| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Freshwater Biology | 16 | 3,487 | 32 | 6 |
| 2 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 16 | 2,348 | 2 | 17 |
| 3 | Conservation Biology | 11 | 2,139 | 68 | 25 |
| 4 | Biological Reviews | 1 | 1,766 | 485 | 39 |
| 5 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 4 | 1,588 | 10.0K | 3.5K |
| 6 | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 10 | 1,407 | 88 | 21 |
| 7 | BioScience | 5 | 1,310 | 81 | 143 |
| 8 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 1,159 | 1.9K | 323 |
| 9 | River Research and Applications | 4 | 1,151 | 99 | 2 |
| 10 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 6 | 1,086 | 171 | 79 |
| 11 | Nature Communications | 2 | 952 | 25.4K | 3.8K |
| 12 | Fisheries | 9 | 856 | 7 | 7 |
| 13 | Ecological Modelling | 1 | 815 | 2.4K | 95 |
| 14 | Journal of Biogeography | 5 | 761 | 282 | 101 |
| 15 | Journal of the North American Benthological Society | 1 | 704 | 254 | 30 |
| 16 | Diversity and Distributions | 7 | 617 | 52 | 96 |
| 17 | Ecology | 4 | 584 | 1.1K | 866 |
| 18 | Quarterly Review of Biology | 1 | 561 | 113 | 36 |
| 19 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 530 | 436 | 184 |
| 20 | American Naturalist | 1 | 408 | 1.7K | 494 |
| 21 | Ecological Monographs | 1 | 382 | 435 | 292 |
| 22 | Freshwater Science | 4 | 338 | 35 | 6 |
| 23 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 5 | 307 | 757 | 1.6K |
| 24 | Transactions of the American Fisheries Society | 6 | 305 | 112 | 71 |
| 25 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 259 | 449 | 857 |
| 26 | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water | 5 | 256 | 3 | 23 |
| 27 | Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems | 6 | 248 | 60 | 122 |
| 28 | Global Change Biology | 4 | 224 | 1.3K | 4.3K |
| 29 | Nature Sustainability | 4 | 218 | 16 | 547 |
| 30 | Nature Climate Change | 1 | 217 | 2.0K | 2.7K |
| 31 | Ecohydrology | 2 | 211 | 304 | 63 |
| 32 | Comptes Rendus - Geoscience | 1 | 206 | 450 | 57 |
| 33 | Ecological Applications | 3 | 197 | 200 | 334 |
| 34 | PLoS ONE | 7 | 195 | 9.4K | 32.2K |
| 35 | Oecologia | 3 | 185 | 1.1K | 1.5K |
| 36 | Hydrobiologia | 7 | 169 | 293 | 672 |
| 37 | Biological Invasions | 2 | 166 | 813 | 411 |
| 38 | Nature | 1 | 142 | 32.1K | 64.9K |
| 39 | Ecosphere | 6 | 141 | 56 | 340 |
| 40 | Landscape Ecology | 2 | 133 | 559 | 636 |
| 41 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 3 | 132 | 578 | 1.7K |
| 42 | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2 | 128 | 941 | 1.2K |
| 43 | Ecoscience | 1 | 121 | 296 | 114 |
| 44 | Ecological Indicators | 2 | 94 | 1.6K | 2.2K |
| 45 | Biological Conservation | 1 | 92 | 3.7K | 3.8K |
| 46 | Ecology Letters | 2 | 87 | 1.2K | 4.3K |
| 47 | Ecography | 4 | 82 | 249 | 1.5K |
| 48 | Fish and Fisheries | 3 | 77 | 127 | 785 |
| 49 | Molecular Ecology | 1 | 76 | 4.9K | 5.1K |
| 50 | Elementa | 1 | 75 | 423 | 423 |
| 51 | Environmental Research | 1 | 74 | 5.5K | 4.2K |
| 52 | Science | 1 | 65 | 25.8K | 65.0K |
| 53 | Marine Biology | 1 | 63 | 2.1K | 1.5K |
| 53 | Reviews in Fisheries Science | 1 | 63 | 56 | 149 |
| 55 | Conservation Letters | 1 | 61 | 641 | 1.2K |
| 56 | Geophysical Research Letters | 1 | 54 | 16.5K | 16.1K |
| 57 | Water (Switzerland) | 2 | 53 | 3.9K | 3.3K |
| 58 | Environmental Research Letters | 1 | 47 | 4.0K | 4.8K |
| 59 | Journal of Environmental Planning and Management | 1 | 42 | 436 | 500 |
| 60 | Ecology of Freshwater Fish | 2 | 41 | 163 | 292 |
| 61 | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 1 | 38 | 940 | 1.1K |
| 62 | Science of the Total Environment | 1 | 33 | 28.4K | 40.4K |
| 63 | Limnology | 1 | 32 | 157 | 134 |
| 64 | Aquatic Ecology | 1 | 31 | 348 | 472 |
| 65 | Invasive Plant Science and Management | 1 | 30 | 129 | 111 |
| 66 | PeerJ | 1 | 29 | 5.5K | 6.1K |
| 66 | Environmental Evidence | 2 | 29 | 78 | 211 |
| 68 | Northwest Science | 6 | 20 | 2 | 50 |
| 69 | Ecological Solutions and Evidence | 2 | 19 | 12 | 130 |
| 70 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 17 | 2.6K | 10.6K |
| 70 | Neotropical Ichthyology | 1 | 17 | 484 | 473 |
| 70 | Conservation Science and Practice | 2 | 17 | 106 | 421 |
| 73 | Crustaceana | 1 | 16 | 330 | 298 |
| 73 | Aquatic Sciences | 1 | 16 | 523 | 1.2K |
| 75 | Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries | 1 | 12 | 339 | 1.2K |
| 76 | Remote Sensing | 1 | 11 | 13.9K | 23.2K |
| 76 | Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture | 1 | 11 | 90 | 485 |
| 78 | Journal of Hydrology | 1 | 10 | 5.7K | 12.0K |
| 78 | Environmental Management | 1 | 10 | 1.0K | 4.0K |
| 78 | Eos | 1 | 10 | 881 | 2.1K |
| 81 | Environmental Biology of Fishes | 1 | 9 | 922 | 1.9K |
| 82 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 1 | 8 | 28.6K | 53.2K |
| 82 | Conservation Genetics | 1 | 8 | 1.0K | 3.0K |
| 84 | Conservation Genetics Resources | 1 | 7 | 747 | 1.1K |
| 85 | Diversity | 1 | 6 | 982 | 3.2K |
