| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Ecology Letters | 6 | 3,718 | 105 | 22 |
| 2 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 29 | 2,358 | 17 | 27 |
| 3 | Nature | 3 | 2,308 | 3.2K | 1.7K |
| 4 | Journal of Experimental Biology | 48 | 2,111 | 25 | 31 |
| 5 | Science | 8 | 2,046 | 1.3K | 1.5K |
| 6 | PLoS ONE | 39 | 1,920 | 712 | 457 |
| 7 | Genome Research | 9 | 1,424 | 28 | 24 |
| 8 | ISME Journal | 8 | 1,357 | 68 | 58 |
| 9 | Nature Genetics | 5 | 1,354 | 583 | 1.1K |
| 10 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 1,329 | 196 | 67 |
| 11 | Quarterly Review of Biology | 1 | 1,191 | 30 | 4 |
| 12 | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 21 | 1,178 | 66 | 64 |
| 13 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 4 | 1,154 | 76 | 13 |
| 14 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 1 | 1,138 | 171 | 115 |
| 15 | New Phytologist | 12 | 945 | 115 | 126 |
| 16 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 24 | 759 | 23 | 41 |
| 17 | Global Change Biology | 6 | 606 | 187 | 245 |
| 18 | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 4 | 604 | 50 | 21 |
| 19 | PLoS Genetics | 8 | 538 | 230 | 409 |
| 20 | Molecular Ecology | 11 | 523 | 108 | 174 |
| 21 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 6 | 520 | 98 | 89 |
| 22 | Evolutionary Ecology | 3 | 518 | 65 | 10 |
| 23 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 7 | 488 | 216 | 219 |
| 24 | Systematic Biology | 4 | 471 | 57 | 54 |
| 25 | Nature Plants | 4 | 446 | 41 | 44 |
| 26 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 8 | 445 | 369 | 213 |
| 27 | Oecologia | 7 | 430 | 179 | 208 |
| 28 | PLoS Biology | 1 | 413 | 757 | 320 |
| 29 | Nature Communications | 4 | 392 | 3.1K | 3.1K |
| 30 | Ecology | 5 | 374 | 214 | 257 |
| 31 | Nucleic Acids Research | 1 | 329 | 2.5K | 871 |
| 32 | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 5 | 324 | 75 | 74 |
| 33 | Journal of Biogeography | 4 | 314 | 124 | 101 |
| 34 | Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics | 1 | 288 | 43 | 9 |
| 35 | Genome Biology and Evolution | 8 | 267 | 35 | 43 |
| 36 | PLoS Computational Biology | 1 | 265 | 1.3K | 306 |
| 36 | Ecosystems | 2 | 265 | 134 | 90 |
| 38 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2 | 262 | 5.3K | 5.6K |
| 39 | Trends in Genetics | 2 | 261 | 138 | 186 |
| 40 | Biogeochemistry | 3 | 250 | 92 | 72 |
| 41 | Plant and Soil | 3 | 249 | 304 | 166 |
| 42 | Journal of Ecology | 4 | 240 | 120 | 166 |
| 43 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2 | 233 | 232 | 117 |
| 44 | Nature Reviews Genetics | 1 | 223 | 155 | 352 |
| 45 | American Journal of Botany | 8 | 219 | 141 | 174 |
| 46 | Fisheries Oceanography | 2 | 212 | 33 | 8 |
| 47 | MSphere | 2 | 193 | 160 | 36 |
| 48 | Insect Conservation and Diversity | 4 | 191 | 10 | 8 |
| 49 | Functional Ecology | 3 | 188 | 148 | 161 |
| 50 | Scientific Data | 2 | 186 | 156 | 171 |
| 51 | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 4 | 177 | 92 | 136 |
| 52 | Biological Reviews | 1 | 171 | 215 | 252 |
| 53 | Emu | 1 | 163 | 67 | 13 |
| 53 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 1 | 163 | 277 | 212 |
| 55 | BMC Genomics | 4 | 160 | 412 | 600 |
| 56 | GeoHealth | 2 | 155 | 13 | 5 |
| 57 | Journal of Vegetation Science | 3 | 152 | 115 | 133 |
| 57 | G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics | 4 | 152 | 104 | 88 |
| 59 | Ecological Monographs | 2 | 149 | 61 | 126 |
| 60 | Virology | 1 | 142 | 1.3K | 663 |
| 61 | Limnology and Oceanography | 3 | 139 | 215 | 312 |
| 62 | Animal Behaviour | 3 | 138 | 346 | 383 |
| 63 | Nature Geoscience | 1 | 123 | 260 | 380 |
| 64 | Genetical Research | 3 | 104 | 57 | 55 |
| 65 | Aquatic Botany | 2 | 96 | 60 | 64 |
| 66 | Journal of Neurobiology | 1 | 92 | 239 | 192 |
| 67 | Journal of Virology | 1 | 91 | 2.1K | 1.9K |
| 68 | Physiological Genomics | 1 | 86 | 326 | 285 |
| 69 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2 | 84 | 450 | 918 |
| 69 | Conservation Biology | 2 | 84 | 227 | 414 |
| 69 | Diversity and Distributions | 1 | 84 | 192 | 170 |
| 72 | Environmental Pollution | 1 | 83 | 1.6K | 1.2K |
| 73 | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 1 | 81 | 315 | 246 |
| 73 | Ecosphere | 2 | 81 | 198 | 174 |
| 73 | Physiological and Biochemical Zoology | 1 | 81 | 96 | 62 |
| 76 | Physiology | 2 | 79 | 26 | 149 |
| 77 | Atmospheric Environment | 1 | 77 | 961 | 817 |
| 78 | Environmental Science & Technology | 1 | 76 | 1.9K | 1.9K |
| 79 | Journal of Insect Behavior | 2 | 74 | 61 | 49 |
| 80 | Journal of Chemical Ecology | 2 | 73 | 231 | 316 |
| 81 | Marine Biology | 3 | 71 | 235 | 384 |
| 82 | Journal of Neuroscience | 1 | 70 | 2.0K | 2.6K |
| 83 | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 2 | 69 | 3.7K | 3.9K |
| 83 | Frontiers in Genetics | 2 | 69 | 668 | 468 |
| 85 | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 1 | 68 | 420 | 388 |
| 85 | Annual Review of Physiology | 1 | 68 | 88 | 294 |
| 87 | Forest Ecology and Management | 1 | 66 | 514 | 423 |
| 88 | Molecular Ecology Resources | 3 | 65 | 103 | 273 |
| 89 | Journal of Mammalogy | 1 | 60 | 381 | 243 |
| 90 | American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology | 2 | 59 | 660 | 834 |
| 90 | Insect Molecular Biology | 1 | 59 | 152 | 154 |
| 90 | Physiological Zoology | 1 | 59 | 10 | 11 |
| 93 | Journal of Bacteriology | 1 | 54 | 1.6K | 1.8K |
| 93 | IScience | 1 | 54 | 848 | 387 |
| 95 | Genetics | 4 | 50 | 397 | 1.1K |
| 96 | Current Opinion in Genetics and Development | 1 | 45 | 210 | 401 |
| 97 | Insectes Sociaux | 2 | 44 | 81 | 111 |
| 98 | Journal of Morphology | 1 | 43 | 499 | 383 |
| 98 | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 4 | 43 | 52 | 209 |
| 100 | Bioinformatics | 2 | 41 | 791 | 1.4K |
| 100 | RNA Biology | 1 | 41 | 215 | 275 |
| 102 | MBio | 3 | 40 | 401 | 1.3K |
| 103 | Biochemical Systematics and Ecology | 1 | 39 | 359 | 185 |
| 103 | Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 1 | 39 | 143 | 277 |
| 105 | Protein Science | 1 | 38 | 794 | 895 |
| 106 | Mycologia | 2 | 37 | 270 | 350 |
| 106 | Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology | 1 | 37 | 317 | 380 |
| 108 | Educational Technology Research and Development | 1 | 36 | 59 | 92 |
| 109 | Heredity | 2 | 34 | 256 | 517 |
| 109 | Urban Ecosystems | 1 | 34 | 88 | 121 |
| 109 | Zoology | 3 | 34 | 28 | 98 |
| 109 | MSystems | 1 | 34 | 302 | 350 |
| 109 | Atmospheric Environment: X | 1 | 34 | 4 | 9 |
| 114 | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 1 | 33 | 3.2K | 3.5K |
| 114 | BMC Genetics | 1 | 33 | 197 | 318 |
| 114 | Botany | 1 | 33 | 93 | 56 |
| 114 | MycoKeys | 1 | 33 | 20 | 16 |
| 118 | Ecology and Evolution | 5 | 32 | 199 | 674 |
| 119 | Infection, Genetics and Evolution | 3 | 31 | 160 | 553 |
| 120 | Frontiers in Neurology | 1 | 30 | 1.7K | 1.5K |
| 120 | Biotropica | 2 | 30 | 92 | 217 |
| 122 | Condor | 2 | 29 | 183 | 264 |
| 122 | BioEssays | 2 | 29 | 193 | 764 |
| 122 | Advances in Parasitology | 1 | 29 | 46 | 125 |
| 125 | Biological Control | 1 | 28 | 166 | 267 |
| 126 | Plant Ecology | 1 | 27 | 214 | 303 |
| 126 | Pedobiologia | 1 | 27 | 63 | 97 |
| 126 | Eos | 1 | 27 | 208 | 159 |
| 129 | Zoonoses and Public Health | 1 | 26 | 124 | 182 |
| 130 | Genome Biology | 1 | 25 | 473 | 1.1K |
| 131 | Restoration Ecology | 1 | 24 | 179 | 277 |
| 132 | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 1 | 23 | 538 | 781 |
| 132 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 1 | 23 | 278 | 548 |
| 132 | Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources | 5 | 23 | 157 | 95 |
| 132 | Applied Soil Ecology | 1 | 23 | 227 | 417 |
| 132 | Ecological Entomology | 2 | 23 | 133 | 277 |
| 132 | Microbiology Australia | 1 | 23 | 9 | 5 |
| 138 | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2 | 22 | 180 | 504 |
| 138 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 1 | 22 | 538 | 919 |
| 138 | Limnology and Oceanography Letters | 1 | 22 | 19 | 43 |
| 138 | Genome Biology | 1 | 22 | 300 | 805 |
| 142 | Developmental Biology | 1 | 21 | 1.1K | 1.8K |
| 142 | Microbial Ecology | 1 | 21 | 395 | 746 |
| 142 | Plant Biology | 3 | 21 | 51 | 339 |
| 142 | Rejuvenation Research | 1 | 21 | 86 | 205 |
| 142 | Ethology | 1 | 21 | 259 | 346 |
| 147 | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1 | 20 | 73 | 59 |
| 148 | Journal of Visualized Experiments | 2 | 19 | 1.6K | 1.2K |
| 148 | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 1 | 19 | 369 | 583 |
| 148 | Biogerontology | 2 | 19 | 58 | 301 |
| 148 | National Science Review | 1 | 19 | 215 | 456 |
| 152 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2 | 18 | 1.2K | 3.2K |
| 152 | Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences | 1 | 18 | 786 | 1.4K |
| 152 | Ecohydrology | 1 | 18 | 135 | 227 |
| 155 | Scientific Reports | 3 | 17 | 10.0K | 22.6K |
| 155 | Respiration Physiology | 1 | 17 | 180 | 256 |
| 155 | Journal of Thermal Biology | 1 | 17 | 316 | 436 |
| 155 | Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society | 1 | 17 | 19 | 4 |
| 155 | Molecular Plant | 1 | 17 | 189 | 421 |
| 155 | Compendium of Plant Genomes | 1 | 17 | 24 | 7 |
| 161 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 2 | 16 | 670 | 1.9K |
| 161 | Journal of Fish Biology | 1 | 16 | 528 | 647 |
| 161 | Pest Management Science | 1 | 16 | 307 | 534 |
| 161 | BioSystems | 1 | 16 | 267 | 402 |
| 161 | Current Opinion in Insect Science | 2 | 16 | 23 | 127 |
| 166 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1 | 15 | 1.5K | 3.0K |
| 166 | Elementa | 2 | 15 | 26 | 109 |
| 168 | Annals of Botany | 1 | 14 | 313 | 633 |
| 169 | Genetica | 1 | 13 | 224 | 365 |
| 170 | Genes | 1 | 12 | 1.2K | 1.6K |
| 170 | Biological Invasions | 1 | 12 | 302 | 584 |
| 170 | Experimental Biology Online | 1 | 12 | 4 | 7 |
| 173 | Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport | 1 | 11 | 265 | 443 |
| 173 | Journal of the Royal Society Interface | 1 | 11 | 598 | 1.4K |
| 173 | Conservation Genetics Resources | 2 | 11 | 93 | 119 |
| 173 | Mobile DNA | 1 | 11 | 41 | 97 |
| 177 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 1 | 10 | 167 | 411 |
| 177 | Integrative Zoology | 1 | 10 | 71 | 159 |
| 177 | Fly | 2 | 10 | 14 | 103 |
| 180 | BMC Bioinformatics | 1 | 9 | 1.3K | 2.4K |
| 180 | Communications Biology | 1 | 9 | 777 | 2.0K |
| 180 | American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education | 1 | 9 | 177 | 292 |
| 183 | BMC Ecology | 1 | 8 | 40 | 188 |
| 184 | Trends in Microbiology | 1 | 7 | 237 | 665 |
| 184 | Biology Open | 1 | 7 | 186 | 637 |
| 184 | Fish and Fisheries | 1 | 7 | 68 | 212 |
| 187 | Journal of Heredity | 1 | 6 | 170 | 390 |
| 187 | Environmental Microbiology | 1 | 6 | 589 | 1.4K |
| 187 | Evolutionary Applications | 1 | 6 | 140 | 414 |
| 190 | Acta Tropica | 1 | 5 | 547 | 1.3K |
| 190 | Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research | 1 | 5 | 144 | 327 |
| 190 | ACS Earth and Space Chemistry | 1 | 5 | 143 | 345 |
| 190 | Natureza A Conservacao | 1 | 5 | 2 | 15 |
| 190 | Integrative Organismal Biology | 1 | 5 | 23 | 53 |
| 190 | Open Health Data | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 196 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 1 | 4 | 617 | 1.5K |
| 196 | Molecular Ecology Notes | 1 | 4 | 109 | 248 |
| 196 | Research in Sports Medicine | 1 | 4 | 52 | 170 |
| 196 | Ecological Restoration | 1 | 4 | 7 | 19 |
| 196 | Molecular Vision | 1 | 4 | 293 | 688 |
| 201 | Science Signaling | 1 | 3 | 476 | 1.4K |
| 201 | ELife | 1 | 3 | 1.9K | 4.5K |
| 201 | Journal of Ornithology | 1 | 3 | 155 | 308 |
| 201 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 3 | 366 | 916 |
| 205 | PLoS Pathogens | 1 | 2 | 1.3K | 2.9K |
| 206 | Blood | 1 | 1 | 4.9K | 6.5K |
| 206 | Annals of the Entomological Society of America | 1 | 1 | 215 | 496 |
| 206 | Conservation Genetics | 1 | 1 | 222 | 555 |
| 206 | American Entomologist | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 210 | Applied Mathematics Letters | 1 | 0 | 605 | 1.3K |
| 210 | Experimental Gerontology | 1 | 0 | 612 | 1.9K |
| 210 | Ageing and Society | 1 | 0 | 213 | 615 |
| 210 | Society of General Physiologists Series | 1 | 0 | 8 | 54 |
