| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Science | 12 | 1,781 | 491 | 8.1K |
| 2 | Nature | 40 | 1,746 | 18 | 12.5K |
| 3 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 26 | 1,633 | 3 | 187 |
| 4 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 21 | 1,470 | 14 | 95 |
| 5 | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 39 | 1,313 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | Palaeontology | 45 | 1,129 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2 | 843 | 1.6K | 247 |
| 8 | Geology | 9 | 796 | 166 | 229 |
| 9 | Systematic Biology | 6 | 776 | 109 | 154 |
| 10 | Earth-Science Reviews | 10 | 724 | 16 | 158 |
| 11 | Nature Geoscience | 1 | 614 | 2.3K | 628 |
| 12 | Journal of the Geological Society | 13 | 598 | 22 | 49 |
| 13 | Nature Communications | 14 | 548 | 367 | 9.6K |
| 14 | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | 15 | 540 | 33 | 31 |
| 15 | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | 10 | 533 | 11 | 8 |
| 16 | Proceedings of the Geologists Association | 35 | 494 | 2 | 1 |
| 16 | Journal of Systematic Palaeontology | 6 | 494 | 11 | 2 |
| 18 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 6 | 438 | 82 | 618 |
| 19 | Biological Reviews | 3 | 376 | 62 | 404 |
| 20 | Biology Letters | 4 | 371 | 154 | 106 |
| 21 | Gondwana Research | 3 | 289 | 436 | 303 |
| 22 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 5 | 286 | 6.8K | 37.6K |
| 23 | Current Biology | 14 | 285 | 83 | 3.8K |
| 24 | Paleobiology | 9 | 272 | 21 | 86 |
| 25 | PLoS ONE | 7 | 258 | 9.4K | 20.4K |
| 26 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences | 3 | 227 | 3 | 10 |
| 27 | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1 | 224 | 794 | 222 |
| 28 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 7 | 219 | 99 | 277 |
| 28 | Lethaia | 10 | 219 | 13 | 43 |
| 30 | Scientific Reports | 9 | 209 | 1.8K | 12.9K |
| 31 | Historical Biology | 6 | 188 | 38 | 7 |
| 32 | Quarterly Review of Biology | 4 | 178 | 8 | 99 |
| 33 | Acta Palaeontologica Polonica | 6 | 146 | 3 | 10 |
| 34 | Science Advances | 2 | 130 | 2.1K | 9.4K |
| 35 | Science Bulletin | 1 | 128 | 1.1K | 464 |
| 36 | Communication Research | 1 | 126 | 255 | 187 |
| 37 | New Phytologist | 1 | 119 | 7.2K | 6.3K |
| 37 | Geological Journal | 5 | 119 | 84 | 48 |
| 39 | Pediatric Pulmonology | 1 | 116 | 2.0K | 418 |
| 40 | BioEssays | 3 | 112 | 90 | 1.0K |
| 41 | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 4 | 109 | 900 | 2.1K |
| 42 | Palaios | 5 | 105 | 29 | 110 |
| 43 | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 1 | 104 | 3.1K | 2.4K |
| 43 | Sedimentary Geology | 1 | 104 | 1.1K | 606 |
| 45 | Neues Jahrbuch Fur Geologie Und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen | 1 | 102 | 244 | 16 |
| 46 | Geological Society Special Publication | 4 | 97 | 270 | 547 |
| 47 | Geobios | 2 | 95 | 182 | 82 |
| 48 | Cretaceous Research | 4 | 89 | 300 | 329 |
| 49 | Annals of Internal Medicine | 1 | 82 | 2.9K | 5.0K |
| 49 | Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences | 1 | 82 | 617 | 275 |
| 51 | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2 | 80 | 342 | 533 |
| 51 | Acta Biotheoretica | 1 | 80 | 95 | 31 |
| 53 | Oecologia | 2 | 78 | 1.8K | 3.4K |
| 53 | Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 2 | 78 | 51 | 39 |
| 55 | Acta Geologica Sinica | 3 | 76 | 128 | 46 |
| 56 | Journal of Mechanical Design | 5 | 74 | 1 | 2 |
| 57 | Philosophical Transactions Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences | 1 | 73 | 1.6K | 1.7K |
| 58 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2 | 71 | 449 | 4.0K |
| 59 | PLoS Biology | 2 | 70 | 692 | 8.9K |
| 60 | Sedimentology | 3 | 63 | 257 | 817 |
| 61 | Global and Planetary Change | 2 | 62 | 705 | 1.8K |
| 62 | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 2 | 56 | 2.4K | 4.8K |
| 63 | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 2 | 54 | 824 | 1.6K |
| 64 | Animal Behaviour | 1 | 53 | 2.7K | 2.9K |
| 64 | Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences | 1 | 53 | 29 | 44 |
| 66 | Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society | 1 | 48 | 23 | 7 |
| 67 | Journal of Zoology | 3 | 46 | 195 | 892 |
| 67 | PeerJ | 3 | 46 | 855 | 3.5K |
| 69 | Environmental Toxicology | 1 | 44 | 791 | 745 |
| 70 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1 | 41 | 6.2K | 8.3K |
| 71 | Cryobiology | 1 | 37 | 723 | 680 |
| 71 | American Naturalist | 1 | 37 | 1.7K | 3.2K |
| 73 | Journal of Paleontology | 3 | 36 | 232 | 420 |
| 73 | Communications Biology | 3 | 36 | 68 | 3.7K |
| 75 | Zootaxa | 1 | 35 | 5.3K | 2.3K |
| 76 | Journal of South American Earth Sciences | 1 | 34 | 1.4K | 899 |
| 77 | Comptes Rendus De L'Académie Des Sciences Earth & Planetary Sciences Série II, Sciences De La Terre Et Des Planètes = | 1 | 33 | 80 | 7 |
| 78 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 1 | 32 | 3.3K | 5.3K |
| 79 | Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | 3 | 31 | 1.0K | 3.2K |
| 80 | Journal of Anatomy | 1 | 30 | 1.2K | 1.7K |
| 81 | Children's Literature in Education | 5 | 28 | 2 | 12 |
| 82 | Journal of the North American Benthological Society | 1 | 27 | 254 | 552 |
| 82 | Scottish Journal of Geology | 2 | 27 | 33 | 45 |
| 84 | Royal Society Open Science | 3 | 25 | 206 | 3.6K |
| 85 | Geological Magazine | 2 | 23 | 306 | 1.1K |
| 85 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2 | 23 | 732 | 2.6K |
| 87 | Clinica Chimica Acta | 1 | 22 | 2.8K | 4.7K |
| 88 | Anatomical Record | 1 | 21 | 1.1K | 1.4K |
| 89 | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 1 | 20 | 1.0K | 1.6K |
| 89 | Facies | 1 | 20 | 283 | 415 |
| 91 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 1 | 19 | 1.2K | 3.9K |
| 92 | Freshwater Biology | 1 | 18 | 1.8K | 3.4K |
| 93 | Bulletin of Volcanology | 1 | 17 | 820 | 1.3K |
| 94 | Diabetes | 1 | 16 | 5.6K | 12.5K |
| 95 | Journal of Aesthetic Education | 5 | 15 | 2 | 4 |
| 96 | Educational Review | 2 | 12 | 37 | 398 |
| 96 | Palaeoworld | 1 | 12 | 181 | 241 |
| 96 | Papers in Palaeontology | 1 | 12 | 137 | 235 |
| 99 | Journal of Texture Studies | 1 | 11 | 344 | 809 |
| 99 | Paleontological Journal | 4 | 11 | 36 | 91 |
| 101 | Annals of Carnegie Museum | 1 | 10 | 21 | 53 |
| 102 | JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society | 1 | 9 | 1.1K | 2.5K |
| 102 | Auk | 2 | 9 | 515 | 1.6K |
| 102 | American Quarterly | 1 | 9 | 9 | 29 |
| 102 | Palaontologische Zeitschrift | 1 | 9 | 255 | 429 |
| 106 | Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | 1 | 8 | 30 | 56 |
| 106 | Archives of Natural History | 1 | 8 | 37 | 29 |
| 108 | Lancet, The | 1 | 7 | 13.3K | 31.0K |
| 108 | Microbes and Infection | 1 | 7 | 1.0K | 4.0K |
| 108 | British Journal of Educational Studies | 1 | 7 | 110 | 313 |
| 108 | Terra Nova | 1 | 7 | 661 | 2.1K |
| 108 | Boletin De La Sociedad Geologica Mexicana | 1 | 7 | 109 | 171 |
| 113 | Journal of Freshwater Ecology | 1 | 6 | 241 | 606 |
| 113 | Geology Today | 3 | 6 | 23 | 155 |
| 113 | Significance | 1 | 6 | 64 | 124 |
| 116 | New Scientist | 6 | 5 | 6 | 28 |
| 116 | Journal of Clinical Investigation | 1 | 5 | 8.0K | 30.6K |
| 116 | ELife | 1 | 5 | 10.2K | 45.0K |
| 119 | Canadian Journal of Zoology | 1 | 4 | 925 | 2.8K |
| 120 | National Science Review | 2 | 3 | 178 | 3.8K |
| 121 | Water Environment Research | 1 | 2 | 662 | 2.6K |
| 122 | Journal of Earth Science (Wuhan, China) | 1 | 1 | 425 | 1.7K |
| 122 | Journal of Popular Film and Television | 1 | 1 | 11 | 54 |
| 122 | Choice Reviews | 1 | 1 | 15 | 50 |
| 122 | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1 | 1 | 3.0K | 9.3K |
| 126 | BioScience | 1 | 0 | 1.1K | 4.7K |
| 126 | Neuromuscular Disorders | 1 | 0 | 1.3K | 3.8K |
| 126 | Gerontologist, The | 2 | 0 | 437 | 3.2K |
| 126 | Museum International | 1 | 0 | 4 | 63 |
| 126 | Endeavour | 1 | 0 | 27 | 224 |
| 126 | College and Research Libraries | 1 | 0 | 104 | 428 |
| 126 | British Journal of Aesthetics | 1 | 0 | 37 | 93 |
| 126 | Publishing Research Quarterly | 1 | 0 | 60 | 157 |
| 126 | Evolution & Development | 1 | 0 | 328 | 1.2K |
| 126 | The Paleontological Society Special Publications | 2 | 0 | 54 | 91 |
