| # | Institution | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | American Museum of Natural History | 111 | 6,868 | 14 | 7 |
| 2 | California Academy of Sciences | 5 | 1,661 | 77 | 7 |
| 3 | Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission | 2 | 1,653 | 110 | 2 |
| 4 | University of Richmond | 2 | 1,593 | 360 | 5 |
| 5 | University of Michigan | 2 | 1,572 | 8.6K | 1.3K |
| 6 | Natural History Museum | 2 | 1,559 | 837 | 93 |
| 7 | McGill University | 1 | 1,555 | 8.9K | 751 |
| 7 | University of the Western Cape | 1 | 1,555 | 1.4K | 13 |
| 7 | National University of Colombia | 1 | 1,555 | 2.4K | 10 |
| 7 | University of Texas at Arlington | 1 | 1,555 | 2.4K | 45 |
| 7 | South Australian Museum | 1 | 1,555 | 139 | 1 |
| 12 | Columbia University | 4 | 1,397 | 4.9K | 987 |
| 13 | University of Minnesota | 6 | 515 | 4.7K | 2.3K |
| 14 | Eckerd College | 3 | 419 | 34 | 7 |
| 15 | Florida State University | 2 | 409 | 3.4K | 839 |
| 16 | University of California | 3 | 384 | 12.9K | 6.0K |
| 17 | University of Toronto | 1 | 360 | 11.7K | 3.4K |
| 17 | National Institute of Amazonian Research | 1 | 360 | 402 | 51 |
| 19 | Field Museum of Natural History | 5 | 358 | 134 | 84 |
| 20 | University of Kansas | 2 | 354 | 4.2K | 1.1K |
| 21 | University of Connecticut | 1 | 352 | 6.0K | 1.2K |
| 21 | CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere | 1 | 352 | 281 | 87 |
| 23 | Carnegie Museum of Natural History | 2 | 179 | 62 | 29 |
| 24 | University of Cambridge | 1 | 175 | 9.0K | 3.6K |
| 24 | University of Louisville | 1 | 175 | 4.1K | 1.1K |
| 26 | City University of New York | 6 | 169 | 1.4K | 1.3K |
| 27 | University of São Paulo | 5 | 165 | 4.9K | 3.1K |
| 28 | Federal University of Grande Dourados | 1 | 160 | 399 | 23 |
| 29 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 2 | 158 | 6.3K | 3.7K |
| 30 | Stony Brook University | 3 | 144 | 2.4K | 1.8K |
| 31 | University of Texas at Austin | 3 | 128 | 6.7K | 4.6K |
| 32 | Virginia Tech | 2 | 106 | 4.4K | 2.7K |
| 33 | Jackson School of Geosciences | 2 | 103 | 170 | 139 |
| 34 | Duke University | 1 | 97 | 6.1K | 3.2K |
| 34 | Stockton University | 1 | 97 | 287 | 89 |
| 36 | City College | 2 | 95 | 143 | 105 |
| 37 | North Carolina State University | 2 | 84 | 4.3K | 3.1K |
| 38 | Appalachian State University | 1 | 83 | 1.2K | 362 |
| 39 | University of Antananarivo | 2 | 76 | 129 | 94 |
| 40 | San José State University | 1 | 72 | 1.5K | 549 |
| 40 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1 | 72 | 2.3K | 1.4K |
| 42 | Global Wildlife Conservation | 1 | 71 | 12 | 13 |
| 42 | Canadian Museum of Nature | 1 | 71 | 171 | 103 |
| 44 | University of Bucharest | 2 | 58 | 892 | 551 |
| 45 | University of Vienna | 1 | 56 | 5.5K | 3.4K |
| 46 | Florida International University | 1 | 53 | 3.6K | 2.1K |
| 46 | Federal University of Mato Grosso | 1 | 53 | 1.1K | 320 |
| 48 | Siena College | 2 | 49 | 75 | 81 |
| 49 | Australian National Wildlife Collection | 1 | 48 | 32 | 27 |
| 50 | Natural History Museum of Bern | 2 | 44 | 24 | 33 |
| 51 | Peking University | 1 | 42 | 5.5K | 3.9K |
| 51 | China University of Geosciences | 1 | 42 | 1.6K | 1.1K |
| 51 | Beijing Museum of Natural History | 1 | 42 | 30 | 18 |
| 54 | University of Zurich | 1 | 39 | 5.7K | 4.3K |
| 55 | EAFIT University | 1 | 37 | 323 | 124 |
| 56 | Instituto Butantan | 1 | 36 | 471 | 398 |
| 57 | Carthage College | 1 | 34 | 59 | 37 |
| 58 | Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica | 1 | 33 | 1 | 2 |
| 58 | Royal Museum for Central Africa | 2 | 33 | 102 | 189 |
| 60 | National University of Córdoba | 2 | 32 | 1.2K | 1.2K |
| 61 | George Washington University | 2 | 31 | 3.1K | 3.4K |
| 61 | Universidad de Antioquia | 1 | 31 | 1.6K | 952 |
| 61 | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador | 1 | 31 | 208 | 132 |
| 61 | Universidade Federal de Goiás | 1 | 31 | 2.2K | 1.1K |
| 65 | National Autonomous University of Mexico | 4 | 30 | 2.7K | 3.5K |
| 66 | University of Hong Kong | 1 | 26 | 6.7K | 5.5K |
| 66 | University of Oklahoma | 2 | 26 | 3.1K | 3.6K |
| 66 | University of New South Wales | 2 | 26 | 6.4K | 6.8K |
| 66 | Kansas Wesleyan University | 1 | 26 | 8 | 5 |
| 70 | Yale University | 1 | 22 | 6.6K | 5.9K |
| 71 | New York Botanical Garden | 1 | 21 | 182 | 199 |
| 72 | University of Silesia in Katowice | 1 | 19 | 1.5K | 984 |
| 73 | Shanxi Normal University | 1 | 18 | 439 | 391 |
| 74 | University of Warsaw | 4 | 17 | 1.4K | 2.6K |
| 74 | University of Sydney | 1 | 17 | 9.3K | 8.5K |
| 74 | University of Siena | 1 | 17 | 3.0K | 3.1K |
| 74 | Australian Museum | 1 | 17 | 202 | 241 |
| 78 | James Cook University | 1 | 15 | 2.3K | 2.7K |
| 78 | Hofstra University | 1 | 15 | 858 | 919 |
| 78 | North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences | 1 | 15 | 83 | 110 |
| 78 | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine | 1 | 15 | 261 | 304 |
| 78 | State University of New York at Geneseo | 1 | 15 | 192 | 262 |
| 78 | National Scientific and Technical Research Council | 2 | 15 | 1.7K | 2.3K |
| 78 | New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science | 2 | 15 | 36 | 60 |
| 85 | North Dakota State University | 2 | 13 | 1.4K | 2.4K |
| 85 | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi | 1 | 13 | 209 | 236 |
| 87 | Louisiana State University | 1 | 12 | 5.3K | 5.6K |
| 87 | Indonesian Institute of Sciences | 1 | 12 | 374 | 374 |
| 89 | Zoological Society of London | 1 | 11 | 252 | 378 |
| 89 | Royal Holloway University of London | 1 | 11 | 915 | 1.3K |
| 91 | Universidade Federal do Pará | 1 | 7 | 1.7K | 1.8K |
| 92 | University of Hamburg | 1 | 5 | 4.2K | 5.4K |
| 92 | Utrecht University | 1 | 5 | 6.2K | 7.7K |
| 92 | Durham University | 1 | 5 | 4.0K | 5.1K |
| 92 | University of Haifa | 1 | 5 | 3.0K | 4.0K |
| 92 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1 | 5 | 10.0K | 11.2K |
| 92 | Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio | 1 | 5 | 33 | 58 |
| 92 | Kingston University London | 1 | 5 | 157 | 472 |
| 99 | Smithsonian Institution | 1 | 4 | 832 | 1.1K |
| 99 | University of Tennessee | 1 | 4 | 6.2K | 7.7K |
| 101 | Kanazawa University | 1 | 3 | 2.9K | 3.8K |
| 101 | University of Idaho | 1 | 3 | 2.1K | 3.2K |
| 103 | Utah State University | 1 | 2 | 2.9K | 4.5K |
| 104 | University of Edinburgh | 1 | 1 | 7.8K | 10.4K |
| 104 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 1 | 1 | 6.2K | 8.7K |
