Ecology

Rank	Journal	Average citations
1	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	27.667
2	Landscape and Urban Planning	18.590
3	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	18.095
4	Global Change Biology	18.069
5	ISME Journal	16.617
6	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	13.889
7	Ecological Monographs	12.968
8	Ecology Letters	12.598
9	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	12.416
10	Ecological Economics	12.279
11	Ecological Informatics	11.390
12	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	11.221
13	Global Ecology and Biogeography	10.507
14	Molecular Ecology Resources	9.168
15	Ecological Applications	9.158
16	Landscape Ecology	9.010
17	Ecography	8.583
18	Ecological Engineering	8.206
19	Biological Conservation	7.906
20	Functional Ecology	7.893
21	Molecular Ecology	7.882
22	Journal of Applied Ecology	7.834
23	Journal of Ecology	7.783
24	Microbial Ecology	7.617
25	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	7.383
26	Neobiota	7.258
27	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment	7.115
28	Basic and Applied Ecology	6.919
29	Fire Ecology	6.867
30	Heredity	6.625
31	Biogeosciences	6.617
32	Diversity and Distributions	6.537
33	Ecology	6.406
34	Conservation Biology	6.365
35	Ecological Complexity	6.208
36	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	5.873
37	Ecological Modelling	5.784
38	Mammal Review	5.783
39	Ecosystems	5.770
40	European Journal of Soil Biology	5.514
41	Wildlife Biology	5.500
42	Journal of Animal Ecology	5.432
43	American Naturalist	5.371
44	Oikos	5.222
45	Journal of Arid Environments	5.079
46	Journal of Biogeography	4.978
47	Biodiversity and Conservation	4.951
48	AoB Plants	4.868
49	Evolution	4.694
50	Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics	4.671

51	Behavioral Ecology	4.546
52	Rangeland Ecology & Management	4.448
53	Ecology and Society	4.383
54	Restoration Ecology	4.382
55	Applied Vegetation Science	4.368
56	Ecotoxicology	4.335
57	Journal of Biological Dynamics	4.333
58	Fungal Ecology	4.223
59	Biological Invasions	4.218
60	Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology	4.183
61	Oecologia	4.142
62	Marine Ecology Progress Series	4.136
63	Journal for Nature Conservation	4.131
64	Journal of Vegetation Science	4.125
65	Freshwater Biology	4.005
66	Diversity-Basel	3.985
67	Urban Ecosystems	3.978
68	Animal Conservation	3.834
69	Paleobiology	3.804
70	Ecological Management & Restoration	3.788
71	Aquatic Invasions	3.673
72	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	3.644
73	Chemistry and Ecology	3.599
74	Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology	3.511
75	Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology	3.509
76	Ecohydrology	3.504
77	Polar Research	3.384
78	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	3.376
79	Journal of Chemical Ecology	3.266
80	Evolutionary Ecology	3.183
81	Pedobiologia	3.180
82	Tropical Ecology	3.164
83	Wetlands	3.130
84	Landscape and Ecological Engineering	3.092
85	Flora	3.082
86	Biotropica	2.933
87	Plant Ecology	2.912
88	Aquatic Ecology	2.904
89	Polar Science	2.846
90	Ecological Research	2.834
91	Aquatic Microbial Ecology	2.833
92	Wildlife Research	2.809
93	Theoretical Population Biology	2.750
94	Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology	2.739
95	European Journal of Wildlife Research	2.721
96	Environmental Biology of Fishes	2.669
97	Polar Biology	2.594
98	Austral Ecology	2.530
99	African Journal of Range & Forage Science	2.478
100	Journal of Wildlife Management	2.454
101	Rangeland Journal	2.297
102	Ecoscience	2.228
103	Journal of Tropical Ecology	2.206
104	Polar Record	2.130
105	Chemoecology	2.092
106	Theoretical Ecology	2.030
107	African Journal of Ecology	2.021
108	Marine Biology Research	2.000
109	American Midland Naturalist	1.983
110	Journal of Freshwater Ecology	1.955
111	Oryx	1.725
112	Phytocoenologia	1.722
113	Community Ecology	1.670
114	Acta Amazonica	1.610
115	Population Ecology	1.534
116	Russian Journal of Ecology	1.385
117	Biology Letters	1.359
118	Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management	1.197
119	Journal of Natural History	1.134
120	Plant Species Biology	1.071
121	Southeastern Naturalist	1.038
122	Contemporary Problems of Ecology	0.987
123	Western North American Naturalist	0.949
124	Northeastern Naturalist	0.923
125	Compost Science & Utilization	0.833
126	Natural Areas Journal	0.785
127	Applied Ecology and Environmental Research	0.775
128	Ecological Restoration	0.628
129	New Zealand Journal of Ecology	0.626
130	Polish Journal of Ecology	0.542
131	Southwestern Naturalist	0.446
132	Northwest Science	0.353