| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Nature | 9 | 8,998 | 1.3K | 369 |
| 2 | Science | 12 | 5,276 | 849 | 558 |
| 3 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 31 | 4,584 | 463 | 408 |
| 4 | Ecology | 49 | 2,945 | 12 | 35 |
| 5 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 13 | 2,924 | 35 | 6 |
| 6 | Ecology Letters | 19 | 1,740 | 23 | 50 |
| 7 | Global Change Biology | 15 | 1,596 | 56 | 97 |
| 8 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 38 | 1,546 | 30 | 77 |
| 9 | PLoS ONE | 39 | 1,315 | 712 | 872 |
| 10 | Functional Ecology | 12 | 1,314 | 26 | 17 |
| 11 | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 12 | 1,093 | 82 | 27 |
| 12 | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 9 | 1,058 | 133 | 78 |
| 13 | Limnology and Oceanography | 13 | 938 | 39 | 61 |
| 14 | Conservation Biology | 6 | 799 | 86 | 59 |
| 15 | Journal of Animal Ecology | 21 | 752 | 10 | 34 |
| 16 | New Phytologist | 9 | 717 | 164 | 170 |
| 17 | Environmental Management | 7 | 696 | 17 | 12 |
| 18 | Oecologia | 24 | 690 | 45 | 126 |
| 19 | Freshwater Biology | 28 | 654 | 4 | 29 |
| 20 | Journal of Ecology | 17 | 633 | 12 | 61 |
| 21 | Journal of the North American Benthological Society | 11 | 628 | 2 | 4 |
| 22 | ISME Journal | 5 | 604 | 112 | 146 |
| 23 | Scientific Reports | 16 | 577 | 1.7K | 1.3K |
| 24 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 3 | 532 | 148 | 170 |
| 25 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 13 | 529 | 49 | 156 |
| 26 | Nature Communications | 6 | 502 | 2.2K | 2.5K |
| 27 | Ecological Applications | 12 | 486 | 13 | 24 |
| 28 | Ecosystems | 9 | 470 | 21 | 44 |
| 29 | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 9 | 413 | 14 | 20 |
| 30 | Biological Conservation | 6 | 406 | 111 | 123 |
| 31 | Molecular Ecology | 9 | 403 | 141 | 227 |
| 32 | Journal of Biogeography | 3 | 402 | 172 | 69 |
| 33 | Population Ecology | 2 | 400 | 28 | 2 |
| 34 | Royal Society Open Science | 9 | 397 | 23 | 10 |
| 35 | Ecosphere | 19 | 382 | 9 | 30 |
| 36 | Trends in Parasitology | 4 | 379 | 53 | 43 |
| 37 | Ecology and Evolution | 20 | 374 | 28 | 71 |
| 38 | Journal of the Royal Society Interface | 15 | 370 | 16 | 86 |
| 39 | Water Resources Research | 4 | 347 | 283 | 183 |
| 40 | Biology Letters | 13 | 334 | 18 | 49 |
| 41 | Biological Invasions | 13 | 333 | 12 | 29 |
| 42 | PLoS Computational Biology | 7 | 322 | 170 | 253 |
| 43 | EcoHealth | 5 | 318 | 13 | 8 |
| 44 | Diversity and Distributions | 3 | 293 | 69 | 55 |
| 45 | Biogeochemistry | 4 | 260 | 68 | 69 |
| 46 | Hydrobiologia | 12 | 246 | 79 | 130 |
| 47 | Nature Geoscience | 2 | 240 | 147 | 248 |
| 48 | Oikos | 8 | 235 | 3 | 11 |
| 49 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 4 | 232 | 45 | 150 |
| 49 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 1 | 232 | 49 | 88 |
| 51 | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 1 | 227 | 3.2K | 700 |
| 52 | Fungal Ecology | 1 | 224 | 74 | 14 |
| 53 | Coral Reefs | 10 | 212 | 16 | 43 |
| 54 | MBio | 1 | 204 | 945 | 370 |
| 55 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 5 | 202 | 542 | 947 |
| 56 | American Naturalist | 5 | 201 | 70 | 132 |
| 57 | Biological Reviews | 3 | 198 | 56 | 231 |
| 57 | Theoretical Ecology | 9 | 198 | 3 | 5 |
| 59 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 4 | 195 | 74 | 158 |
| 60 | Ecography | 3 | 187 | 17 | 16 |
| 61 | Journal of Hydrology | 2 | 179 | 666 | 464 |
| 62 | Geoderma | 2 | 174 | 227 | 144 |
| 63 | Freshwater Science | 6 | 173 | 2 | 8 |
| 64 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 4 | 167 | 56 | 143 |
| 65 | PLoS Biology | 5 | 155 | 129 | 813 |
| 66 | Ecological Modelling | 12 | 152 | 10 | 129 |
| 67 | Applied Soil Ecology | 5 | 151 | 26 | 71 |
| 68 | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 1 | 149 | 33 | 65 |
| 69 | Microbial Ecology | 3 | 140 | 119 | 170 |
| 70 | Restoration Ecology | 4 | 136 | 42 | 74 |
| 71 | Marine Biology | 4 | 131 | 180 | 235 |
| 72 | Frontiers in Zoology | 1 | 124 | 77 | 34 |
| 73 | Water (Switzerland) | 2 | 118 | 1.1K | 263 |
| 74 | Mammal Review | 1 | 114 | 34 | 32 |
| 75 | International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife | 4 | 109 | 14 | 10 |
| 76 | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 6 | 106 | 86 | 206 |
| 77 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 4 | 105 | 85 | 296 |
| 78 | Ecological Entomology | 5 | 104 | 44 | 93 |
| 79 | Epidemics | 2 | 103 | 42 | 29 |
| 80 | BioEssays | 1 | 98 | 387 | 379 |
| 81 | Journal of Phycology | 2 | 96 | 184 | 180 |
| 82 | Journal of Wildlife Diseases | 5 | 93 | 77 | 98 |
| 82 | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 3 | 93 | 322 | 310 |
| 82 | Insect Conservation and Diversity | 4 | 93 | 10 | 26 |
| 85 | American Journal of Botany | 3 | 91 | 327 | 341 |
| 85 | Forest Ecology and Management | 4 | 91 | 161 | 321 |
| 85 | Landscape and Urban Planning | 3 | 91 | 69 | 244 |
| 88 | Biotropica | 9 | 89 | 14 | 75 |
| 89 | Molecular Ecology Resources | 2 | 87 | 166 | 203 |
| 90 | Transactions of the American Fisheries Society | 3 | 86 | 90 | 106 |
| 90 | GCB Bioenergy | 3 | 86 | 25 | 59 |
| 92 | Annals of the Entomological Society of America | 5 | 84 | 43 | 64 |
| 93 | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2 | 81 | 429 | 507 |
| 93 | PLoS Genetics | 1 | 81 | 1.5K | 1.9K |
| 95 | PLoS Pathogens | 1 | 79 | 1.3K | 1.5K |
| 96 | Science Translational Medicine | 2 | 78 | 525 | 1.6K |
| 97 | Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences | 1 | 77 | 100 | 72 |
| 98 | Evolutionary Applications | 3 | 76 | 56 | 128 |
| 99 | ELife | 2 | 72 | 1.2K | 1.9K |
| 100 | Parasites and Vectors | 4 | 71 | 242 | 432 |
| 100 | PeerJ | 6 | 71 | 146 | 446 |
| 102 | Science of the Total Environment | 4 | 70 | 1.4K | 3.2K |
| 102 | Ecological Indicators | 5 | 70 | 91 | 472 |
| 104 | Animal Behaviour | 5 | 69 | 229 | 601 |
| 104 | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 3 | 69 | 66 | 80 |
| 104 | Pedobiologia | 2 | 69 | 29 | 33 |
| 107 | Insects | 6 | 67 | 38 | 68 |
| 108 | Estuaries and Coasts | 2 | 66 | 64 | 61 |
| 108 | River Research and Applications | 4 | 66 | 37 | 95 |
| 110 | Environmental Pollution | 3 | 64 | 584 | 1.5K |
| 110 | Biodiversity and Conservation | 3 | 64 | 100 | 245 |
| 112 | International Journal for Parasitology | 3 | 62 | 201 | 445 |
| 113 | Annual Review of Marine Science | 1 | 61 | 22 | 66 |
| 114 | Biofuels | 1 | 60 | 99 | 29 |
| 115 | Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management | 1 | 59 | 55 | 47 |
| 116 | Environmental Microbiology | 1 | 56 | 589 | 744 |
| 116 | American Journal of Primatology | 3 | 56 | 163 | 306 |
| 118 | BMC Bioinformatics | 1 | 55 | 1.3K | 945 |
| 118 | Ecological Monographs | 2 | 55 | 61 | 202 |
| 120 | Epidemiology and Infection | 1 | 54 | 579 | 417 |
| 120 | Landscape Ecology | 3 | 54 | 85 | 274 |
| 122 | Journal of Comparative Psychology (Washington, D C: 1983) | 1 | 53 | 135 | 127 |
| 122 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 53 | 303 | 561 |
| 124 | Tree Physiology | 1 | 52 | 194 | 190 |
| 124 | Movement Ecology | 2 | 52 | 16 | 34 |
| 124 | Food Webs | 2 | 52 | 6 | 3 |
| 127 | Nonlinear Dynamics | 1 | 51 | 1.1K | 869 |
| 128 | Parasite Immunology | 1 | 49 | 229 | 191 |
| 129 | Parasitology | 2 | 46 | 359 | 533 |
| 130 | Malaria Journal | 1 | 45 | 617 | 525 |
| 130 | Advances in Marine Biology | 1 | 45 | 17 | 51 |
| 132 | Environmental Epigenetics | 3 | 39 | 43 | 95 |
| 133 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 1 | 38 | 1.2K | 1.2K |
| 133 | BioScience | 2 | 38 | 87 | 130 |
| 135 | Journal of Applied Entomology | 1 | 36 | 113 | 89 |
| 135 | Primates | 1 | 36 | 203 | 181 |
| 137 | Regional Environmental Change | 2 | 35 | 59 | 198 |
| 138 | Environmental Science & Technology | 3 | 34 | 939 | 2.7K |
| 138 | General and Comparative Endocrinology | 1 | 34 | 622 | 633 |
| 140 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2 | 33 | 232 | 627 |
| 141 | Limnology and Oceanography: Methods | 2 | 32 | 38 | 122 |
| 142 | Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society | 1 | 31 | 25 | 8 |
| 143 | Plant Ecology | 5 | 29 | 36 | 290 |
| 143 | Scientific Data | 1 | 29 | 375 | 763 |
| 143 | Journal of Vector Ecology | 2 | 29 | 40 | 84 |
| 143 | International Journal of Zoology | 2 | 29 | 3 | 5 |
| 147 | Journal of Arid Environments | 1 | 28 | 221 | 338 |
| 147 | Journal of Tropical Pediatrics | 1 | 28 | 240 | 158 |
| 147 | F1000Research | 1 | 28 | 799 | 538 |
| 150 | Plant and Soil | 2 | 27 | 433 | 945 |
| 150 | Frontiers in Marine Science | 1 | 27 | 477 | 458 |
| 150 | Fisheries | 1 | 27 | 48 | 80 |
| 150 | Limnology and Oceanography Letters | 2 | 27 | 8 | 30 |
| 154 | Journal of Virology | 1 | 26 | 2.1K | 3.1K |
| 154 | Avian Diseases | 1 | 26 | 156 | 122 |
| 154 | Environmental Biology of Fishes | 3 | 26 | 108 | 270 |
| 154 | Forests | 5 | 26 | 101 | 354 |
| 154 | Animal Migration | 4 | 26 | 1 | 4 |
| 159 | Frontiers in Immunology | 1 | 24 | 3.4K | 4.3K |
| 159 | Journal of Wildlife Management | 3 | 24 | 53 | 176 |
| 159 | JAMA Pediatrics | 1 | 24 | 524 | 1.0K |
| 159 | Ecosystem Services | 1 | 24 | 79 | 189 |
| 163 | Journal of Experimental Biology | 1 | 21 | 1.0K | 1.5K |
| 163 | Agroforestry Systems | 1 | 21 | 122 | 186 |
| 163 | Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems | 1 | 21 | 154 | 205 |
| 163 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 21 | 194 | 378 |
| 167 | Journal of Invertebrate Pathology | 2 | 20 | 133 | 357 |
| 167 | Frontiers in Veterinary Science | 1 | 20 | 445 | 394 |
| 167 | Diversity | 2 | 20 | 139 | 174 |
| 167 | Environmental Challenges and Solutions | 7 | 20 | 1 | 1 |
| 171 | Canadian Journal of Zoology | 1 | 19 | 134 | 159 |
| 171 | Marine Environmental Research | 3 | 19 | 65 | 353 |
| 171 | Journal of Tropical Ecology | 3 | 19 | 45 | 212 |
| 171 | Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences | 1 | 19 | 226 | 400 |
| 171 | CBE Life Sciences Education | 1 | 19 | 191 | 315 |
| 171 | Journal of Arachnology | 3 | 19 | 14 | 56 |
| 177 | Remote Sensing | 1 | 18 | 1.6K | 1.9K |
| 177 | Parasitology Research | 4 | 18 | 279 | 1.2K |
| 177 | Canadian Journal of Forest Research | 2 | 18 | 69 | 161 |
| 177 | Biology and Fertility of Soils | 1 | 18 | 182 | 352 |
| 177 | Wetlands | 1 | 18 | 169 | 278 |
| 177 | Environmental and Ecological Statistics | 1 | 18 | 49 | 74 |
| 177 | Journal of Mammalogy | 2 | 18 | 258 | 487 |
| 184 | Veterinary Microbiology | 1 | 16 | 450 | 758 |
| 184 | Land Use Policy | 1 | 16 | 364 | 806 |
| 184 | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 4 | 16 | 16 | 73 |
| 187 | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2 | 15 | 157 | 557 |
| 187 | Zoologica Scripta | 1 | 15 | 67 | 132 |
| 187 | Evolutionary Ecology | 1 | 15 | 176 | 293 |
| 187 | Marine Biodiversity | 1 | 15 | 59 | 57 |
| 187 | BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality | 1 | 15 | 3 | 10 |
| 187 | Journal of Insects | 1 | 15 | 1 | 4 |
| 193 | Journal of Heredity | 2 | 14 | 74 | 281 |
| 193 | Journal of Environmental Quality | 1 | 14 | 298 | 610 |
| 193 | Transboundary and Emerging Diseases | 1 | 14 | 260 | 425 |
| 193 | Zoonoses and Public Health | 1 | 14 | 124 | 277 |
| 193 | Land Degradation and Development | 2 | 14 | 100 | 454 |
| 193 | Journal of Field Ornithology | 1 | 14 | 57 | 82 |
| 193 | Oceans | 2 | 14 | 1 | 1 |
| 200 | Mammalia | 1 | 13 | 64 | 60 |
| 200 | Frontiers in Public Health | 1 | 13 | 1.1K | 1.7K |
| 200 | Australasian Plant Pathology | 1 | 13 | 81 | 114 |
| 200 | Mycoscience | 1 | 13 | 118 | 113 |
| 200 | Journal of Ornithology | 1 | 13 | 155 | 201 |
| 200 | Aquatic Ecology | 1 | 13 | 83 | 165 |
| 200 | NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security | 1 | 13 | 26 | 7 |
| 200 | Revista De Biologia Tropical | 1 | 13 | 25 | 21 |
| 208 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1 | 12 | 321 | 561 |
| 208 | Physiological Entomology | 2 | 12 | 50 | 188 |
| 208 | Journal of Freshwater Ecology | 1 | 12 | 98 | 107 |
| 208 | Ecological Complexity | 1 | 12 | 49 | 146 |
| 208 | Emerging Topics in Life Sciences | 2 | 12 | 3 | 67 |
| 213 | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 1 | 11 | 336 | 813 |
| 213 | Hydrological Processes | 2 | 11 | 354 | 948 |
| 213 | Plant, Cell and Environment | 1 | 11 | 410 | 889 |
| 213 | JAMA Network Open | 1 | 11 | 1.3K | 2.7K |
| 213 | Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics | 1 | 11 | 50 | 97 |
| 213 | Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease | 1 | 11 | 165 | 222 |
| 213 | Soil Systems | 1 | 11 | 23 | 65 |
| 220 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 1 | 10 | 3.0K | 5.1K |
| 220 | Harmful Algae | 1 | 10 | 105 | 281 |
| 220 | Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society | 2 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| 223 | Zootaxa | 4 | 9 | 351 | 708 |
| 223 | Veterinary Parasitology | 1 | 9 | 516 | 918 |
| 223 | Journal of Herpetology | 1 | 9 | 90 | 116 |
| 223 | Behavioral Ecology | 1 | 9 | 198 | 384 |
| 223 | Experimental and Applied Acarology | 1 | 9 | 188 | 376 |
| 223 | Ecotoxicology | 1 | 9 | 186 | 512 |
| 223 | Comparative Clinical Pathology | 3 | 9 | 118 | 195 |
| 223 | Conservation Letters | 1 | 9 | 96 | 271 |
| 223 | Aging | 1 | 9 | 903 | 1.9K |
| 223 | Integrative Organismal Biology | 1 | 9 | 23 | 32 |
| 233 | Water Research | 1 | 8 | 1.3K | 2.8K |
| 233 | Environmental Health Perspectives | 1 | 8 | 693 | 1.8K |
| 233 | Biology of Reproduction | 1 | 8 | 879 | 1.7K |
| 233 | Comparative Parasitology | 2 | 8 | 17 | 47 |
| 233 | Eurosurveillance | 1 | 8 | 268 | 587 |
| 233 | Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management | 3 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 239 | BMJ Open | 1 | 7 | 3.5K | 5.8K |
| 239 | BMC Infectious Diseases | 1 | 7 | 1.4K | 3.0K |
| 239 | Catena | 1 | 7 | 431 | 954 |
| 239 | Journal of Insect Conservation | 1 | 7 | 100 | 230 |
| 239 | Wildlife Society Bulletin | 2 | 7 | 29 | 97 |
| 239 | Social Sciences | 1 | 7 | 190 | 332 |
| 239 | Herpetologica | 1 | 7 | 56 | 113 |
| 239 | Journal of Insect Science | 1 | 7 | 13 | 63 |
| 247 | International Journal of Radiation Biology | 2 | 6 | 187 | 970 |
| 247 | Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics | 1 | 6 | 461 | 1.1K |
| 247 | Systematic Parasitology | 1 | 6 | 133 | 197 |
| 247 | Southeastern Naturalist | 2 | 6 | 21 | 41 |
| 247 | ISRN Zoology | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 247 | ISRN Parasitology | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 |
| 253 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 1 | 5 | 342 | 715 |
| 253 | Microorganisms | 1 | 5 | 1.1K | 2.2K |
| 253 | Journal of Insect Behavior | 2 | 5 | 61 | 275 |
| 253 | Lake and Reservoir Management | 1 | 5 | 55 | 143 |
| 253 | Chelonian Conservation and Biology | 1 | 5 | 24 | 58 |
| 253 | Journal of Urban Ecology | 1 | 5 | 8 | 31 |
| 259 | Heredity | 1 | 4 | 402 | 879 |
| 259 | Society and Natural Resources | 1 | 4 | 141 | 429 |
| 259 | Microbes and Environments | 1 | 4 | 126 | 316 |
| 262 | Energy Policy | 1 | 3 | 740 | 1.9K |
| 262 | Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | 1 | 3 | 629 | 1.3K |
| 262 | Polar Biology | 1 | 3 | 223 | 500 |
| 262 | Resources, Conservation and Recycling | 1 | 3 | 418 | 1.3K |
| 262 | Journal of Mathematical Biology | 1 | 3 | 320 | 726 |
| 262 | Microbiology Resource Announcements | 1 | 3 | 454 | 548 |
| 262 | Nature Sustainability | 1 | 3 | 109 | 514 |
| 262 | Vaccine | 1 | 3 | 1.7K | 3.6K |
| 270 | Southwestern Naturalist | 2 | 2 | 34 | 90 |
| 270 | Theoretical Population Biology | 1 | 2 | 194 | 464 |
| 270 | Ecology of Freshwater Fish | 1 | 2 | 85 | 221 |
| 270 | Anthrozoos | 1 | 2 | 103 | 329 |
| 270 | Education Sciences | 1 | 2 | 237 | 723 |
| 270 | Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems | 1 | 2 | 19 | 124 |
| 270 | Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies | 1 | 2 | 69 | 264 |
| 270 | Helia | 1 | 2 | 18 | 32 |
| 270 | Advances in Agroforestry | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 270 | Chemosphere | 1 | 2 | 2.9K | 6.0K |
| 280 | Quarterly Review of Biology | 5 | 1 | 3 | 71 |
| 280 | Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis | 1 | 1 | 352 | 793 |
| 280 | Biological Bulletin | 2 | 1 | 79 | 432 |
| 280 | Genetics | 1 | 1 | 989 | 2.1K |
| 280 | Entomologia Experimentalis Et Applicata | 1 | 1 | 219 | 584 |
| 280 | Ecological Economics | 1 | 1 | 340 | 991 |
| 280 | Environmental Modelling and Software | 1 | 1 | 242 | 850 |
| 280 | IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems | 1 | 1 | 866 | 1.8K |
| 280 | Conservation Genetics Resources | 1 | 1 | 157 | 360 |
| 280 | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | 1 | 1 | 67 | 148 |
| 280 | Journal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland) | 2 | 1 | 216 | 1.3K |
| 280 | Journal of Aquatic Animal Health | 1 | 1 | 65 | 191 |
| 280 | Journal of Entomological Science | 2 | 1 | 13 | 59 |
| 280 | Evolution, Medicine and Public Health | 1 | 1 | 59 | 172 |
| 294 | FASEB Journal | 1 | 0 | 4.1K | 6.1K |
| 294 | Infection, Genetics and Evolution | 1 | 0 | 538 | 1.6K |
| 294 | Journal of Insect Science | 1 | 0 | 127 | 420 |
| 294 | Journal of Shellfish Research | 1 | 0 | 18 | 110 |
| 294 | Biology | 1 | 0 | 606 | 2.2K |
| 294 | Symbiosis | 1 | 0 | 54 | 255 |
| 294 | Geoderma Regional | 1 | 0 | 22 | 138 |
| 294 | Avian Diseases Digest | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
| 294 | Reptiles & Amphibians: Conservation and Natural History | 1 | 0 | 29 | 53 |
| 294 | Fascinating Life Sciences | 1 | 0 | 11 | 53 |
| 294 | Iranian Journal of Parasitology | 1 | 0 | 143 | 346 |
| 294 | Biogeosciences | 1 | 0 | 316 | 771 |
| 294 | Proceedings of IMPRS | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 |
