| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Genetics | 126 | 14,917 | 5 | 2 |
| 2 | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 123 | 13,870 | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | Nature | 63 | 13,092 | 96 | 225 |
| 4 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 72 | 9,621 | 143 | 146 |
| 5 | Science | 46 | 9,272 | 145 | 278 |
| 6 | Ecology | 50 | 5,047 | 10 | 14 |
| 7 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 63 | 4,570 | 3 | 10 |
| 8 | Genetical Research | 39 | 4,567 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | PLoS Genetics | 30 | 3,776 | 18 | 17 |
| 10 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 41 | 3,182 | 27 | 27 |
| 11 | Nature Genetics | 13 | 3,179 | 189 | 449 |
| 12 | Bioinformatics | 7 | 2,648 | 181 | 42 |
| 13 | PLoS Biology | 13 | 2,619 | 23 | 20 |
| 14 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 6 | 2,614 | 7 | 20 |
| 15 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 11 | 2,475 | 39 | 33 |
| 16 | Nature Communications | 21 | 2,433 | 537 | 419 |
| 17 | PLoS ONE | 39 | 2,129 | 712 | 382 |
| 18 | Genome Research | 17 | 2,089 | 7 | 13 |
| 19 | Plant Cell | 5 | 1,947 | 154 | 71 |
| 20 | American Naturalist | 46 | 1,757 | 5 | 18 |
| 21 | Molecular Ecology | 21 | 1,745 | 54 | 49 |
| 22 | Trends in Genetics | 12 | 1,586 | 7 | 5 |
| 23 | Plant Physiology | 6 | 1,502 | 301 | 101 |
| 24 | Ecology Letters | 11 | 1,479 | 52 | 69 |
| 25 | Current Biology | 28 | 1,242 | 46 | 140 |
| 26 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 9 | 1,217 | 67 | 27 |
| 27 | ISME Journal | 9 | 1,174 | 56 | 64 |
| 28 | Annual Review of Genetics | 4 | 1,119 | 15 | 25 |
| 29 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 10 | 1,058 | 67 | 59 |
| 30 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 13 | 1,044 | 9 | 18 |
| 31 | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 18 | 1,028 | 7 | 19 |
| 32 | MBio | 5 | 988 | 238 | 45 |
| 33 | Conservation Biology | 3 | 972 | 158 | 47 |
| 34 | Genome Biology | 6 | 912 | 25 | 47 |
| 35 | Current Opinion in Genetics and Development | 10 | 895 | 6 | 14 |
| 36 | Heredity | 19 | 839 | 17 | 27 |
| 37 | American Journal of Human Genetics | 3 | 772 | 662 | 393 |
| 38 | Cell Host and Microbe | 2 | 758 | 243 | 122 |
| 39 | Oecologia | 14 | 746 | 92 | 121 |
| 40 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2 | 689 | 1.2K | 320 |
| 41 | ELife | 10 | 680 | 206 | 197 |
| 42 | PLoS Computational Biology | 13 | 679 | 58 | 114 |
| 43 | Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics | 2 | 614 | 9 | 9 |
| 44 | Animal Behaviour | 17 | 563 | 68 | 127 |
| 45 | Development (Cambridge) | 5 | 517 | 411 | 365 |
| 46 | Cell Research | 3 | 505 | 129 | 84 |
| 47 | Genetica | 10 | 495 | 7 | 6 |
| 48 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2 | 477 | 25 | 53 |
| 49 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 11 | 442 | 69 | 91 |
| 50 | Nucleic Acids Research | 6 | 438 | 682 | 688 |
| 51 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 10 | 433 | 72 | 102 |
| 52 | Molecular Genetics and Genomics | 1 | 421 | 237 | 9 |
| 53 | American Journal of Botany | 14 | 407 | 82 | 95 |
| 54 | Journal of Phycology | 7 | 397 | 50 | 42 |
| 55 | Journal of Experimental Biology | 5 | 384 | 336 | 222 |
| 56 | Science Translational Medicine | 3 | 376 | 351 | 444 |
| 57 | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 4 | 344 | 166 | 109 |
| 58 | Evolutionary Ecology | 5 | 317 | 31 | 33 |
| 59 | Nature Reviews Cancer | 1 | 303 | 103 | 272 |
| 60 | Theoretical Population Biology | 20 | 301 | 4 | 38 |
| 61 | Molecular Biology of the Cell | 2 | 297 | 635 | 413 |
| 62 | American Journal of Primatology | 4 | 294 | 123 | 77 |
| 63 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 1 | 292 | 14 | 30 |
| 64 | Auk | 7 | 291 | 70 | 59 |
| 65 | Journal of Animal Ecology | 8 | 283 | 58 | 90 |
| 66 | Physical Review E | 8 | 279 | 940 | 786 |
| 67 | Environmental Microbiology | 4 | 263 | 177 | 221 |
| 68 | Scientific Reports | 5 | 260 | 6.6K | 3.7K |
| 68 | BioEssays | 6 | 260 | 30 | 138 |
| 70 | BMC Biology | 2 | 258 | 121 | 71 |
| 71 | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions | 3 | 256 | 66 | 46 |
| 72 | Gene | 7 | 243 | 206 | 284 |
| 73 | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 1 | 239 | 2.6K | 1.6K |
| 74 | EMBO Journal | 2 | 219 | 755 | 1.0K |
| 75 | Journal of Sea Research | 1 | 212 | 64 | 13 |
| 76 | New Phytologist | 2 | 194 | 615 | 533 |
| 77 | Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 2 | 188 | 81 | 122 |
| 78 | Population Ecology | 1 | 186 | 60 | 14 |
| 79 | Evolutionary Anthropology | 1 | 184 | 81 | 15 |
| 80 | Behavioral Ecology | 8 | 180 | 31 | 62 |
| 81 | Journal of Chemical Ecology | 4 | 178 | 133 | 136 |
| 82 | Genome Biology and Evolution | 9 | 173 | 27 | 104 |
| 83 | MSystems | 3 | 172 | 69 | 61 |
| 84 | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 1 | 171 | 336 | 133 |
| 85 | Nature Microbiology | 1 | 168 | 316 | 306 |
| 86 | Journal of Mathematical Biology | 9 | 163 | 40 | 104 |
| 87 | Hormones and Behavior | 1 | 160 | 432 | 241 |
| 87 | Rna | 2 | 160 | 271 | 244 |
| 89 | Nature Methods | 1 | 159 | 498 | 814 |
| 89 | Biology Letters | 4 | 159 | 107 | 130 |
| 89 | Ethology | 7 | 159 | 33 | 65 |
| 92 | Basic and Applied Ecology | 3 | 158 | 34 | 37 |
| 93 | Cell | 4 | 155 | 540 | 2.6K |
| 94 | The Anatomical Record | 2 | 150 | 320 | 174 |
| 95 | Cell Reports | 2 | 148 | 1.1K | 1.2K |
| 95 | Vaccines | 1 | 148 | 844 | 74 |
| 97 | Ethology Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 142 | 30 | 7 |
| 98 | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 3 | 133 | 1.3K | 1.3K |
| 99 | Condor | 8 | 130 | 62 | 104 |
| 100 | Annual Review of Biophysics | 1 | 129 | 46 | 90 |
| 101 | Genes and Development | 1 | 122 | 470 | 591 |
| 102 | Vision Research | 1 | 119 | 649 | 380 |
| 103 | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 3 | 110 | 448 | 541 |
| 103 | Journal of Zoology | 4 | 110 | 144 | 196 |
| 105 | Journal of Differential Equations | 4 | 109 | 238 | 220 |
| 106 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 1 | 108 | 171 | 482 |
| 107 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 1 | 107 | 420 | 267 |
| 108 | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 1 | 105 | 214 | 92 |
| 109 | Environmental Science & Technology | 2 | 102 | 1.2K | 1.6K |
| 110 | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2 | 101 | 408 | 507 |
| 110 | Genes and Genetic Systems | 2 | 101 | 77 | 36 |
| 112 | Journal of the Royal Society Interface | 4 | 100 | 141 | 396 |
| 113 | Nature Reviews Immunology | 1 | 98 | 141 | 433 |
| 114 | Journal of Human Evolution | 1 | 96 | 324 | 250 |
| 115 | Genome Biology | 2 | 95 | 232 | 626 |
| 116 | Emu | 7 | 94 | 12 | 22 |
| 117 | Limnology and Oceanography | 5 | 92 | 137 | 408 |
| 118 | Insect Molecular Biology | 1 | 91 | 152 | 105 |
| 119 | MicrobiologyOpen | 1 | 89 | 92 | 31 |
| 120 | Ecology and Evolution | 6 | 88 | 164 | 326 |
| 121 | Developmental Biology | 3 | 87 | 546 | 1.1K |
| 122 | Carbohydrate Polymers | 1 | 86 | 1.7K | 1.5K |
| 122 | BMC Bioinformatics | 1 | 86 | 1.3K | 661 |
| 124 | General and Comparative Endocrinology | 2 | 85 | 403 | 373 |
| 124 | G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics | 4 | 85 | 104 | 166 |
| 124 | International Journal of Primatology | 5 | 85 | 59 | 144 |
| 124 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 4 | 85 | 82 | 81 |
| 128 | Biological Conservation | 1 | 83 | 477 | 502 |
| 129 | Environmental Microbiology Reports | 3 | 80 | 28 | 88 |
| 130 | BMC Genomics | 2 | 78 | 926 | 1.2K |
| 131 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 1 | 77 | 3.0K | 1.7K |
| 131 | Plant Journal | 1 | 77 | 591 | 752 |
| 133 | Atherosclerosis | 1 | 75 | 1.7K | 1.2K |
| 133 | Functional Ecology | 1 | 75 | 315 | 306 |
| 135 | Current Opinion in Structural Biology | 1 | 73 | 283 | 368 |
| 136 | Plant Ecology | 2 | 72 | 124 | 143 |
| 137 | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 1 | 68 | 3.8K | 1.8K |
| 137 | Astrobiology | 1 | 68 | 171 | 150 |
| 139 | Marine Biology | 3 | 66 | 235 | 403 |
| 140 | Annals of the Entomological Society of America | 3 | 65 | 94 | 91 |
| 141 | Molecular Plant | 2 | 64 | 131 | 270 |
| 142 | Journal of Heredity | 2 | 63 | 74 | 88 |
| 142 | Toxins | 1 | 63 | 608 | 339 |
| 142 | Nature Climate Change | 1 | 63 | 293 | 615 |
| 145 | Philosophical Psychology | 2 | 62 | 34 | 26 |
| 146 | Journal of Biogeography | 2 | 60 | 250 | 444 |
| 146 | Development Genes and Evolution | 1 | 60 | 119 | 99 |
| 146 | Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering | 1 | 60 | 386 | 76 |
| 149 | Journal of Ecology | 1 | 59 | 304 | 379 |
| 149 | American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology | 1 | 59 | 741 | 675 |
| 149 | Physiological and Biochemical Zoology | 1 | 59 | 96 | 82 |
| 152 | Deep-sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers | 2 | 58 | 18 | 45 |
| 153 | Ecoscience | 1 | 55 | 67 | 57 |
| 154 | Building and Environment | 1 | 53 | 681 | 722 |
| 155 | Nature Computational Science | 1 | 49 | 9 | 9 |
| 156 | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2 | 48 | 157 | 247 |
| 156 | Oikos | 1 | 48 | 92 | 94 |
| 156 | Nature Plants | 1 | 48 | 183 | 403 |
| 159 | Ecological Entomology | 2 | 46 | 133 | 191 |
| 160 | Human Molecular Genetics | 1 | 45 | 1.6K | 2.4K |
| 161 | Ecosphere | 2 | 44 | 198 | 272 |
| 161 | International Journal of Plant Sciences | 4 | 44 | 14 | 49 |
| 163 | Journal of Gerontology | 1 | 43 | 120 | 214 |
| 164 | Plant Science | 1 | 42 | 462 | 547 |
| 164 | Hydrobiologia | 3 | 42 | 376 | 664 |
| 166 | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 3 | 40 | 201 | 509 |
| 166 | Ecological Modelling | 1 | 40 | 435 | 506 |
| 168 | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 2 | 39 | 232 | 643 |
| 168 | Biological Invasions | 1 | 39 | 302 | 325 |
| 168 | Folia Primatologica | 1 | 39 | 76 | 62 |
| 168 | BMC Systems Biology | 1 | 39 | 222 | 313 |
| 172 | Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications | 1 | 38 | 741 | 455 |
| 173 | Ibis | 2 | 37 | 125 | 168 |
| 173 | Molecular Ecology Resources | 4 | 37 | 68 | 389 |
| 175 | Nature Medicine | 1 | 35 | 1.2K | 3.0K |
| 176 | Genomics | 1 | 34 | 854 | 1.2K |
| 176 | Ecological Research | 1 | 34 | 160 | 187 |
| 176 | Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases | 1 | 34 | 229 | 260 |
| 176 | Evolutionary Applications | 1 | 34 | 140 | 233 |
| 176 | National Science Review | 4 | 34 | 57 | 366 |
| 181 | Genes | 3 | 33 | 356 | 641 |
| 181 | Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics | 2 | 33 | 20 | 52 |
| 183 | BMJ, The | 1 | 32 | 539 | 1.2K |
| 184 | Urban Ecosystems | 2 | 31 | 46 | 128 |
| 184 | Biostatistics | 1 | 31 | 71 | 97 |
| 184 | Journal of Mammalogy | 1 | 31 | 381 | 371 |
| 187 | Advances in Applied Microbiology | 1 | 30 | 41 | 126 |
| 188 | Science China Life Sciences | 2 | 29 | 133 | 277 |
| 188 | Bioacoustics | 1 | 29 | 50 | 51 |
| 188 | Applied Network Science | 1 | 29 | 25 | 18 |
| 191 | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2 | 28 | 107 | 200 |
| 191 | Journal of Insect Behavior | 1 | 28 | 116 | 122 |
| 193 | American Anthropologist | 1 | 27 | 200 | 255 |
| 193 | Mathematical Biosciences | 1 | 27 | 376 | 458 |
| 195 | Global Change Biology | 2 | 26 | 424 | 1.2K |
| 195 | Advances in Water Resources | 2 | 26 | 189 | 440 |
| 195 | Microbiome | 1 | 26 | 237 | 676 |
| 198 | Genome | 2 | 25 | 88 | 200 |
| 198 | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 1 | 25 | 311 | 677 |
| 198 | Trends in Microbiology | 2 | 25 | 114 | 574 |
| 198 | MSphere | 1 | 25 | 368 | 492 |
| 198 | Biogeosciences | 3 | 25 | 144 | 513 |
| 203 | Methods in Molecular Biology | 1 | 23 | 3.3K | 2.0K |
| 203 | Parallel Computing | 1 | 23 | 156 | 150 |
| 203 | Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems | 1 | 23 | 154 | 191 |
| 203 | Epidemics | 2 | 23 | 42 | 107 |
| 207 | Archives of Virology | 1 | 22 | 920 | 1.1K |
| 207 | Fungal Genetics and Biology | 1 | 22 | 213 | 379 |
| 207 | Diversity | 1 | 22 | 264 | 158 |
| 210 | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 1 | 21 | 315 | 516 |
| 210 | Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics | 1 | 21 | 852 | 1.1K |
| 210 | Organisms Diversity and Evolution | 1 | 21 | 50 | 94 |
| 213 | Journal of Virology | 1 | 19 | 2.1K | 3.4K |
| 213 | PeerJ | 1 | 19 | 1.5K | 1.8K |
| 213 | Acta Botanica Gallica | 1 | 19 | 16 | 15 |
| 216 | Bioorganic Chemistry | 1 | 18 | 876 | 1.1K |
| 216 | Behaviour | 1 | 18 | 155 | 263 |
| 216 | Statistical Methods in Medical Research | 1 | 18 | 224 | 287 |
| 216 | Journal of Ornithology | 1 | 18 | 155 | 171 |
| 216 | Current Opinion in Insect Science | 1 | 18 | 58 | 120 |
| 216 | PLOS Global Public Health | 2 | 18 | 38 | 25 |
| 222 | Medical Hypotheses | 2 | 17 | 341 | 1.1K |
| 222 | Frontiers in Marine Science | 1 | 17 | 477 | 588 |
| 222 | Exs | 1 | 17 | 28 | 59 |
| 225 | American Journal of Reproductive Immunology | 1 | 16 | 454 | 779 |
| 226 | International Journal for Parasitology | 1 | 15 | 459 | 855 |
| 226 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 1 | 15 | 277 | 622 |
| 226 | Lancet Planetary Health, The | 1 | 15 | 83 | 262 |
| 229 | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1 | 14 | 626 | 1.1K |
| 229 | IScience | 1 | 14 | 848 | 1.6K |
| 229 | Cladistics | 1 | 14 | 81 | 156 |
| 232 | Canadian Journal of Microbiology | 1 | 13 | 248 | 503 |
| 232 | Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology | 1 | 13 | 256 | 805 |
| 232 | Frontiers in Public Health | 1 | 13 | 1.1K | 1.7K |
| 232 | Marine Ecology | 1 | 13 | 74 | 145 |
| 232 | Environmental and Ecological Statistics | 1 | 13 | 49 | 103 |
| 237 | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1 | 12 | 862 | 1.4K |
| 237 | Zoo Biology | 1 | 12 | 89 | 180 |
| 237 | Paleobiology | 1 | 12 | 119 | 262 |
| 237 | Biology and Philosophy | 2 | 12 | 74 | 190 |
| 237 | Standards in Genomic Sciences | 2 | 12 | 29 | 133 |
| 237 | Microbial Genomics | 1 | 12 | 106 | 169 |
| 237 | Methods | 1 | 12 | 413 | 1.2K |
| 244 | Ecological Applications | 1 | 11 | 208 | 470 |
| 244 | Environmental Biology of Fishes | 1 | 11 | 261 | 393 |
| 244 | Journal of Genetics | 1 | 11 | 238 | 268 |
| 244 | Insect Systematics and Evolution | 1 | 11 | 19 | 21 |
| 248 | Journal of Marine Systems | 1 | 10 | 108 | 262 |
| 248 | Journal of Integrative Plant Biology | 1 | 10 | 168 | 369 |
| 250 | Frontiers in Immunology | 1 | 9 | 3.4K | 6.1K |
| 250 | Protein Science | 1 | 9 | 794 | 1.5K |
| 250 | Viruses | 2 | 9 | 766 | 2.1K |
| 250 | Genetic Epidemiology | 1 | 9 | 391 | 686 |
| 250 | Disease Markers | 1 | 9 | 433 | 967 |
| 250 | Amphibia - Reptilia | 1 | 9 | 87 | 128 |
| 250 | Limnology and Oceanography: Methods | 1 | 9 | 76 | 203 |
| 257 | Aquatic Sciences | 1 | 8 | 110 | 280 |
| 257 | Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta Gene Regulatory Mechanisms | 1 | 8 | 345 | 871 |
| 259 | EMBO Reports | 1 | 7 | 424 | 1.4K |
| 259 | Transactions of the American Fisheries Society | 1 | 7 | 202 | 374 |
| 261 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2 | 6 | 208 | 697 |
| 261 | BioTechniques | 1 | 6 | 205 | 639 |
| 261 | Journal of Avian Biology | 1 | 6 | 27 | 66 |
| 264 | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2 | 5 | 1.1K | 3.7K |
| 264 | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 1 | 5 | 1.9K | 3.9K |
| 264 | BMC Microbiology | 1 | 5 | 559 | 1.7K |
| 264 | Frontiers in Bioscience - Landmark | 1 | 5 | 292 | 1.2K |
| 264 | Primates | 1 | 5 | 203 | 429 |
| 264 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 1 | 5 | 167 | 435 |
| 264 | Molecular Ecology Notes | 1 | 5 | 109 | 238 |
| 264 | Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 5 | 25 | 63 |
| 264 | Animal Migration | 1 | 5 | 5 | 16 |
| 264 | Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| 264 | Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing | 1 | 5 | 38 | 66 |
| 275 | Zootaxa | 1 | 4 | 710 | 938 |
| 275 | Journal of Vascular Surgery | 1 | 4 | 821 | 1.6K |
| 275 | Journal of General Physiology | 1 | 4 | 460 | 911 |
| 275 | Diversity and Distributions | 1 | 4 | 192 | 526 |
| 279 | BioScience | 2 | 3 | 87 | 280 |
| 279 | Nanotoxicology | 1 | 3 | 133 | 535 |
| 281 | Journal of Social and Biological Structures | 1 | 2 | 20 | 50 |
| 282 | Clinical Genetics | 1 | 1 | 941 | 2.6K |
| 282 | JAMA Network Open | 1 | 1 | 1.3K | 3.6K |
| 282 | Annals of Applied Probability | 1 | 1 | 40 | 100 |
| 282 | Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America | 1 | 1 | 28 | 68 |
| 282 | International Journal of Anthropology | 1 | 1 | 23 | 57 |
| 282 | Science Bulletin | 1 | 1 | 432 | 984 |
| 282 | Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science | 1 | 1 | 28 | 182 |
| 282 | Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution | 1 | 1 | 13 | 35 |
| 290 | Journal of Visualized Experiments | 2 | 0 | 1.6K | 4.9K |
| 290 | Journal of Paleontology | 1 | 0 | 225 | 405 |
| 290 | Public Health Reports | 1 | 0 | 235 | 678 |
| 290 | Environmetrics | 1 | 0 | 128 | 359 |
| 290 | Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society | 1 | 0 | 19 | 35 |
| 290 | Bios | 1 | 0 | 27 | 64 |
| 290 | Technical Tips Online | 1 | 0 | 5 | 21 |
| 290 | Infectious Disease Modelling | 1 | 0 | 39 | 169 |
| 290 | Soil Biology | 1 | 0 | 20 | 111 |
| 290 | Biomathematics | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
