Name: List of Top Disciplines of Biology sorted by citations
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Published: 2026-01-17T13:50:59Z
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582(top 1%)

papers

23.4K(top 1%)

citations

78(top 1%)

h-index

130(top 1%)

g-index

647

all documents

27.1K

doc citations

2.3K

citing journals

Top Disciplines (by citations)

#	Discipline	Articles	Citations	R ARank	R CRank
1	Ecology	137	6.5K	121	145
2	Biodiversity conservation	49	5.3K	36	40
3	Environment	47	5.1K	85	66
4	Pollution	47	5.0K	76	59
5	Climate change	43	4.9K	18	32
5	Eutrophication	43	4.9K	18	32
7	Botany	33	1.5K	362	427
8	Geophysics	16	1.4K	581	284
9	Planets	15	1.4K	361	200
10	Biogeochemical cycles	11	1.3K	64	48
11	Biology	79	1.1K	275	1438
12	Zoology	29	1.0K	68	43
13	Geology	18	925	112	49
14	Geobiology	16	902	23	8
15	Plants	18	901	150	186
16	Molecular Biology	19	848	1138	1337
17	Molecular Genetics	16	830	174	194
17	Population Genetics	16	830	134	172
17	Molecular ecology	16	830	193	228
20	China	15	790	87	28
21	Animal ecology	14	744	83	38
22	Biogeography	12	533	186	246
23	Plant Ecology	9	489	251	255
24	environmental protection	15	437	66	129
25	ecosystem	7	374	172	267
26	Hydrology	9	261	453	636
27	Evolution	14	256	159	577
28	Wildlife management	20	203	16	37
29	Geography	6	198	406	468
30	Community Psychology	5	195	135	161
30	Community Psychiatry	5	195	167	203
32	Conservation Biology	3	178	302	328
33	plant communities	2	164	730	529
34	freshwater biology	6	159	104	136
35	Environmental Health	3	137	718	782
36	Neurology	4	121	2330	3587
36	Neurochemistry	4	121	474	937
38	Agriculture	5	114	370	868
39	Agricultural Ecology	4	112	262	626
40	Mass Spectrometry	7	111	157	294
41	Plant Taxonomy	3	98	252	243
42	Birds	8	90	69	144
43	Oceanography	4	87	474	748
44	Marine mammals	4	85	36	41
45	Geomorphology	3	82	209	298
46	Ornithology	7	81	58	113
47	Fisheries	9	80	143	532
48	Medicine	2	79	8044	8271
48	Periglacial processes	6	79	11	56
48	Permafrost	6	79	11	56
48	Frozen ground	6	79	11	56
52	Anthropology	2	78	427	306
53	Anatomy	5	77	703	1607
54	Plant physiology	1	73	1364	1190
55	Wildlife conservation	6	72	63	208
56	Biodiversity	4	69	631	1010
57	biological evolution	5	65	283	1061
58	Electrophoresis	1	64	1963	949
58	Chromatography	1	64	1195	545
58	Chromatographic analysis	1	64	1614	661
61	History	7	63	23	29
61	Physical Geography	7	63	10	23
61	Mountains	7	63	12	19
61	Natural history	7	63	276	1866
65	environmental pollution	4	61	589	1342
66	Environmental Microbiology	3	57	427	1278
66	Microbial Ecology	3	57	612	1577
68	Entomology	4	55	483	794
69	Ecohydrology	2	54	133	196
69	Aquatic ecology	2	54	293	395
71	Genetics	4	52	814	2353
72	Earth Sciences	1	45	1038	701
73	Toxicology	3	43	1427	2959
73	Environmental Chemistry	3	43	398	936
73	pollutants	3	43	261	653
73	Environmental pollutants	3	43	439	985
77	mammals	1	34	187	248
78	Paleontology	3	33	339	631
79	rivers	3	32	72	221
80	health services accessibility	1	31	202	218
80	Socioeconomic Factors	1	31	119	152
82	Technology	4	27	1043	4247
83	Water	3	24	822	2780
83	water supply	3	24	725	2537
85	Hypertension	1	21	1030	1394
86	Radiology	1	20	259	267
86	Radioisotopes	1	20	359	312
88	Fishery management	7	19	107	919
89	Animal Behavior	1	18	663	1112
89	Diabetes mellitus	1	18	1429	2411
89	Environmental monitoring	1	18	1151	1808
89	Ethology	1	18	556	941
89	Diabetes	1	18	2183	3471
94	Restoration Ecology	1	16	320	499
94	United States	4	16	1641	5346
96	animals	1	14	388	636
97	Developmental Biology	1	13	1885	3098
98	Immunology	2	11	2360	7208
98	Physiology	2	11	3436	9978
98	Morphology	2	11	115	413
98	Primates	1	11	696	1054
102	Paleopathology	1	10	306	399
102	Human biology	1	10	507	825
104	California	1	9	132	194
105	Atmospheric Physics	1	8	1499	2810
106	visualization	2	7	714	1571
106	Research	2	7	4885	14390
108	Fisheries Law	4	6	22	217
108	fisheries management	4	6	22	217
110	Forest Management	1	5	86	221
110	forest policy	1	5	35	105
112	Nutrition	1	4	3441	7681
112	Food Microbiology	1	4	1279	3421
112	food technology	1	4	2958	6818
112	Food	1	4	2629	6378
112	Aquaculture	1	4	730	1741
117	Science	1	3	12728	24415
117	Scandinavia	1	3	166	464
119	peptides	1	2	924	2716
119	proteins	1	2	1838	4577
121	Obesity	1	1	3424	8385

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