| # | Journals | Citations | Articles | R-Rank |
|---|
| 1 | Science | 11,855 | 42 | 445 |
| 2 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 9,636 | 64 | 419 |
| 3 | Nature | 7,874 | 20 | 762 |
| 4 | American Journal of Botany | 7,559 | 90 | 14 |
| 5 | PLoS ONE | 3,507 | 59 | 842 |
| 6 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2,169 | 43 | 53 |
| 7 | New Phytologist | 2,113 | 18 | 224 |
| 8 | PLoS Biology | 1,735 | 7 | 171 |
| 9 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1,731 | 30 | 201 |
| 10 | Molecular Ecology | 1,606 | 14 | 197 |
| 11 | Systematic Biology | 1,509 | 19 | 63 |
| 12 | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 1,474 | 32 | 97 |
| 14 | Zootaxa | 1,306 | 139 | 26 |
| 15 | Nature Plants | 1,219 | 9 | 47 |
| 16 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | 1,202 | 2 | 73 |
| 17 | Journal of Biogeography | 1,177 | 29 | 81 |
| 19 | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | 1,069 | 44 | 29 |
| 22 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 897 | 13 | 43 |
| 23 | Taxon | 882 | 31 | 52 |
| 24 | GigaScience | 848 | 5 | 29 |
| 25 | Applications in Plant Sciences | 826 | 17 | 3 |
| 26 | American Antiquity | 798 | 52 | 41 |
| 27 | Journal of Systematics and Evolution | 769 | 18 | 6 |
| 28 | BioScience | 733 | 15 | 70 |
| 30 | Paleobiology | 706 | 18 | 34 |
| 32 | Auk | 669 | 45 | 68 |
| 33 | Journal of Mammalogy | 636 | 26 | 79 |
| 34 | Annual Review of Genetics | 618 | 1 | 98 |
| 37 | Fisheries | 558 | 6 | 36 |
| 47 | Journal of Forensic Sciences | 453 | 12 | 92 |
| 49 | Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society | 413 | 13 | 47 |
| 50 | Systematic Entomology | 410 | 17 | 41 |
| 58 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 333 | 7 | 53 |
| 65 | Journal of Paleontology | 294 | 28 | 77 |
| 68 | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | 285 | 15 | 71 |
| 72 | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 267 | 4 | 99 |
| 74 | Conservation Genetics | 256 | 7 | 99 |
| 83 | Brittonia | 220 | 11 | 22 |
| 84 | Palaeontology | 217 | 5 | 42 |
| 85 | Evolutionary Biology | 215 | 2 | 24 |
| 86 | ZooKeys | 214 | 14 | 30 |
| 87 | Topics in Geobiology | 212 | 6 | 13 |
| 88 | Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology | 211 | 11 | 14 |
| 89 | Palaios | 207 | 10 | 51 |
| 91 | Historical Archaeology | 203 | 14 | 8 |
| 94 | Lethaia | 197 | 7 | 84 |
