| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Astrobiology | 72 | 3,207 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Science | 4 | 1,402 | 4.1K | 10.8K |
| 3 | Icarus | 11 | 1,068 | 461 | 179 |
| 4 | Biological Reviews | 2 | 775 | 151 | 165 |
| 5 | Space Science Reviews | 5 | 528 | 338 | 436 |
| 6 | International Journal of Astrobiology | 27 | 515 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Planetary and Space Science | 8 | 436 | 218 | 152 |
| 8 | Meteoritics and Planetary Science | 9 | 376 | 218 | 171 |
| 9 | Trends in Microbiology | 3 | 311 | 96 | 418 |
| 10 | Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | 1 | 281 | 29 | 57 |
| 11 | Nature Geoscience | 1 | 277 | 2.3K | 2.0K |
| 12 | Experimental Astronomy | 4 | 276 | 152 | 338 |
| 13 | Environmental Microbiology | 4 | 271 | 760 | 1.2K |
| 14 | Geomicrobiology Journal | 10 | 246 | 12 | 64 |
| 15 | Nature | 2 | 237 | 16.0K | 60.0K |
| 16 | Microbial Ecology | 4 | 193 | 191 | 425 |
| 17 | Geobiology | 6 | 186 | 29 | 86 |
| 18 | Photochemistry and Photobiology | 5 | 184 | 341 | 373 |
| 19 | Journal of Microbiological Methods | 2 | 177 | 416 | 270 |
| 20 | Scientific Reports | 7 | 175 | 3.7K | 17.8K |
| 21 | Organic Geochemistry | 1 | 167 | 993 | 454 |
| 22 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 1 | 161 | 2.7K | 807 |
| 23 | Nature Communications | 2 | 146 | 25.4K | 55.9K |
| 24 | Analyst, The | 2 | 141 | 2.5K | 1.5K |
| 25 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 8 | 139 | 546 | 4.6K |
| 26 | Space Policy | 7 | 135 | 2 | 3 |
| 27 | Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology | 2 | 119 | 811 | 823 |
| 28 | Polar Biology | 3 | 110 | 506 | 445 |
| 29 | ISME Journal | 1 | 108 | 2.7K | 3.6K |
| 30 | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews | 8 | 98 | 1 | 13 |
| 31 | Nature Astronomy | 4 | 96 | 90 | 1.2K |
| 32 | Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres | 3 | 94 | 55 | 82 |
| 33 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2 | 84 | 4.8K | 9.0K |
| 34 | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 1 | 75 | 432 | 1.5K |
| 35 | PLoS ONE | 2 | 73 | 49.2K | 64.5K |
| 36 | Science Advances | 1 | 69 | 8.1K | 19.8K |
| 37 | Geology | 2 | 65 | 2.0K | 4.5K |
| 38 | Reviews of Geophysics | 1 | 63 | 313 | 1.7K |
| 39 | Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research | 2 | 58 | 194 | 347 |
| 40 | Astronomy and Geophysics | 4 | 56 | 16 | 19 |
| 41 | PLoS Biology | 1 | 48 | 2.5K | 10.9K |
| 41 | Oryx | 1 | 48 | 616 | 494 |
| 43 | Acta Astronautica | 5 | 47 | 263 | 999 |
| 43 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 3 | 47 | 659 | 3.3K |
| 45 | Philosophical Transactions Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences | 2 | 44 | 578 | 2.8K |
| 46 | Journal of Geophysical Research | 1 | 42 | 11.1K | 14.9K |
| 46 | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 1 | 42 | 7.5K | 8.1K |
| 48 | Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | 1 | 40 | 1.9K | 2.0K |
| 49 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 38 | 882 | 4.4K |
| 49 | Antarctic Science | 2 | 38 | 245 | 536 |
| 51 | Astrophysical Journal | 1 | 37 | 17.2K | 16.5K |
| 51 | Paleobiology | 1 | 37 | 366 | 544 |
| 53 | Journal of Biosciences | 1 | 35 | 604 | 520 |
| 54 | Comparative and Functional Genomics | 1 | 34 | 53 | 178 |
| 54 | Biogeosciences | 1 | 34 | 3.4K | 4.8K |
| 56 | Microbial Biotechnology | 2 | 33 | 227 | 1.4K |
| 57 | Journal of Raman Spectroscopy | 1 | 32 | 1.9K | 2.1K |
| 58 | Micromachines | 1 | 31 | 2.9K | 2.1K |
| 59 | Ecology Letters | 1 | 30 | 2.6K | 6.3K |
| 60 | Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek | 1 | 27 | 1.1K | 1.8K |
| 61 | Extremophiles | 1 | 26 | 647 | 1.2K |
| 61 | Eos | 1 | 26 | 881 | 1.2K |
| 63 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 1 | 25 | 3.7K | 5.8K |
| 63 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1 | 25 | 1.7K | 2.4K |
| 65 | Journal of the Royal Society Interface | 3 | 23 | 391 | 4.8K |
| 66 | Advances in Space Research | 2 | 20 | 1.7K | 3.4K |
| 67 | Diversity | 1 | 19 | 982 | 1.1K |
| 68 | Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences | 1 | 18 | 1.5K | 3.0K |
| 68 | Earth, Moon and Planets | 1 | 18 | 212 | 233 |
| 70 | Climatic Change | 1 | 17 | 2.0K | 5.4K |
| 70 | Studies in Space Policy | 1 | 17 | 10 | 2 |
| 72 | Microorganisms | 1 | 16 | 4.4K | 7.7K |
| 73 | Ethics and the Environment | 1 | 15 | 5 | 8 |
| 74 | EMBO Reports | 1 | 14 | 1.6K | 8.9K |
| 74 | Communications Biology | 1 | 14 | 1.5K | 10.4K |
| 74 | Microbiome | 1 | 14 | 924 | 4.5K |
| 74 | Plant Ecology and Diversity | 2 | 14 | 84 | 601 |
| 74 | Earth and Space Science | 1 | 14 | 636 | 1.2K |
| 79 | Current Issues in Molecular Biology | 2 | 13 | 18 | 469 |
| 80 | AGU Advances | 1 | 12 | 47 | 326 |
| 81 | Applied Spectroscopy | 1 | 11 | 1.2K | 2.7K |
| 82 | Mineralogical Magazine | 2 | 10 | 288 | 943 |
| 82 | Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets | 1 | 10 | 1.5K | 2.3K |
| 82 | Biology | 1 | 10 | 1.5K | 4.0K |
| 85 | Molecular Biology of the Cell | 1 | 8 | 3.2K | 10.3K |
| 86 | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | 1 | 6 | 22.7K | 47.7K |
| 86 | Chemical Geology | 1 | 6 | 3.3K | 7.4K |
| 86 | IScience | 1 | 6 | 1.4K | 15.0K |
| 89 | Economic Botany | 1 | 5 | 216 | 740 |
| 90 | Environmental Microbiology Reports | 2 | 4 | 189 | 2.8K |
| 91 | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 1 | 3 | 38.5K | 63.5K |
| 91 | Bioscience Reports | 1 | 3 | 874 | 6.2K |
| 91 | Radiation and Environmental Biophysics | 1 | 3 | 332 | 991 |
| 91 | Life | 1 | 3 | 1.3K | 7.1K |
| 91 | Environmental Ethics | 1 | 3 | 27 | 96 |
| 96 | Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union | 1 | 1 | 3.8K | 2.5K |
| 96 | Science and Global Security | 1 | 1 | 22 | 69 |
| 96 | Access Microbiology | 1 | 1 | 203 | 781 |
