| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Science | 7 | 6,866 | 1.5K | 793 |
| 2 | Ecological Monographs | 5 | 6,684 | 16 | 5 |
| 3 | Ecology Letters | 19 | 5,096 | 11 | 30 |
| 4 | Nature | 7 | 4,686 | 2.3K | 3.6K |
| 5 | Ecology | 38 | 3,450 | 4 | 42 |
| 6 | Journal of Ecology | 26 | 1,954 | 5 | 26 |
| 7 | Basic and Applied Ecology | 19 | 1,714 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | Oecologia | 20 | 1,671 | 18 | 55 |
| 9 | Global Change Biology | 8 | 1,598 | 398 | 397 |
| 10 | Oikos | 19 | 1,453 | 10 | 34 |
| 11 | PLoS ONE | 26 | 1,218 | 167 | 741 |
| 12 | Journal of Plant Ecology | 28 | 986 | 1 | 4 |
| 13 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 8 | 958 | 86 | 99 |
| 14 | Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics | 12 | 849 | 1 | 15 |
| 15 | Nature Communications | 6 | 721 | 3.2K | 6.1K |
| 16 | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 12 | 646 | 203 | 344 |
| 17 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 8 | 559 | 9 | 191 |
| 18 | American Journal of Botany | 3 | 502 | 731 | 211 |
| 19 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 3 | 433 | 494 | 1.1K |
| 20 | Functional Ecology | 6 | 430 | 107 | 217 |
| 21 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 4 | 416 | 1.1K | 1.1K |
| 22 | Journal of Animal Ecology | 4 | 383 | 337 | 316 |
| 23 | Molecular Ecology | 4 | 316 | 1.1K | 1.2K |
| 24 | Plant and Soil | 1 | 263 | 3.8K | 892 |
| 25 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 3 | 242 | 402 | 238 |
| 26 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 240 | 436 | 584 |
| 27 | National Science Review | 2 | 189 | 178 | 327 |
| 28 | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2 | 188 | 2.3K | 2.7K |
| 29 | New Phytologist | 3 | 184 | 2.2K | 4.2K |
| 30 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 169 | 2.6K | 2.3K |
| 31 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2 | 166 | 904 | 1.3K |
| 32 | Conservation Genetics | 4 | 160 | 154 | 121 |
| 33 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2 | 148 | 27.6K | 64.8K |
| 34 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2 | 137 | 1.8K | 2.2K |
| 35 | European Journal of Forest Research | 1 | 135 | 613 | 113 |
| 36 | Ecology and Evolution | 5 | 129 | 224 | 925 |
| 37 | American Naturalist | 2 | 121 | 910 | 1.6K |
| 38 | Advances in Ecological Research | 3 | 119 | 43 | 270 |
| 39 | Landscape and Urban Planning | 1 | 116 | 1.1K | 1.0K |
| 40 | Ecosphere | 2 | 114 | 750 | 488 |
| 41 | Science of the Total Environment | 2 | 111 | 15.6K | 15.6K |
| 42 | Canadian Journal of Botany | 1 | 109 | 504 | 236 |
| 43 | ELife | 1 | 100 | 10.2K | 10.2K |
| 44 | Journal of Tropical Ecology | 1 | 93 | 533 | 289 |
| 45 | Annals of Botany | 1 | 80 | 2.1K | 2.0K |
| 46 | Science Advances | 1 | 72 | 8.1K | 19.0K |
| 47 | Revue Suisse De Zoologie | 1 | 68 | 39 | 2 |
| 48 | Current Biology | 2 | 66 | 3.3K | 13.6K |
| 48 | Biological Conservation | 1 | 66 | 3.7K | 4.9K |
| 48 | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2 | 66 | 723 | 1.2K |
| 51 | BMC Microbiology | 1 | 65 | 1.6K | 2.0K |
| 52 | Outlook on Agriculture | 1 | 63 | 127 | 33 |
| 53 | Plant Biotechnology Journal | 1 | 61 | 1.7K | 2.9K |
| 54 | Plant, Cell and Environment | 1 | 59 | 2.3K | 3.8K |
| 54 | Biodiversity and Conservation | 1 | 59 | 1.7K | 1.8K |
| 56 | Journal of Plant Research | 1 | 57 | 470 | 397 |
| 56 | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 3 | 57 | 108 | 1.0K |
| 58 | Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants | 2 | 54 | 268 | 274 |
| 58 | Biogeosciences | 1 | 54 | 3.4K | 3.6K |
| 60 | Heredity | 1 | 52 | 1.1K | 1.5K |
| 61 | Plant Physiology | 1 | 49 | 7.9K | 12.8K |
| 61 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 1 | 49 | 903 | 2.3K |
| 63 | Ecological Applications | 2 | 47 | 431 | 2.1K |
| 64 | Ecological Economics | 2 | 46 | 766 | 2.7K |
| 64 | Acta Oecologica | 3 | 46 | 102 | 594 |
| 66 | Environmental Research Letters | 1 | 39 | 4.0K | 5.5K |
| 67 | Restoration Ecology | 2 | 36 | 428 | 1.3K |
| 68 | Ecological Indicators | 1 | 35 | 3.9K | 5.8K |
| 68 | Science China Life Sciences | 1 | 35 | 860 | 967 |
| 70 | Ambio | 1 | 34 | 1.1K | 2.2K |
| 71 | Conservation Biology | 1 | 33 | 2.0K | 4.3K |
| 72 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 1 | 31 | 2.7K | 3.6K |
| 73 | Nature Plants | 1 | 30 | 944 | 4.3K |
| 74 | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2 | 25 | 342 | 1.7K |
| 74 | Folia Geobotanica | 2 | 25 | 88 | 301 |
| 76 | Forest Ecosystems | 1 | 22 | 97 | 246 |
| 77 | Alpine Botany | 2 | 21 | 31 | 153 |
| 78 | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 1 | 18 | 2.7K | 5.3K |
| 78 | Ecography | 1 | 18 | 1.6K | 4.1K |
| 78 | Gaia | 3 | 18 | 43 | 199 |
| 78 | Plant Ecology and Diversity | 1 | 18 | 223 | 494 |
| 82 | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing | 1 | 16 | 2.8K | 4.8K |
| 83 | African Journal of Ecology | 1 | 12 | 498 | 671 |
| 83 | Trees - Structure and Function | 2 | 12 | 476 | 2.5K |
| 85 | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews | 1 | 9 | 37 | 126 |
| 86 | Open Journal of Ecology | 1 | 7 | 21 | 76 |
| 87 | Spatial Statistics | 1 | 6 | 184 | 526 |
| 87 | Ecosystems | 1 | 6 | 1.2K | 4.2K |
| 89 | Biological Invasions | 1 | 5 | 1.8K | 5.7K |
| 89 | Biologie in Unserer Zeit | 1 | 5 | 22 | 27 |
| 91 | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences | 1 | 4 | 21 | 61 |
| 92 | Plant Systematics and Evolution | 1 | 2 | 911 | 2.8K |
| 93 | Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters | 1 | 1 | 8.0K | 19.8K |
| 93 | BMC Biology | 1 | 1 | 706 | 6.5K |
| 95 | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 1 | 0 | 2.6K | 8.4K |
| 95 | New Biotechnology | 1 | 0 | 631 | 2.7K |
