Name: List of Top Disciplines of Ecology sorted by citations
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Published: 2026-01-15T17:20:14Z
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329(top 1%)

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14.1K(top 1%)

citations

58(top 1%)

h-index

109(top 1%)

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366

all documents

16.9K

doc citations

2.2K

citing journals

Top Disciplines (by citations)

#	Discipline	Articles	Citations	R ARank	R CRank
1	Ecology	82	4.0K	229	272
2	Biodiversity conservation	24	3.5K	145	89
3	Pollution	36	3.4K	109	117
4	Environment	19	3.1K	300	149
5	Climate change	18	3.1K	117	81
5	Eutrophication	18	3.1K	116	81
7	Botany	20	1.3K	572	504
8	Plant Ecology	17	1.1K	119	100
9	Microbial Ecology	15	985	81	85
10	Environmental Microbiology	12	892	78	61
10	Molecular Biology	19	892	1138	1277
10	Evolution	15	892	148	202
13	plant communities	9	832	155	83
14	Plant cells	5	818	498	259
15	Plant physiology	3	685	575	118
16	Biogeochemical cycles	1	512	588	166
17	Nutrition	8	437	512	367
17	Food Microbiology	8	437	138	126
17	food technology	8	437	470	273
17	Food	8	437	337	252
21	Biology	19	408	1707	3190
22	Zoology	12	364	238	212
23	Agricultural Ecology	9	355	91	179
23	Agriculture	9	355	207	274
25	Animal ecology	11	354	116	136
26	Toxicology	18	298	196	447
26	Environmental Chemistry	18	298	48	196
26	pollutants	18	298	40	118
26	Environmental pollutants	18	298	56	147
26	environmental pollution	18	298	132	324
31	Molecular Genetics	8	284	370	521
31	Population Genetics	8	284	311	470
31	Molecular ecology	8	284	395	602
34	Geophysics	4	283	1905	1270
35	Biotechnology	2	282	2741	1083
35	Atmospheric Physics	3	282	704	358
37	Genetic engineering	1	277	659	203
37	Biochemical Engineering	1	277	1032	361
37	Industrial Microbiology	1	277	452	96
40	Plants	4	209	595	703
41	Biogeography	8	203	285	658
42	Cell Biology	4	183	2575	3111
43	plant molecular biology	3	171	581	744
44	ecosystem	5	164	243	563
45	Genetics	5	137	669	1289
45	biological evolution	5	137	283	577
47	Biodiversity	7	136	291	536
48	Conservation Biology	5	127	178	434
48	Wildlife conservation	5	127	79	133
50	Wildlife management	4	98	143	103
50	Africa	4	98	129	87
52	Marine Ecology	1	96	160	33
53	DNA	3	93	66	105
54	Geology	1	80	1734	810
54	Geobiology	1	80	688	420
56	Entomology	5	74	396	589
57	Algae	3	69	171	226
57	Seaweed	3	69	135	200
59	Microbiology	6	63	1062	3862
60	Electrochemistry	2	62	1458	1186
61	Aquaculture	4	54	194	353
62	Chemistry	2	53	9160	10277
62	Fishery management	3	53	270	403
64	Diagnostic Imaging	2	48	302	584
64	Flow cytometry	2	48	185	304
66	Oceanography	2	46	819	1131
67	Chemical Engineering	1	42	3525	3152
67	Green Chemistry	1	42	1614	1870
67	Sustainable Engineering	1	42	2043	1980
67	Animal Behavior	3	42	256	677
67	Ethology	3	42	211	549
72	Geography	3	39	798	1904
73	Ornithology	5	38	94	255
73	Birds	5	38	126	332
75	Photonics	1	36	2746	2876
75	Optical materials	1	36	5645	7846
75	freshwater biology	2	36	329	554
78	Hydrology	1	29	2444	3132
79	Animal Nutrition	3	14	145	546
80	Geomorphology	1	13	551	996
81	Cytology	1	12	5693	10295
81	Electron Microscopy	1	12	83	262
83	Aquatic ecology	1	10	567	1201
84	Primates	1	9	696	1129
85	Biochemistry	1	5	11293	19780
85	Bioengineering	1	5	2220	5285
85	Technology	1	5	3218	7089
85	Microscopy	1	5	832	1879
89	Climatology	1	4	1111	2507
89	Geochemical Modeling	1	4	346	845
89	geological modeling	1	4	371	889
92	Restoration Ecology	1	3	320	837
93	Planets	1	1	3031	6585

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