| # | Journal | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Nature | 23 | 19,623 | 136 | 377 |
| 2 | New Phytologist | 57 | 9,959 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 28 | 8,500 | 137 | 94 |
| 4 | Science | 19 | 8,351 | 136 | 534 |
| 5 | Global Change Biology | 54 | 8,081 | 6 | 12 |
| 6 | Ecology | 39 | 6,953 | 4 | 11 |
| 7 | Ecology Letters | 32 | 6,711 | 1 | 16 |
| 8 | Australian Journal of Botany | 2 | 5,889 | 220 | 6 |
| 9 | Journal of Ecology | 25 | 5,825 | 9 | 1 |
| 10 | Oecologia | 33 | 5,479 | 4 | 2 |
| 11 | Functional Ecology | 33 | 4,849 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 17 | 3,064 | 14 | 6 |
| 13 | Ecological Monographs | 11 | 2,833 | 3 | 18 |
| 14 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 13 | 2,154 | 3 | 1 |
| 15 | Nature Communications | 7 | 1,873 | 2.3K | 910 |
| 16 | Tree Physiology | 21 | 1,814 | 16 | 8 |
| 17 | Nature Climate Change | 8 | 1,160 | 68 | 385 |
| 18 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 6 | 886 | 518 | 290 |
| 19 | American Naturalist | 4 | 882 | 349 | 160 |
| 20 | Ecosystems | 10 | 879 | 28 | 65 |
| 21 | Canadian Journal of Forest Research | 13 | 731 | 38 | 39 |
| 22 | Plant, Cell and Environment | 8 | 710 | 147 | 222 |
| 23 | Biological Invasions | 8 | 610 | 59 | 49 |
| 24 | Functional Plant Biology | 3 | 604 | 274 | 64 |
| 25 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 6 | 524 | 37 | 313 |
| 26 | Ecological Applications | 5 | 505 | 50 | 51 |
| 26 | Journal of Vegetation Science | 5 | 505 | 233 | 112 |
| 28 | Biogeosciences | 5 | 472 | 642 | 429 |
| 29 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 5 | 471 | 189 | 1.1K |
| 30 | Plant Ecology | 5 | 461 | 57 | 13 |
| 31 | Science Advances | 4 | 433 | 339 | 1.5K |
| 32 | ISME Journal | 3 | 430 | 813 | 990 |
| 33 | Trees - Structure and Function | 12 | 428 | 13 | 31 |
| 34 | American Journal of Botany | 6 | 426 | 327 | 269 |
| 35 | Canadian Journal of Botany | 4 | 424 | 77 | 23 |
| 36 | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 7 | 379 | 419 | 799 |
| 37 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 1 | 366 | 73 | 265 |
| 38 | Biogeochemistry | 5 | 329 | 178 | 294 |
| 39 | Nature Geoscience | 2 | 296 | 948 | 1.8K |
| 40 | Plant and Soil | 6 | 294 | 457 | 774 |
| 41 | Forest Ecology and Management | 9 | 261 | 384 | 961 |
| 42 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 3 | 260 | 490 | 1.4K |
| 43 | Ecography | 4 | 243 | 249 | 402 |
| 44 | Environmental Microbiology | 1 | 242 | 3.7K | 1.4K |
| 44 | Plants People Planet | 1 | 242 | 94 | 12 |
| 46 | Annals of Botany | 7 | 233 | 122 | 655 |
| 46 | Remote Sensing of Environment | 3 | 233 | 1.5K | 2.2K |
| 48 | Physiologia Plantarum | 8 | 226 | 122 | 461 |
| 49 | Ambio | 1 | 203 | 1.1K | 399 |
| 49 | Geoscientific Model Development | 2 | 203 | 1.3K | 1.2K |
| 51 | Plant Physiology | 1 | 201 | 7.9K | 5.2K |
| 52 | Oikos | 4 | 199 | 458 | 905 |
| 53 | Science of the Total Environment | 1 | 177 | 28.4K | 9.3K |
| 54 | Environmental Pollution Series A, Ecological and Biological | 3 | 176 | 1 | 2 |
| 55 | Ecology and Evolution | 4 | 155 | 419 | 753 |
| 56 | Biological Conservation | 2 | 154 | 1.8K | 2.3K |
| 57 | Ecoscience | 3 | 151 | 58 | 78 |
| 58 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2 | 141 | 4.8K | 6.0K |
| 59 | Basic and Applied Ecology | 1 | 140 | 626 | 273 |
| 60 | Advances in Ecological Research | 3 | 134 | 43 | 228 |
| 61 | ELife | 2 | 133 | 3.4K | 7.0K |
| 62 | Scientific Reports | 3 | 131 | 26.2K | 29.2K |
| 63 | PLoS ONE | 2 | 125 | 49.2K | 60.0K |
| 64 | Conservation Biology | 2 | 123 | 993 | 1.8K |
| 65 | Restoration Ecology | 4 | 121 | 143 | 355 |
| 65 | National Science Review | 1 | 121 | 617 | 599 |
| 67 | Diversity and Distributions | 2 | 115 | 577 | 962 |
| 68 | American Midland Naturalist | 2 | 113 | 76 | 35 |
| 68 | Environmental and Experimental Botany | 1 | 113 | 1.5K | 862 |
| 70 | Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences | 3 | 110 | 440 | 596 |
| 71 | Microbial Ecology | 3 | 108 | 334 | 986 |
| 72 | Journal of Plant Ecology | 3 | 102 | 60 | 74 |
| 73 | Pedobiologia | 2 | 97 | 121 | 124 |
| 74 | Silva Fennica | 2 | 96 | 110 | 80 |
| 75 | Molecular Ecology | 1 | 95 | 4.9K | 4.2K |
| 76 | Journal of Environmental Quality | 2 | 91 | 752 | 947 |
| 77 | Ecology and Society | 1 | 88 | 794 | 816 |
| 78 | Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research | 2 | 87 | 251 | 177 |
| 78 | Annals of Forest Science | 2 | 87 | 426 | 373 |
| 80 | Frontiers in Plant Science | 2 | 84 | 5.7K | 7.1K |
| 81 | Environmental Reviews | 1 | 68 | 125 | 214 |
| 82 | Nature Sustainability | 1 | 67 | 400 | 1.8K |
| 83 | Soil Science Society of America Journal | 1 | 65 | 1.6K | 1.4K |
| 84 | Mycorrhiza | 2 | 64 | 302 | 490 |
| 85 | Biotropica | 1 | 63 | 1.1K | 717 |
| 86 | Journal of Plant Research | 1 | 57 | 470 | 397 |
| 87 | Geophysical Research Letters | 1 | 54 | 16.5K | 16.1K |
| 88 | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2 | 53 | 1.0K | 3.8K |
| 89 | Nature Plants | 1 | 51 | 944 | 3.5K |
| 90 | Agronomy Journal | 1 | 50 | 1.5K | 1.0K |
| 90 | Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics | 1 | 50 | 281 | 463 |
| 92 | Environmental Research Letters | 2 | 49 | 1.9K | 4.7K |
| 92 | Landscape Ecology | 1 | 49 | 1.3K | 1.8K |
| 94 | Sustainability | 1 | 48 | 22.6K | 10.9K |
| 94 | Water, Air, and Soil Pollution | 3 | 48 | 584 | 2.0K |
| 96 | BMC Microbiology | 1 | 47 | 1.6K | 2.9K |
| 97 | Forest Science | 1 | 43 | 241 | 112 |
| 98 | Advanced Science | 1 | 42 | 3.4K | 6.6K |
| 99 | Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association | 1 | 41 | 13 | 15 |
| 100 | Journal of Biogeography | 1 | 40 | 2.5K | 3.9K |
| 101 | Ecosphere | 3 | 38 | 346 | 2.1K |
| 102 | International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation | 1 | 37 | 1.1K | 1.8K |
| 103 | Forests | 2 | 31 | 2.0K | 2.7K |
| 104 | Journal of Forest Research | 1 | 30 | 310 | 284 |
| 104 | Natural Areas Journal | 1 | 30 | 58 | 64 |
| 106 | Mycologia | 1 | 28 | 1.1K | 1.2K |
| 107 | Environmental Science & Technology | 1 | 24 | 14.7K | 26.6K |
| 108 | Environment International | 1 | 20 | 4.6K | 11.0K |
| 108 | Bryologist | 1 | 20 | 227 | 232 |
| 110 | Journal of Sustainable Forestry | 1 | 17 | 147 | 186 |
| 110 | Applied Vegetation Science | 1 | 17 | 623 | 1.2K |
| 110 | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2 | 17 | 1.1K | 5.5K |
| 113 | Acta Oecologica | 2 | 12 | 204 | 1.9K |
| 114 | Journal of Experimental Botany | 1 | 11 | 5.4K | 13.2K |
| 115 | Environmental Microbiology Reports | 1 | 8 | 550 | 2.5K |
| 116 | BioScience | 1 | 3 | 1.1K | 4.6K |
| 116 | Invasive Plant Science and Management | 1 | 3 | 129 | 444 |
| 118 | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 1 | 2 | 1.4K | 3.5K |
| 118 | Ecological Studies | 1 | 2 | 236 | 934 |
| 118 | Global Change - the IGBP Series | 1 | 2 | 8 | 35 |
| 121 | Pedosphere | 1 | 1 | 278 | 1.4K |
