| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Animal Behaviour | 40 | 3,035 | 12 | 9 |
| 2 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 29 | 2,565 | 48 | 33 |
| 3 | Nature | 14 | 2,243 | 849 | 1.7K |
| 4 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 28 | 1,897 | 18 | 17 |
| 5 | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 26 | 1,545 | 15 | 12 |
| 6 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences | 3 | 1,511 | 33 | 5 |
| 7 | Aquatic Toxicology | 12 | 1,445 | 27 | 7 |
| 8 | Journal of Experimental Biology | 29 | 1,316 | 50 | 56 |
| 9 | General and Comparative Endocrinology | 29 | 1,200 | 24 | 24 |
| 10 | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 18 | 1,167 | 80 | 65 |
| 11 | Hydrobiologia | 33 | 1,069 | 7 | 9 |
| 12 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 8 | 969 | 40 | 8 |
| 13 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 4 | 950 | 108 | 97 |
| 14 | Journal of Fish Biology | 30 | 935 | 16 | 16 |
| 15 | Zoologica Scripta | 44 | 869 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Functional Ecology | 16 | 679 | 17 | 40 |
| 17 | Evolutionary Bioinformatics | 1 | 673 | 61 | 1 |
| 18 | Hormones and Behavior | 13 | 603 | 29 | 53 |
| 19 | Ibis | 21 | 588 | 3 | 8 |
| 20 | Chemosphere | 2 | 549 | 1.9K | 298 |
| 21 | Molecular Ecology | 9 | 545 | 141 | 165 |
| 22 | Oecologia | 11 | 521 | 118 | 167 |
| 23 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 8 | 513 | 80 | 58 |
| 24 | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - C: Toxicology and Pharmacology | 2 | 489 | 123 | 8 |
| 25 | PLoS ONE | 7 | 468 | 6.4K | 3.4K |
| 26 | Journal of Zoology | 16 | 422 | 31 | 49 |
| 27 | Systematic Biology | 3 | 410 | 77 | 63 |
| 28 | Ophelia | 11 | 405 | 2 | 2 |
| 29 | Behavioral Ecology | 8 | 401 | 31 | 17 |
| 30 | Sarsia | 27 | 391 | 3 | 4 |
| 31 | Biological Conservation | 8 | 384 | 72 | 134 |
| 32 | Ethology | 7 | 375 | 33 | 17 |
| 33 | American Naturalist | 4 | 362 | 84 | 72 |
| 34 | Zootaxa | 12 | 332 | 129 | 26 |
| 35 | Cladistics | 8 | 313 | 9 | 20 |
| 36 | Cell and Tissue Research | 12 | 299 | 64 | 132 |
| 37 | Aquaculture | 5 | 275 | 170 | 136 |
| 38 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 1 | 246 | 1.4K | 189 |
| 38 | Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | 6 | 246 | 133 | 157 |
| 40 | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | 10 | 242 | 13 | 18 |
| 41 | American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology | 8 | 241 | 172 | 218 |
| 42 | Forest Ecology and Management | 6 | 235 | 105 | 125 |
| 43 | Environmental Science & Technology | 1 | 226 | 1.9K | 975 |
| 44 | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 6 | 221 | 86 | 104 |
| 45 | Theoretical Population Biology | 2 | 220 | 107 | 57 |
| 46 | Neuron | 1 | 219 | 969 | 1.1K |
| 47 | Zoomorphology | 8 | 204 | 4 | 7 |
| 48 | Microscopy Research and Technique | 2 | 197 | 271 | 64 |
| 49 | Fungal Ecology | 1 | 194 | 74 | 16 |
| 50 | British Journal of Nutrition | 1 | 188 | 1.1K | 357 |
| 50 | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 3 | 188 | 142 | 147 |
| 52 | Auk | 7 | 171 | 70 | 90 |
| 53 | Journal of Animal Ecology | 2 | 168 | 180 | 158 |
| 54 | Science of the Total Environment | 3 | 161 | 1.8K | 1.7K |
| 54 | Behaviour | 5 | 161 | 25 | 56 |
| 56 | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 10 | 160 | 28 | 90 |
| 56 | Acta Zoologica | 10 | 160 | 4 | 4 |
| 58 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1 | 158 | 782 | 584 |
| 59 | Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science | 6 | 157 | 68 | 129 |
| 60 | Amphibia - Reptilia | 9 | 154 | 1 | 5 |
| 61 | Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | 3 | 144 | 78 | 89 |
| 62 | Environmental Biology of Fishes | 2 | 142 | 170 | 73 |
| 63 | Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology | 1 | 140 | 317 | 125 |
| 64 | Journal of Morphology | 3 | 138 | 202 | 130 |
| 65 | Marine Biology | 3 | 137 | 235 | 222 |
| 66 | Bioinformatics | 1 | 133 | 1.4K | 687 |
| 67 | Organisms Diversity and Evolution | 4 | 132 | 10 | 9 |
| 68 | Aquaculture Research | 1 | 130 | 313 | 54 |
| 69 | Conservation Biology | 3 | 129 | 158 | 329 |
| 70 | Biological Reviews | 1 | 128 | 215 | 314 |
| 71 | Condor | 3 | 124 | 136 | 109 |
| 72 | Molecular Ecology Resources | 3 | 120 | 103 | 158 |
| 72 | EcoHealth | 1 | 120 | 106 | 50 |
| 74 | Limnology and Oceanography | 3 | 119 | 215 | 342 |
| 75 | Marine Biology Research | 5 | 116 | 7 | 4 |
| 76 | Fish Physiology and Biochemistry | 4 | 115 | 68 | 67 |
| 77 | Heredity | 5 | 111 | 104 | 232 |
| 78 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 1 | 109 | 1.2K | 511 |
| 79 | New Phytologist | 1 | 107 | 904 | 825 |
| 80 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1 | 106 | 7.7K | 8.9K |
| 81 | Environmental Microbiology | 2 | 102 | 347 | 504 |
| 81 | Biodiversity and Conservation | 4 | 102 | 64 | 161 |
| 81 | Biofouling | 1 | 102 | 164 | 92 |
| 84 | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 3 | 101 | 107 | 115 |
| 84 | Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology | 4 | 101 | 81 | 122 |
| 84 | Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research | 4 | 101 | 10 | 15 |
| 87 | Species Diversity | 1 | 98 | 36 | 1 |
| 88 | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom | 5 | 97 | 56 | 81 |
| 89 | Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research | 3 | 92 | 31 | 24 |
| 89 | Journal of Sea Research | 3 | 92 | 4 | 12 |
| 91 | Journal of Natural History | 6 | 89 | 42 | 35 |
| 92 | Anatomy and Embryology | 6 | 87 | 37 | 107 |
| 92 | Marine Environmental Research | 3 | 87 | 65 | 87 |
| 92 | Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical | 2 | 87 | 168 | 89 |
| 95 | Environmental Research | 1 | 80 | 1.4K | 912 |
| 96 | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 2 | 79 | 611 | 728 |
| 97 | Marine Geology | 1 | 78 | 288 | 239 |
| 98 | Ecology | 3 | 77 | 305 | 613 |
| 99 | Die Naturwissenschaften | 3 | 73 | 90 | 155 |
| 99 | Biology Letters | 3 | 73 | 140 | 262 |
| 101 | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1 | 70 | 335 | 321 |
| 102 | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A, Comparative Experimental Biology | 3 | 69 | 1 | 15 |
| 103 | Transactions of the American Fisheries Society | 1 | 68 | 202 | 133 |
| 104 | BMC Genomics | 1 | 65 | 1.6K | 1.4K |
| 104 | Evolutionary Ecology | 3 | 65 | 65 | 144 |
| 106 | Human Nature | 1 | 59 | 84 | 92 |
| 107 | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 1 | 58 | 134 | 91 |
| 107 | Marine Ecology | 1 | 58 | 74 | 44 |
| 109 | The Journal of Experimental Zoology | 2 | 56 | 313 | 364 |
| 110 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 1 | 53 | 620 | 814 |
| 111 | Journal of Endocrinology | 1 | 52 | 415 | 407 |
| 112 | Canadian Journal of Forest Research | 2 | 50 | 69 | 59 |
| 113 | Toxicology in Vitro | 1 | 49 | 462 | 410 |
| 113 | Conservation Genetics | 1 | 49 | 222 | 142 |
| 115 | Current Eye Research | 1 | 47 | 628 | 429 |
| 116 | Journal of Arachnology | 2 | 45 | 27 | 23 |
| 117 | Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA) | 2 | 44 | 61 | 108 |
| 118 | Journal of Biogeography | 1 | 43 | 421 | 551 |
| 119 | Environment International | 1 | 42 | 817 | 1.3K |
| 119 | Physiological and Biochemical Zoology | 1 | 42 | 96 | 99 |
| 121 | Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | 3 | 40 | 278 | 466 |
| 121 | Ornis Svecica | 16 | 40 | 2 | 4 |
| 123 | Cell Transplantation | 1 | 39 | 462 | 524 |
| 123 | Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research | 2 | 39 | 56 | 133 |
| 125 | Journal of Applied Physiology | 1 | 38 | 1.3K | 1.6K |
| 126 | Journal of Wildlife Management | 1 | 37 | 128 | 141 |
| 127 | Phytochemistry | 1 | 36 | 1.1K | 1.3K |
| 127 | Bird Study | 2 | 36 | 27 | 29 |
| 129 | International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction | 1 | 35 | 17 | 13 |
| 130 | Brain Research | 1 | 34 | 3.3K | 4.0K |
| 130 | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 1 | 34 | 326 | 445 |
| 130 | Biotechnic & Histochemistry | 1 | 34 | 111 | 89 |
| 133 | Mammalian Species | 1 | 33 | 41 | 39 |
| 134 | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 1 | 32 | 994 | 1.3K |
| 134 | Gamete Research | 1 | 32 | 51 | 79 |
| 136 | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 1 | 31 | 742 | 978 |
| 136 | Animal Conservation | 2 | 31 | 69 | 193 |
| 138 | Fisheries Science | 1 | 30 | 142 | 120 |
| 138 | Comparative Hepatology | 1 | 30 | 14 | 15 |
| 140 | Journal of Fish Diseases | 1 | 29 | 252 | 267 |
| 140 | Journal of Mammalogy | 2 | 29 | 258 | 384 |
| 140 | Plant Ecology | 1 | 29 | 56 | 86 |
| 143 | Mitochondrial DNA | 1 | 28 | 103 | 65 |
| 144 | Journal of Comparative Neurology | 2 | 27 | 846 | 1.7K |
| 144 | Biology and Philosophy | 1 | 27 | 125 | 130 |
| 144 | EvoDevo | 1 | 27 | 29 | 60 |
| 147 | Comptes Rendus - Biologies | 1 | 26 | 28 | 86 |
| 147 | Learning and Behavior | 1 | 26 | 137 | 138 |
| 149 | Developmental Brain Research | 2 | 25 | 228 | 598 |
| 149 | Zeitschrift Für Parasitenkunde (Berlin, Germany) | 3 | 25 | 58 | 129 |
| 149 | Annales Zoologici Fennici | 2 | 25 | 15 | 35 |
| 152 | Bioacoustics | 1 | 24 | 50 | 66 |
| 152 | Experimental Biology Online | 2 | 24 | 1 | 4 |
| 154 | Ostrich | 1 | 22 | 51 | 32 |
| 154 | Zoology in the Middle East | 2 | 22 | 60 | 36 |
| 156 | Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry | 1 | 21 | 1.5K | 1.8K |
| 156 | Journal of Plankton Research | 1 | 21 | 57 | 99 |
| 156 | Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology | 1 | 21 | 388 | 707 |
| 156 | Ethology Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 21 | 67 | 67 |
| 160 | American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism | 1 | 20 | 890 | 1.5K |
| 160 | New Zealand Journal of Zoology | 1 | 20 | 27 | 31 |
| 160 | Journal of Ornithology | 4 | 20 | 40 | 151 |
| 160 | WIT Transactions on State-of-the-art in Science and Engineering | 2 | 20 | 26 | 2 |
| 164 | Aquaculture Nutrition | 1 | 19 | 106 | 166 |
| 164 | Invertebrate Biology | 2 | 19 | 24 | 75 |
| 164 | Cytoskeleton | 1 | 19 | 198 | 371 |
| 167 | Journal of Cellular Biochemistry | 1 | 18 | 1.6K | 2.6K |
| 167 | Experimental Physiology | 1 | 18 | 427 | 697 |
| 169 | Infection Ecology and Epidemiology | 2 | 17 | 12 | 33 |
| 170 | Molecular Biology Reports | 1 | 16 | 1.2K | 1.5K |
| 170 | Journal of Wildlife Diseases | 1 | 16 | 329 | 442 |
| 170 | Biologia (Poland) | 1 | 16 | 297 | 244 |
| 170 | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C, Comparative Pharmacology and Toxicology | 1 | 16 | 68 | 95 |
| 170 | Acta Physiologica Scandinavica Supplementum | 1 | 16 | 12 | 14 |
| 175 | Gene | 1 | 15 | 2.0K | 3.2K |
| 175 | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A, Comparative Physiology | 1 | 15 | 400 | 509 |
| 175 | International Journal for Parasitology | 1 | 15 | 459 | 855 |
| 175 | Biological Invasions | 1 | 15 | 302 | 541 |
| 175 | Evolutionary Psychology | 1 | 15 | 180 | 207 |
| 175 | Journal of Environmental Management | 1 | 15 | 1.6K | 3.2K |
| 181 | Journal of Neural Transmission | 1 | 14 | 649 | 1.2K |
| 181 | Cancer Informatics | 1 | 14 | 74 | 96 |
| 183 | Australian Journal of Zoology | 1 | 13 | 31 | 48 |
| 183 | Italian Journal of Zoology | 1 | 13 | 34 | 52 |
| 183 | Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management | 1 | 13 | 49 | 60 |
| 186 | Freshwater Biology | 1 | 12 | 331 | 615 |
| 186 | Journal of Insect Behavior | 1 | 12 | 116 | 207 |
| 186 | Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis | 1 | 12 | 421 | 984 |
| 189 | Life Sciences | 1 | 11 | 2.5K | 4.5K |
| 190 | Environmental Pollution | 1 | 10 | 1.6K | 3.3K |
| 190 | BMC Bioinformatics | 1 | 10 | 1.3K | 2.3K |
| 192 | Journal of Molluscan Studies | 1 | 9 | 41 | 83 |
| 192 | BMC Molecular Biology | 1 | 9 | 45 | 292 |
| 192 | Water, Air, and Soil Pollution | 1 | 9 | 933 | 1.8K |
| 195 | Zoological Science | 1 | 8 | 199 | 338 |
| 195 | Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases | 1 | 8 | 229 | 520 |
| 197 | Science | 3 | 7 | 2.9K | 9.3K |
| 197 | Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 7 | 693 | 1.4K |
| 197 | Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology | 1 | 7 | 310 | 712 |
| 200 | Polar Biology | 1 | 6 | 223 | 450 |
| 200 | Ecography | 1 | 6 | 75 | 199 |
| 200 | Journal of Paleolimnology | 1 | 6 | 187 | 401 |
| 203 | Journal of Cell Biology | 1 | 5 | 1.2K | 2.6K |
| 203 | Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington | 2 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| 205 | Proceedings in Life Sciences | 1 | 4 | 22 | 74 |
| 206 | Cells Tissues Organs | 2 | 3 | 113 | 717 |
| 206 | Development Growth and Differentiation | 1 | 3 | 197 | 503 |
| 206 | Laboratory Animals | 1 | 3 | 111 | 498 |
| 206 | ZooKeys | 1 | 3 | 197 | 378 |
| 206 | Systematic Entomology | 1 | 3 | 101 | 259 |
| 206 | Ecoscience | 1 | 3 | 67 | 211 |
| 206 | Russian Journal of Herpetology | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 |
| 206 | Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology | 1 | 3 | 48 | 67 |
| 214 | Verhandlungen Der Internationalen Vereinigung Fur Theoretische Und Angewandte Limnologie International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 214 | Environmental Conservation | 1 | 1 | 122 | 361 |
| 214 | Molecular Brain Research | 1 | 1 | 453 | 1.1K |
| 214 | Historical Biology | 1 | 1 | 111 | 284 |
| 214 | South American Journal of Herpetology | 1 | 1 | 9 | 30 |
| 219 | Zoophysiology | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
