Name: List of Top Disciplines of Biology sorted by citations
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Published: 2026-01-17T11:30:22Z
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582(top 1%)

papers

20.9K(top 1%)

citations

76(top 1%)

h-index

118(top 1%)

g-index

724

all documents

24.8K

doc citations

3.1K

citing journals

Top Disciplines (by citations)

#	Discipline	Articles	Citations	R ARank	R CRank
1	Molecular Biology	103	6.3K	118	147
2	Ecology	136	5.8K	123	174
3	Botany	76	3.7K	121	139
4	Molecular ecology	42	3.0K	44	54
5	Molecular Genetics	35	2.7K	60	58
6	Biology	57	2.6K	413	638
7	Population Genetics	34	2.6K	47	45
8	Cell Biology	33	1.9K	188	472
9	Plant cells	34	1.6K	49	90
10	Biochemistry	35	1.6K	452	474
11	Plants	28	1.4K	76	98
12	plant molecular biology	27	1.4K	54	84
13	Environment	13	1.1K	471	593
14	Microbiology	22	1.0K	268	303
15	Biodiversity conservation	14	1.0K	279	468
16	Pollution	10	902	523	633
17	Climate change	9	901	270	477
17	Eutrophication	9	901	267	473
19	Bacteriology	10	766	190	199
20	Molecular Microbiology	13	683	36	46
21	biological evolution	16	670	86	125
22	Environmental Microbiology	6	653	202	83
22	Microbial Ecology	6	653	303	127
24	Science	8	648	2404	2134
25	Chemistry	12	582	3047	2581
26	Genetics	13	521	272	446
27	Biotechnology	11	496	522	653
28	Biogeography	8	494	285	266
29	Virology	3	482	926	993
30	Cytology	2	454	3481	1287
31	Geography	7	451	344	182
32	Computational Biology	9	440	179	257
33	environmental protection	7	398	176	152
34	Animal ecology	15	396	71	109
35	Algae	7	379	70	33
35	Seaweed	7	379	46	31
37	Physics	1	377	4474	1688
37	Natural history	1	377	1285	1111
39	Zoology	19	368	132	210
40	Technology	9	364	465	506
41	Bioengineering	8	343	339	495
42	Nanotechnology	4	308	2401	1676
42	Nanostructured Materials	4	308	2305	1513
42	Nanoparticles	4	308	1796	1271
45	Evolution	16	286	138	533
46	Biomedical Engineering	1	258	1875	353
47	Visual Perception	5	250	920	647
47	Memory	5	250	937	652
47	Attention	5	250	923	648
47	Perception	5	250	928	657
51	plant communities	7	249	216	375
52	Plant breeding	4	241	79	38
53	Fisheries	9	238	143	192
54	Optical materials	3	234	3051	2902
55	Plant physiology	6	233	296	427
56	Biophysics	7	229	1030	1023
57	Materials	2	228	4995	3785
58	Entomology	14	218	108	177
59	Plant Ecology	7	208	320	557
60	Conservation Biology	4	189	230	310
61	Medical genetics	4	184	1815	2101
62	Agricultural Ecology	5	180	197	407
62	Agriculture	5	180	370	584
64	Cancer	2	154	2550	1898
65	Medicine	2	149	8044	5165
66	Systems Biology	1	145	400	147
67	Protozoa	2	142	135	69
68	Pharmaceutical Chemistry	5	119	984	1050
69	Embryology	4	116	552	940
70	Neuropsychiatry	2	109	297	278
71	Culture techniques	4	104	51	99
72	Archaea	1	95	12	14
73	Analytical Biochemistry	1	92	270	143
74	Biodiversity	6	87	357	830
75	Anatomy	4	84	872	1498
76	Food Safety	2	82	119	55
76	Molecular evolution	2	82	249	328
76	food contamination	2	82	177	95
76	food handling	2	82	153	113
80	Reproduction	2	76	940	841
81	Insects	3	75	267	270
82	Developmental Biology	3	74	877	1485
83	Epidemiology	2	73	1275	1333
83	Genetic epidemiology	2	73	288	265
83	heredity	2	73	307	281
86	Physiology	5	70	1449	3722
87	Cell differentiation	1	62	1761	1973
87	Growth	1	62	1246	1155
89	Pharmacology	2	58	4234	5263
89	Host-parasite interactions	1	58	255	367
91	Immunology	2	53	2360	3598
91	Parasitology	2	53	256	320
91	Parasites	2	53	175	224
94	cell physiology	3	52	560	1779
95	Therapeutics	1	50	2026	2458
95	drug therapy	1	50	2760	2953
97	Restoration Ecology	3	49	97	229
98	ecosystem	1	43	845	1305
99	embryonic development	1	42	209	179
100	eugenics	1	39	230	173
101	Animal genetics	1	36	304	300
102	Geophysics	2	33	3112	5305
102	Industrial Microbiology	1	33	452	696
102	protein	3	33	400	848
102	Planets	2	33	1988	3878
102	proteins	4	33	531	1651
107	Genomics	2	32	608	1286
107	Electromagnetism	1	32	896	1072
107	Magnetic Materials	1	32	992	1201
110	Japan	3	31	279	513
111	viruses	1	28	448	889
112	Plant Biotechnology	1	25	645	1310
112	Plant genetic engineering	1	25	661	1341
114	Animal health	1	23	29	28
115	Hydrology	1	21	2444	3564
115	Water	1	21	1759	2901
115	water supply	1	21	1622	2647
118	Animal Behavior	2	20	385	1046
118	Ethology	2	20	317	879
120	Bioinformatics	1	18	683	1183
120	Wildlife management	5	18	109	445
120	genome	1	18	443	856
123	Child	1	17	3815	4292
123	Obesity	1	17	3424	5538
125	Africa	4	16	129	566
126	Plant Taxonomy	2	15	345	645
127	Psychology	2	12	3197	7896
128	Anthropology	2	11	427	988
128	Human evolution	2	11	92	312
130	Morphology	1	10	230	432
130	Fishery management	1	10	729	1350
130	Aquaculture	1	10	730	1253
133	Developmental Immunology	1	7	161	469
133	Immune system	1	7	566	1574
133	Phylogeny	1	7	141	346
136	Photonics	1	6	2746	5333
137	food technology	1	5	2958	6601
137	Food	1	5	2629	6204
139	Public Health	1	4	3758	8313
139	Electrophoresis	1	4	1963	4386
139	Astrocytes	1	4	457	1499
142	animals	1	3	388	1102
142	Animal	1	3	127	453
144	Wildlife conservation	1	2	391	1113
144	Spain	1	2	50	192
146	Environmental Policy	1	1	702	1949
146	Mycology	1	1	297	554
146	Europe	1	1	1165	2889
149	Drug design	1	0	914	2928
149	peptides	1	0	924	2914
149	Earth Sciences	1	0	1038	2989

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