| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Diversity and Distributions | 44 | 9,860 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 13 | 4,397 | 18 | 30 |
| 3 | Biological Invasions | 48 | 3,207 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Biological Reviews | 5 | 2,950 | 8 | 12 |
| 5 | BioScience | 10 | 2,538 | 7 | 29 |
| 6 | Ecology | 5 | 1,999 | 668 | 101 |
| 7 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 6 | 1,896 | 174 | 29 |
| 8 | Austral Ecology | 10 | 1,446 | 32 | 5 |
| 9 | Global Change Biology | 5 | 1,372 | 1.0K | 511 |
| 10 | Progress in Physical Geography | 3 | 1,362 | 24 | 2 |
| 11 | Journal of Environmental Management | 11 | 1,139 | 57 | 48 |
| 12 | American Naturalist | 2 | 1,086 | 787 | 93 |
| 13 | Conservation Biology | 9 | 1,070 | 81 | 91 |
| 14 | Taxon | 1 | 1,012 | 1.3K | 20 |
| 15 | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 1 | 987 | 73 | 21 |
| 16 | Biological Conservation | 8 | 952 | 163 | 115 |
| 17 | Annals of Botany | 4 | 864 | 281 | 47 |
| 18 | South African Journal of Botany | 34 | 852 | 10 | 6 |
| 19 | Trends in Plant Science | 1 | 752 | 1.2K | 285 |
| 20 | PLoS Biology | 3 | 750 | 544 | 528 |
| 21 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 6 | 710 | 4.8K | 11.4K |
| 22 | Journal of Biogeography | 4 | 651 | 394 | 115 |
| 23 | AoB PLANTS | 8 | 640 | 1 | 1 |
| 24 | New Phytologist | 4 | 634 | 1.7K | 879 |
| 25 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 6 | 526 | 159 | 252 |
| 26 | Journal of Travel Research | 1 | 511 | 381 | 71 |
| 27 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 3 | 504 | 114 | 255 |
| 28 | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 1 | 469 | 2.2K | 222 |
| 29 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2 | 422 | 5 | 209 |
| 30 | Restoration Ecology | 2 | 401 | 452 | 58 |
| 31 | Environmental Management | 7 | 390 | 13 | 61 |
| 32 | Plant Ecology | 3 | 303 | 177 | 43 |
| 33 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 299 | 539 | 415 |
| 34 | Ecosystem Services | 3 | 288 | 155 | 163 |
| 35 | Biodiversity and Conservation | 4 | 264 | 183 | 219 |
| 36 | Ecology Letters | 2 | 253 | 1.2K | 2.1K |
| 37 | Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics | 3 | 232 | 49 | 82 |
| 38 | Ecological Applications | 3 | 228 | 440 | 725 |
| 39 | Journal of Vegetation Science | 3 | 220 | 417 | 292 |
| 40 | Journal of Ecology | 4 | 218 | 498 | 1.1K |
| 41 | Bothalia | 4 | 209 | 12 | 3 |
| 42 | Nature Communications | 3 | 195 | 20.9K | 45.2K |
| 43 | Ecological Modelling | 2 | 174 | 822 | 519 |
| 44 | Forest Ecology and Management | 3 | 160 | 1.5K | 1.4K |
| 45 | Environment, Development and Sustainability | 1 | 145 | 759 | 92 |
| 46 | South African Forestry Journal | 5 | 134 | 3 | 3 |
| 47 | Biology Letters | 1 | 133 | 1.7K | 697 |
| 48 | Ambio | 2 | 128 | 359 | 671 |
| 49 | Forest Ecosystems | 4 | 127 | 12 | 23 |
| 50 | Ecological Studies | 4 | 126 | 42 | 39 |
| 51 | PLoS ONE | 3 | 121 | 52.2K | 63.3K |
| 52 | Environmental Reviews | 1 | 110 | 101 | 88 |
| 53 | Landscape and Urban Planning | 1 | 103 | 959 | 1.0K |
| 54 | Southern Forests | 3 | 102 | 33 | 13 |
| 55 | Physical Review B | 2 | 95 | 23.2K | 19.5K |
| 56 | Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa | 4 | 93 | 7 | 4 |
| 57 | Royal Society Open Science | 1 | 87 | 2.2K | 583 |
| 58 | Journal of Arid Environments | 2 | 81 | 212 | 279 |
| 59 | Oikos | 2 | 80 | 1.0K | 1.9K |
| 60 | Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics | 1 | 79 | 2.5K | 1.7K |
| 61 | Ecosphere | 2 | 76 | 881 | 962 |
| 62 | Oecologia | 1 | 73 | 3.2K | 3.5K |
| 62 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 2 | 73 | 195 | 797 |
| 64 | Ecoscience | 1 | 72 | 264 | 190 |
| 65 | Advanced Materials | 1 | 69 | 15.9K | 28.3K |
| 66 | Archives of Disease in Childhood | 1 | 63 | 1.5K | 1.2K |
| 67 | Scientific Reports | 1 | 62 | 55.6K | 64.0K |
| 67 | ACS Central Science | 1 | 62 | 861 | 2.2K |
| 69 | Ecography | 2 | 60 | 684 | 1.8K |
| 70 | Environmental Science and Policy | 1 | 55 | 883 | 1.4K |
| 71 | Invasive Plant Science and Management | 2 | 54 | 62 | 37 |
| 72 | Journal of Urology | 1 | 50 | 3.0K | 3.7K |
| 72 | African Journal of Ecology | 2 | 50 | 231 | 185 |
| 74 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 1 | 47 | 2.9K | 3.8K |
| 74 | Microbial Ecology | 1 | 47 | 1.3K | 2.2K |
| 74 | South African Journal of Science | 2 | 47 | 182 | 84 |
| 77 | Space Science Reviews | 1 | 46 | 1.7K | 2.8K |
| 78 | Molecular Microbiology | 1 | 45 | 3.8K | 7.1K |
| 79 | Science | 1 | 41 | 11.5K | 39.6K |
| 79 | Sustainability | 2 | 41 | 15.0K | 15.6K |
| 79 | Tree Genetics and Genomes | 2 | 41 | 327 | 679 |
| 82 | Plants People Planet | 1 | 38 | 166 | 187 |
| 83 | Molecular Ecology | 1 | 34 | 4.5K | 9.0K |
| 83 | Global Environmental Change | 1 | 34 | 803 | 2.4K |
| 85 | PeerJ | 1 | 32 | 4.9K | 5.2K |
| 86 | Geographical Research | 1 | 31 | 179 | 132 |
| 87 | River Research and Applications | 1 | 29 | 574 | 693 |
| 87 | Social Development | 1 | 29 | 331 | 528 |
| 89 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 27 | 6.2K | 11.9K |
| 89 | Applied Vegetation Science | 1 | 27 | 614 | 845 |
| 91 | JCI Insight | 1 | 26 | 3.8K | 10.3K |
| 92 | American Midland Naturalist | 2 | 25 | 59 | 265 |
| 92 | Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics | 1 | 25 | 1.6K | 1.9K |
| 92 | Plant Biology | 1 | 25 | 503 | 854 |
| 95 | Acta Oecologica | 1 | 23 | 527 | 1.1K |
| 95 | GCB Bioenergy | 1 | 23 | 694 | 1.5K |
| 97 | Physical Review Letters | 1 | 20 | 41.8K | 64.9K |
| 97 | Science Signaling | 1 | 20 | 1.3K | 7.2K |
| 97 | BMC Ecology | 1 | 20 | 88 | 712 |
| 100 | International Journal of Cardiology | 1 | 19 | 9.2K | 12.9K |
| 100 | Geoderma | 1 | 19 | 2.5K | 5.3K |
| 102 | Plants | 1 | 17 | 9.5K | 8.3K |
| 102 | Bird Conservation International | 1 | 17 | 246 | 354 |
| 102 | Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants | 1 | 17 | 396 | 861 |
| 105 | Annals of Applied Biology | 1 | 16 | 279 | 926 |
| 106 | Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 15 | 2.5K | 11.7K |
| 106 | Journal for Nature Conservation | 1 | 15 | 269 | 878 |
| 106 | Current Forestry Reports | 1 | 15 | 46 | 348 |
| 109 | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 1 | 14 | 28.1K | 62.6K |
| 109 | Biotropica | 1 | 14 | 1.0K | 2.2K |
| 109 | Ocean and Coastal Management | 1 | 14 | 1.1K | 2.8K |
| 109 | Frontiers of Biogeography | 2 | 14 | 22 | 83 |
| 113 | Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine | 1 | 13 | 501 | 1.2K |
| 113 | Regional Environmental Change | 1 | 13 | 743 | 2.7K |
| 115 | Journal of Economic Entomology | 1 | 12 | 1.4K | 2.7K |
| 115 | American Journal of Botany | 1 | 12 | 1.9K | 4.8K |
| 115 | CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology | 1 | 12 | 1.4K | 2.8K |
| 115 | Journal of Environmental Sciences | 1 | 12 | 1.6K | 5.1K |
| 119 | Plant and Soil | 1 | 11 | 3.3K | 9.1K |
| 119 | Journal of Periodontology | 1 | 11 | 1.4K | 4.2K |
| 119 | Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions | 1 | 11 | 2.8K | 4.8K |
| 122 | Cancer Letters | 1 | 10 | 3.8K | 15.1K |
| 122 | Applied Sciences (Switzerland) | 1 | 10 | 28.8K | 37.1K |
| 122 | Journal of Nursing Administration | 1 | 10 | 116 | 305 |
| 122 | Managing Forest Ecosystems | 2 | 10 | 43 | 131 |
| 126 | Acta Horticulturae | 1 | 9 | 751 | 586 |
| 126 | ISA Transactions | 1 | 9 | 1.5K | 4.0K |
| 126 | World Sustainability Series | 1 | 9 | 103 | 73 |
| 129 | Journal of Luminescence | 1 | 8 | 3.1K | 6.8K |
| 129 | Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters | 1 | 8 | 9.9K | 22.6K |
| 129 | Waterbirds | 1 | 8 | 151 | 392 |
| 129 | African Entomology | 1 | 8 | 60 | 108 |
| 133 | Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics | 1 | 7 | 7.6K | 12.5K |
| 133 | Cancer Science | 1 | 7 | 2.8K | 9.5K |
| 133 | Urban Ecosystems | 1 | 7 | 333 | 1.6K |
| 136 | Nature | 1 | 6 | 34.8K | 64.9K |
| 136 | European Urology | 1 | 6 | 2.6K | 5.9K |
| 136 | European Physical Journal C | 1 | 6 | 16.9K | 43.7K |
| 136 | Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience | 1 | 6 | 2.2K | 9.0K |
| 140 | Home Health Care Management and Practice | 1 | 5 | 58 | 153 |
| 140 | Southern African Geographical Journal | 1 | 5 | 74 | 193 |
| 140 | Biodiversity Data Journal | 1 | 5 | 344 | 847 |
| 143 | Journal of Emergency Medicine | 1 | 4 | 957 | 2.5K |
| 143 | Neurophysiology | 1 | 4 | 44 | 86 |
| 145 | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open | 1 | 3 | 799 | 2.1K |
| 145 | Evolutionary Ecology | 1 | 3 | 467 | 2.1K |
| 145 | Biofuels | 1 | 3 | 224 | 1.1K |
| 145 | Journal of Carbon Research | 1 | 3 | 238 | 801 |
| 145 | Schizophrenia | 1 | 3 | 121 | 315 |
| 150 | BMC Public Health | 1 | 2 | 9.7K | 32.6K |
| 150 | ChemistrySelect | 1 | 2 | 6.2K | 18.4K |
| 150 | Psychophysiology | 1 | 2 | 1.3K | 4.6K |
| 150 | Insect Molecular Biology | 1 | 2 | 157 | 953 |
| 150 | Fungal Biology | 1 | 2 | 586 | 2.4K |
| 150 | Ecological Solutions and Evidence | 1 | 2 | 143 | 646 |
| 156 | Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology | 1 | 1 | 1.2K | 3.8K |
| 156 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 1 | 1.9K | 9.6K |
| 158 | Blood | 1 | 0 | 26.7K | 56.6K |
| 158 | Alzheimer's and Dementia | 1 | 0 | 5.6K | 9.4K |
| 158 | Ukrainian Mathematical Journal | 1 | 0 | 69 | 416 |
| 158 | Indoor and Built Environment | 1 | 0 | 283 | 1.4K |
| 158 | BMJ Global Health | 1 | 0 | 1.8K | 6.6K |
