 842 | 1581 | 377 |
| 20 | AoB PLANTS | 8 | 800 | 7 | 1 |
| 21 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 6 | 796 | 18956 | 40021 |
| 22 | New Phytologist | 4 | 714 | 1865 | 1058 |
| 23 | Journal of Biogeography | 4 | 711 | 445 | 132 |
| 24 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 4 | 569 | 60 | 298 |
| 25 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 6 | 557 | 238 | 338 |
| 26 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2 | 503 | 8 | 254 |
| 27 | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 1 | 496 | 4169 | 417 |
| 28 | Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi | 2 | 445 | 226 | 188 |
| 29 | Restoration Ecology | 2 | 432 | 533 | 82 |
| 30 | Environmental Management | 7 | 429 | 34 | 145 |
| 31 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 385 | 617 | 459 |
| 32 | Ecosystem Services | 3 | 343 | 225 | 222 |
| 33 | Biodiversity and Conservation | 4 | 299 | 394 | 466 |
| 34 | South African Journal of Botany | 21 | 288 | 35 | 96 |
| 35 | Ecology Letters | 2 | 281 | 1327 | 2365 |
| 36 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | 1 | 263 | 122 | 689 |
| 37 | Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics | 3 | 262 | 70 | 114 |
| 38 | Journal of Ecology | 4 | 250 | 733 | 1300 |
| 39 | Nature Communications | 2 | 243 | 44919 | 65001 |
| 39 | Ambio | 3 | 243 | 518 | 793 |
| 41 | NeoBiota | 3 | 217 | 4 | 2 |
| 42 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 179 | 3971 | 4157 |
| 43 | Plant Ecology | 3 | 173 | 410 | 359 |
| 44 | Environmental Reviews | 1 | 171 | 219 | 133 |
| 45 | Ecological Studies | 8 | 170 | 136 | 161 |
| 46 | Forest Ecosystems | 4 | 169 | 35 | 73 |
| 47 | Oikos | 2 | 160 | 1396 | 1510 |
| 48 | Biology Letters | 1 | 159 | 2204 | 856 |
| 49 | Environment, Development and Sustainability | 1 | 157 | 2804 | 377 |
| 50 | Landscape and Urban Planning | 1 | 141 | 1567 | 1412 |
| 51 | Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa | 5 | 138 | 30 | 14 |
| 51 | South African Forestry Journal | 5 | 138 | 30 | 6 |
| 53 | Southern Forests | 3 | 122 | 44 | 16 |
| 54 | PLoS ONE | 2 | 121 | 42169 | 64737 |
| 55 | Royal Society Open Science | 1 | 111 | 2807 | 721 |
| 56 | Forest Ecology and Management | 2 | 98 | 4226 | 4521 |
| 56 | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2 | 98 | 733 | 981 |
| 58 | Ecosphere | 2 | 91 | 997 | 1142 |
| 59 | Ecological Applications | 2 | 84 | 562 | 1620 |
| 60 | Environmental Science and Policy | 1 | 77 | 1408 | 1835 |
| 61 | Ecoscience | 1 | 76 | 402 | 305 |
| 61 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 2 | 76 | 253 | 1204 |
| 63 | Oecologia | 1 | 75 | 7810 | 8382 |
| 64 | Scientific Reports | 1 | 70 | 47504 | 64669 |
| 65 | Ecography | 2 | 64 | 833 | 2404 |
| 66 | Animal Conservation | 1 | 58 | 465 | 488 |
| 67 | African Journal of Ecology | 2 | 57 | 265 | 189 |
| 68 | Microbial Ecology | 1 | 53 | 3728 | 5574 |
| 69 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 1 | 48 | 4386 | 6197 |
| 69 | Plants People Planet | 1 | 48 | 259 | 291 |
| 71 | Tree Genetics and Genomes | 2 | 45 | 861 | 1665 |
| 72 | Science | 1 | 42 | 47536 | 64969 |
| 73 | Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 39 | 2828 | 6764 |
| 74 | Global Environmental Change | 1 | 38 | 1150 | 3517 |
| 75 | Journal of Arid Environments | 1 | 37 | 1236 | 1703 |
| 75 | River Research and Applications | 1 | 37 | 701 | 707 |
| 77 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 36 | 8741 | 16112 |
| 78 | Molecular Ecology | 1 | 34 | 5007 | 9403 |
| 79 | Geographical Research | 1 | 33 | 200 | 169 |
| 80 | Ecological Solutions and Evidence | 1 | 32 | 187 | 247 |
| 81 | Plants | 1 | 30 | 22376 | 17509 |
| 82 | Plant Biology | 1 | 29 | 673 | 1221 |
| 83 | American Midland Naturalist | 2 | 28 | 479 | 1045 |
| 83 | npj Biodiversity | 2 | 28 | 7 | 185 |
| 85 | Applied Vegetation Science | 1 | 27 | 652 | 1020 |
| 86 | GCB Bioenergy | 1 | 26 | 783 | 1538 |
| 87 | Journal of Economic Entomology | 1 | 24 | 6197 | 6592 |
| 87 | Acta Oecologica | 1 | 24 | 751 | 1644 |
| 87 | Biology | 1 | 24 | 6424 | 7760 |
| 90 | South African Journal of Science | 1 | 23 | 8 | 18 |
| 90 | Frontiers of Biogeography | 3 | 23 | 68 | 147 |
| 90 | Current Forestry Reports | 1 | 23 | 150 | 794 |
| 93 | BMC Ecology | 1 | 20 | 221 | 1530 |
| 94 | Geoderma | 1 | 19 | 4547 | 9839 |
| 94 | Urban Ecosystems | 2 | 19 | 319 | 2048 |
| 96 | Biotropica | 1 | 18 | 1353 | 2481 |
| 97 | American Journal of Botany | 1 | 17 | 2182 | 4098 |
| 97 | Journal of Pest Science | 1 | 17 | 1569 | 3215 |
| 97 | Managing Forest Ecosystems | 2 | 17 | 176 | 381 |
| 100 | Annals of Applied Biology | 1 | 16 | 376 | 968 |
| 101 | Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club | 1 | 14 | 314 | 434 |
| 102 | Regional Environmental Change | 1 | 13 | 1594 | 5547 |
| 103 | Plant and Soil | 1 | 11 | 10297 | 21835 |
| 103 | Human Ecology | 1 | 11 | 652 | 1974 |
| 105 | Journal of Nursing Administration | 1 | 10 | 482 | 806 |
| 105 | World Sustainability Series | 1 | 10 | 546 | 300 |
| 107 | Ecological Modelling | 1 | 9 | 3380 | 9484 |
| 108 | Waterbirds | 1 | 8 | 412 | 773 |
| 108 | African Entomology | 1 | 8 | 143 | 263 |
| 110 | Southern African Geographical Journal | 1 | 7 | 122 | 260 |
| 110 | Sustainability Science | 1 | 7 | 925 | 3640 |
| 112 | Journal of Emergency Medicine | 1 | 6 | 2378 | 5272 |
| 113 | Evolutionary Ecology | 1 | 5 | 1035 | 3945 |
| 113 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 5 | 3815 | 15590 |
| 113 | Botany Letters | 1 | 5 | 174 | 537 |
| 116 | Fungal Biology | 1 | 3 | 854 | 3524 |
| 116 | Biofuels | 1 | 3 | 361 | 1684 |
| 118 | Indoor and Built Environment | 1 | 0 | 505 | 2183 |
