| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Diversity and Distributions | 42 | 9,470 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 13 | 4,195 | 17 | 30 |
| 3 | Biological Invasions | 47 | 3,109 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Biological Reviews | 5 | 2,521 | 9 | 22 |
| 5 | BioScience | 9 | 2,433 | 17 | 38 |
| 6 | Ecology | 5 | 1,958 | 820 | 137 |
| 7 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 6 | 1,797 | 171 | 28 |
| 8 | Conservation Biology | 10 | 1,342 | 79 | 72 |
| 9 | Global Change Biology | 5 | 1,324 | 934 | 545 |
| 10 | Progress in Physical Geography | 3 | 1,313 | 29 | 3 |
| 11 | Biological Conservation | 10 | 1,282 | 115 | 80 |
| 12 | American Naturalist | 3 | 1,264 | 555 | 97 |
| 13 | Journal of Environmental Management | 11 | 1,204 | 55 | 51 |
| 14 | Taxon | 1 | 978 | 1.3K | 35 |
| 15 | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 1 | 936 | 92 | 25 |
| 16 | Austral Ecology | 11 | 854 | 21 | 12 |
| 17 | Annals of Botany | 4 | 831 | 375 | 72 |
| 18 | South African Journal of Botany | 28 | 820 | 14 | 7 |
| 19 | Trends in Plant Science | 1 | 724 | 1.1K | 302 |
| 20 | PLoS Biology | 3 | 709 | 256 | 743 |
| 21 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 6 | 684 | 4.8K | 13.1K |
| 22 | Journal of Biogeography | 4 | 635 | 406 | 135 |
| 23 | New Phytologist | 4 | 611 | 1.5K | 956 |
| 24 | AoB PLANTS | 9 | 603 | 1 | 1 |
| 25 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 4 | 530 | 80 | 310 |
| 26 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 6 | 518 | 168 | 278 |
| 27 | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 1 | 461 | 2.6K | 294 |
| 28 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2 | 409 | 5 | 236 |
| 29 | Restoration Ecology | 2 | 380 | 429 | 65 |
| 30 | Environmental Management | 7 | 377 | 18 | 75 |
| 31 | Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi | 2 | 326 | 99 | 97 |
| 32 | Ecosystem Services | 3 | 278 | 182 | 204 |
| 33 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 270 | 436 | 439 |
| 34 | Biodiversity and Conservation | 4 | 252 | 209 | 257 |
| 35 | Ecology Letters | 2 | 245 | 1.2K | 2.3K |
| 36 | Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics | 3 | 224 | 51 | 94 |
| 37 | Journal of Vegetation Science | 3 | 217 | 481 | 406 |
| 38 | Journal of Ecology | 4 | 213 | 470 | 1.1K |
| 39 | Bothalia | 4 | 199 | 13 | 3 |
| 40 | Nature | 1 | 197 | 32.1K | 64.5K |
| 41 | Ambio | 3 | 186 | 233 | 476 |
| 42 | Ecological Modelling | 2 | 174 | 1.1K | 685 |
| 43 | Nature Communications | 2 | 171 | 25.4K | 47.4K |
| 44 | Forest Ecology and Management | 3 | 155 | 1.8K | 1.8K |
| 45 | Plant Ecology | 2 | 143 | 393 | 228 |
| 45 | Environment, Development and Sustainability | 1 | 143 | 751 | 92 |
| 47 | South African Forestry Journal | 5 | 134 | 5 | 4 |
| 48 | Biology Letters | 1 | 130 | 1.7K | 758 |
| 49 | Ecological Studies | 4 | 122 | 45 | 50 |
| 50 | Forest Ecosystems | 4 | 115 | 11 | 25 |
| 51 | Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa | 5 | 112 | 3 | 5 |
| 52 | PLoS ONE | 2 | 106 | 49.2K | 64.5K |
| 53 | Environmental Reviews | 2 | 99 | 38 | 131 |
| 54 | Landscape and Urban Planning | 1 | 97 | 1.1K | 1.2K |
| 55 | Southern Forests | 2 | 96 | 56 | 16 |
| 56 | Royal Society Open Science | 1 | 82 | 1.8K | 582 |
| 57 | Journal of Arid Environments | 2 | 78 | 368 | 543 |
| 58 | Oecologia | 1 | 72 | 3.5K | 3.6K |
| 58 | Ecoscience | 1 | 72 | 296 | 225 |
| 60 | Ecosphere | 2 | 71 | 750 | 1.0K |
| 61 | Ecological Applications | 2 | 68 | 431 | 1.5K |
| 62 | Ecography | 2 | 58 | 720 | 2.0K |
| 63 | Scientific Reports | 1 | 54 | 51.9K | 64.7K |
| 64 | Invasive Plant Science and Management | 2 | 53 | 66 | 47 |
| 65 | Environmental Science and Policy | 1 | 50 | 1.0K | 1.8K |
| 66 | Animal Conservation | 1 | 47 | 484 | 547 |
| 67 | Microbial Ecology | 1 | 46 | 1.6K | 2.4K |
| 67 | South African Journal of Science | 2 | 46 | 136 | 86 |
| 69 | African Journal of Ecology | 2 | 45 | 225 | 199 |
| 70 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 1 | 44 | 3.3K | 4.5K |
| 71 | Tree Genetics and Genomes | 2 | 40 | 373 | 766 |
| 72 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 1 | 39 | 515 | 1.4K |
| 73 | Science | 1 | 38 | 25.9K | 64.8K |
| 73 | International Journal of Wildland Fire | 1 | 38 | 550 | 738 |
| 75 | Oikos | 1 | 36 | 2.3K | 3.6K |
| 75 | Plants People Planet | 1 | 36 | 94 | 159 |
| 77 | Molecular Ecology | 1 | 34 | 4.9K | 8.7K |
| 78 | Global Environmental Change | 1 | 33 | 907 | 2.8K |
| 79 | PeerJ | 1 | 29 | 5.5K | 6.1K |
| 79 | Geographical Research | 1 | 29 | 171 | 156 |
| 81 | River Research and Applications | 1 | 28 | 599 | 727 |
| 82 | Applied Vegetation Science | 1 | 27 | 623 | 879 |
| 83 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 25 | 6.2K | 13.2K |
| 83 | American Midland Naturalist | 2 | 25 | 76 | 336 |
| 85 | Plant Biology | 1 | 24 | 671 | 1.3K |
| 86 | Acta Oecologica | 1 | 23 | 596 | 1.2K |
| 87 | GCB Bioenergy | 1 | 21 | 705 | 1.5K |
| 88 | BMC Ecology | 1 | 20 | 93 | 717 |
| 89 | Geoderma | 1 | 18 | 2.8K | 6.0K |
| 90 | Plants | 1 | 17 | 4.9K | 6.4K |
| 91 | Annals of Applied Biology | 1 | 16 | 442 | 1.1K |
| 91 | Bird Conservation International | 1 | 16 | 268 | 429 |
| 93 | Koedoe | 1 | 15 | 85 | 97 |
| 94 | Biotropica | 1 | 14 | 1.1K | 2.2K |
| 94 | Journal for Nature Conservation | 1 | 14 | 281 | 986 |
| 94 | Current Forestry Reports | 1 | 14 | 40 | 321 |
| 97 | Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 13 | 5.2K | 11.5K |
| 97 | Regional Environmental Change | 1 | 13 | 817 | 2.9K |
| 97 | International Journal of Remote Sensing | 1 | 13 | 2.4K | 5.0K |
| 100 | American Journal of Botany | 1 | 11 | 2.1K | 4.3K |
| 100 | Frontiers of Biogeography | 2 | 11 | 26 | 99 |
| 102 | Journal of Economic Entomology | 1 | 10 | 1.6K | 2.6K |
| 102 | Plant and Soil | 1 | 10 | 3.8K | 9.1K |
| 102 | Journal of Nursing Administration | 1 | 10 | 149 | 325 |
| 102 | Managing Forest Ecosystems | 2 | 10 | 42 | 144 |
| 106 | Acta Horticulturae | 1 | 9 | 1.8K | 1.1K |
| 107 | Waterbirds | 1 | 8 | 183 | 386 |
| 107 | African Entomology | 1 | 8 | 81 | 138 |
| 107 | World Sustainability Series | 1 | 8 | 97 | 76 |
| 110 | Human Ecology | 1 | 7 | 302 | 1.1K |
| 111 | Urban Ecosystems | 1 | 6 | 341 | 1.6K |
| 112 | Biodiversity Data Journal | 1 | 5 | 420 | 1.1K |
| 113 | Journal of Emergency Medicine | 1 | 4 | 1.0K | 2.6K |
| 113 | Southern African Geographical Journal | 1 | 4 | 86 | 223 |
| 115 | Biofuels | 1 | 3 | 249 | 1.2K |
| 116 | Evolutionary Ecology | 1 | 2 | 514 | 2.3K |
| 116 | Fungal Biology | 1 | 2 | 585 | 2.5K |
| 118 | Indoor and Built Environment | 1 | 0 | 310 | 1.4K |
