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Best Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journals
730 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 182 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.
| # | Journal | CiteScore | Percentile | Quartile | WoS | ABDC | OA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annual Review of Entomology | 33.3 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 2 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 26.4 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 3 | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 19.2 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 4 | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 18 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 5 | ISME Journal | 17.9 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 6 | International Journal of Biological Sciences | 17.8 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 7 | Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi | 17.8 | 99th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 8 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 17.4 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 9 | Ecological Monographs | 17.2 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 10 | Current Forestry Reports | 16.2 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 11 | Genome Biology | 14.5 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 12 | Ecological Indicators | 14.3 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 13 | Systematic Biology | 14 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 14 | Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture | 13.5 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 15 | Ecology Letters | 13.3 | 98th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 16 | Ecological Informatics | 13.2 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 17 | Farming System | 12.9 | 97th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 18 | Fish and Fisheries | 12.7 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 19 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 12.7 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 20 | Cladistics | 12.5 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 21 | Molecular Ecology Resources | 12.3 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 22 | Horticultural Plant Journal | 11.8 | 97th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 23 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 11.8 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 24 | Current Research in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery | 11.4 | 96th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 25 | Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation | 11.1 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 26 | Environmental and Experimental Botany | 10.8 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 27 | Botanical Review | 10.6 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 28 | Conservation Letters | 10.6 | 96th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 29 | Aquaculture and Fisheries | 10.4 | 96th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 30 | Plant Diversity | 10.3 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 31 | Conservation Biology | 10.1 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 32 | Journal of Ecology | 10.1 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 33 | Current Opinion in Insect Science | 9.9 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 34 | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 9.9 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 35 | Plant Stress | 9.8 | 95th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 36 | Ecography | 9.7 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 37 | Systematic Entomology | 9.6 | 95th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 38 | Functional Ecology | 9.5 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 39 | Mammal Review | 9.3 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 40 | Microbial Ecology | 9.3 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 41 | Environmental DNA | 9.2 | 94th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 42 | Journal of Pest Science | 9.2 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 43 | Environmental Microbiology | 9 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 44 | Diversity and Distributions | 8.7 | 94th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 45 | Journal of Fungi | 8.7 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 46 | Plant Biology | 8.6 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 47 | Ecosystems | 8.5 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 48 | Marine Life Science and Technology | 8.5 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 49 | Plants | 8.5 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 50 | Forest Ecosystems | 8.3 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 51 | People and Nature | 8.2 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 52 | Fire Ecology | 8.1 | 93rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 53 | Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology | 8.1 | 92nd | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 54 | mSystems | 8.1 | 92nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 55 | Zoological Research | 8 | 92nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 56 | Journal of Plant Interactions | 7.9 | 92nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 57 | BMC Biology | 7.8 | 92nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 58 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 7.8 | 92nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 59 | Molecular Ecology | 7.7 | 92nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 60 | Journal of Systematics and Evolution | 7.7 | 91st | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 61 | Biological Conservation | 7.6 | 91st | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 62 | Fungal Biology and Biotechnology | 7.1 | 91st | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 63 | Life | 7.1 | 91st | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 64 | Ecology | 7 | 91st | Q1 | SCIE | A | No |
| 65 | Advances in Ecological Research | 7 | 91st | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 66 | Insect Science | 7 | 91st | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 67 | Journal of Animal Ecology | 6.9 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 68 | Plants People Planet | 6.9 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 69 | Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History | 6.8 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 70 | Basic and Applied Ecology | 6.7 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 71 | Biogeosciences | 6.7 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 72 | Geobiology | 6.7 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 73 | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 6.6 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 74 | PLOS Genetics | 6.6 | 90th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 75 | Ecosystems and People | 6.5 | 89th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 76 | Fungal Systematics and Evolution | 6.5 | 89th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 77 | Genetics Selection Evolution | 6.5 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 78 | Soil Ecology Letters | 6.5 | 89th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 79 | Systematic and Applied Microbiology | 6.5 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 80 | Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research | 6.4 | 89th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 81 | Biology Direct | 6.4 | 89th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 82 | Ecological Complexity | 6.3 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 83 | EvoDevo | 6.3 | 88th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 84 | Evolutionary Applications | 6.3 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 85 | Frontiers in Fungal Biology | 6.3 | 88th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 86 | Journal of Plant Ecology | 6.3 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 87 | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 6.2 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 88 | PLOS Computational Biology | 6.2 | 88th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 89 | Insect Conservation and Diversity | 6.1 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 90 | Journal of Human Evolution | 6.1 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 91 | Oikos | 6.1 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 92 | Biodiversity and Conservation | 6 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 93 | Conservation and Society | 6 | 87th | Q1 | SSCI | – | Yes |
| 94 | Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research | 6 | 87th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 95 | Journal of Biogeography | 6 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 96 | Quaternary Science Reviews | 6 | 87th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 97 | Advances in Simulation | 5.9 | 86th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 98 | Environmental and Sustainability Indicators | 5.9 | 86th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 99 | Movement Ecology | 5.9 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 100 | Global Ecology and Conservation | 5.8 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 101 | Journal of Sea Research | 5.8 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 102 | Evolution and Human Behavior | 5.7 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 103 | Mycorrhiza | 5.7 | 86th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 104 | Environments - MDPI | 5.7 | 85th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 105 | Frontiers of Biogeography | 5.7 | 85th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 106 | Vertebrate Zoology | 5.7 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 107 | Anatomical Record | 5.6 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 108 | Ecological Frontiers | 5.6 | 85th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 109 | Innovation Life | 5.6 | 85th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 110 | Restoration Ecology | 5.6 | 85th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 111 | Advances in Marine Biology | 5.5 | 84th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 112 | American Naturalist | 5.5 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 113 | Applications in Plant Sciences | 5.5 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 114 | Biological Invasions | 5.5 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 115 | IMA Fungus | 5.5 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 116 | Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science | 5.5 | 84th | Q1 | SSCI | – | No |
| 117 | Paleobiology | 5.5 | 84th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 118 | Infection, Genetics and Evolution | 5.5 | 83rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 119 | Alpine Botany | 5.4 | 83rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 120 | Journal of Biological Dynamics | 5.4 | 83rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 121 | Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology | 5.4 | 83rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 122 | Metabarcoding and Metagenomics | 5.4 | 83rd | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 123 | Natural and Engineering Sciences | 5.4 | 83rd | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 124 | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | 5.3 | 83rd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 125 | Boreas | 5.3 | 82nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 126 | Current Research in Insect Science | 5.3 | 82nd | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 127 | Ecosphere | 5.3 | 82nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 128 | International Journal of Microbiology | 5.3 | 82nd | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 129 | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability | 5.2 | 82nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 130 | Estuaries and Coasts | 5.2 | 82nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 131 | Journal of Arid Environments | 5.2 | 82nd | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 132 | Evolution Letters | 5.1 | 81st | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 133 | Fungal Biology | 5.1 | 81st | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 134 | Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics | 5.1 | 81st | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 135 | Taxon | 5.1 | 81st | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 136 | Genome Biology and Evolution | 5 | 81st | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 137 | Mycologia | 5 | 81st | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 138 | Palaeontology | 5 | 81st | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 139 | Fungal Ecology | 4.9 | 81st | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 140 | Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society | 4.9 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 141 | Ibis | 4.9 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 142 | Mammalian Biology | 4.9 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 143 | Phytobiomes Journal | 4.9 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 144 | Frontiers in Zoology | 4.8 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 145 | MycoKeys | 4.8 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 146 | Mycological Progress | 4.8 | 80th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 147 | Animal Cognition | 4.8 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 148 | Marine Mammal Science | 4.8 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 149 | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 4.8 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 150 | Plant Direct | 4.8 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 151 | Weed Research | 4.8 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 152 | Algae | 4.7 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 153 | Insect Systematics and Diversity | 4.7 | 79th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 154 | Vegetation Classification and Survey | 4.7 | 79th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 155 | Journal of Great Lakes Research | 4.7 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 156 | Journal of Marine Systems | 4.7 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 157 | Microbes and Environments | 4.7 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 158 | Chemistry and Ecology | 4.6 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 159 | NeoBiota | 4.6 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 160 | Oecologia | 4.6 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 161 | Evolution | 4.5 | 78th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 162 | Journal of Anatomy | 4.5 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 163 | Journal of Experimental Biology | 4.5 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 164 | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution | 4.5 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 165 | Oryx | 4.5 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 166 | Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology | 4.5 | 77th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 167 | American Journal of Botany | 4.4 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 168 | Fishes | 4.4 | 77th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 169 | Biological Theory | 4.4 | 76th | Q1 | ESCI | – | No |
| 170 | Evolution, Medicine and Public Health | 4.4 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 171 | Bioacoustics | 4.3 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 172 | BMC Ecology and Evolution | 4.3 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 173 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 4.3 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 174 | Mediterranean Marine Science | 4.3 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 175 | Organisms Diversity and Evolution | 4.3 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 176 | Regional Studies in Marine Science | 4.3 | 76th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 177 | International Journal of Primatology | 4.3 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 178 | Ecohydrology | 4.2 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 179 | International Journal of Ecology | 4.2 | 75th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 180 | Zoologica Scripta | 4.2 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 181 | Behavioral Sciences | 4.1 | 75th | Q1 | SSCI | – | Yes |
| 182 | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | 4.1 | 75th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 183 | Behavioral Ecology | 4.1 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 184 | Evolutionary Human Sciences | 4.1 | 74th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 185 | Invertebrate Systematics | 4.1 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 186 | Pedobiologia | 4.1 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 187 | Behavior Genetics | 4 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 188 | Journal of Invertebrate Pathology | 4 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 189 | Tropical Ecology | 4 | 74th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 190 | Journal of Ecological Engineering | 4 | 73rd | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 191 | Marine Ecology Progress Series | 4 | 73rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 192 | Ecological Management and Restoration | 3.9 | 73rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 193 | Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology | 3.9 | 73rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 194 | Journal of Plankton Research | 3.9 | 73rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 195 | Medical and Veterinary Entomology | 3.9 | 73rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 196 | Plant Biosystems | 3.9 | 73rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 197 | Ecological Research | 3.9 | 72nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 198 | Evolutionary Ecology | 3.9 | 72nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 199 | Herpetological Monographs | 3.9 | 72nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 200 | Systematics and Biodiversity | 3.9 | 72nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 201 | Aquatic Sciences | 3.8 | 72nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 202 | Journal of Hymenoptera Research | 3.8 | 72nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 203 | Journal of Mammalian Evolution | 3.8 | 72nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 204 | Shengtai Xuebao/Acta Ecologica Sinica | 3.8 | 72nd | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 205 | Australian Systematic Botany | 3.8 | 71st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 206 | Biochemical Genetics | 3.8 | 71st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 207 | Biochemical Systematics and Ecology | 3.8 | 71st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 208 | Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture | 3.8 | 71st | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 209 | Environmental Microbiology Reports | 3.8 | 71st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 210 | Journal of Wildlife Management | 3.8 | 71st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 211 | Marine Biology | 3.8 | 71st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 212 | Conservation Genetics | 3.7 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 213 | Evolutionary Biology | 3.7 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 214 | Grassland Research | 3.7 | 70th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 215 | Integrative Organismal Biology | 3.7 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 216 | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 3.7 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 217 | Nature Conservation | 3.7 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 218 | One Ecosystem | 3.7 | 70th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 219 | Wildlife Monographs | 3.7 | 70th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 220 | Evolution and Development | 3.7 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 221 | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 3.7 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 222 | Journal of Fish Biology | 3.7 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 223 | Animal Behaviour | 3.6 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 224 | Aquatic Ecology | 3.6 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 225 | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 3.6 | 69th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 226 | Ecologies | 3.6 | 69th | Q2 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 227 | Biologia | 3.6 | 68th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 228 | Culture and Evolution | 3.6 | 68th | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 229 | Ecology of Freshwater Fish | 3.6 | 68th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 230 | Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology | 3.6 | 68th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 231 | Marine and Freshwater Research | 3.6 | 68th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 232 | Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments | 3.6 | 68th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 233 | Plant Physiology Reports | 3.6 | 68th | Q2 | ESCI | – | No |
| 234 | Studies in Fungi | 3.6 | 68th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 235 | American Journal of Human Biology | 3.5 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE, SSCI | – | No |
| 236 | Antarctic Science | 3.5 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 237 | Ecology and Evolution | 3.5 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 238 | Environmental Biology of Fishes | 3.5 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 239 | Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants | 3.5 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 240 | Freshwater Science | 3.5 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 241 | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 3.5 | 67th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 242 | Integrative Systematics | 3.5 | 66th | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 243 | Polar Science | 3.5 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 244 | Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology | 3.5 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 245 | Wetlands Ecology and Management | 3.5 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 246 | Cryptogamie, Algologie | 3.4 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 247 | Journal of Zoology | 3.4 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 248 | New Zealand Journal of Ecology | 3.4 | 66th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 249 | Biotropica | 3.4 | 65th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 250 | Human Nature | 3.4 | 65th | Q2 | SSCI | – | No |
| 251 | Theory in Biosciences | 3.4 | 65th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 252 | Wildlife Research | 3.4 | 65th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 253 | Austral Ecology | 3.3 | 65th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 254 | Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences | 3.3 | 65th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 255 | New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research | 3.3 | 65th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 256 | Palaios | 3.3 | 65th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 257 | American Journal of Primatology | 3.3 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 258 | Avian Research | 3.3 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 259 | Botanica Marina | 3.3 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 260 | Food Webs | 3.3 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 261 | Biodiversity Science | 3.2 | 64th | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 262 | Journal of Mammalogy | 3.2 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 263 | Web Ecology | 3.2 | 64th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 264 | Acta Zoologica | 3.2 | 63rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 265 | Artificial Life | 3.2 | 63rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 266 | Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata | 3.2 | 63rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 267 | Journal of Marine Sciences | 3.2 | 63rd | Q2 | – | – | No |
| 268 | Mammal Research | 3.2 | 63rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 269 | New Zealand Journal of Botany | 3.2 | 63rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 270 | Physiological Entomology | 3.2 | 63rd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 271 | Management of Biological Invasions | 3.2 | 62nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 272 | Science of Nature | 3.2 | 62nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 273 | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 3.1 | 62nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 274 | Contributions to Zoology | 3.1 | 62nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 275 | Environmental Entomology | 3.1 | 62nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 276 | International Journal of Forestry Research | 3.1 | 62nd | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 277 | Lethaia | 3.1 | 62nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 278 | Plant Systematics and Evolution | 3.1 | 62nd | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 279 | Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research | 3.1 | 61st | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 280 | Biogeographia | 3.1 | 61st | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 281 | Cryptogamie, Mycologie | 3.1 | 61st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 282 | Evolutionary Bioinformatics | 3.1 | 61st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 283 | International Review of Hydrobiology | 3.1 | 61st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 284 | BioInvasions Records | 3 | 61st | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 285 | Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution | 3 | 61st | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 286 | Community Ecology | 3 | 60th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 287 | Journal of Chemical Ecology | 3 | 60th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 288 | Marine and Coastal Fisheries | 3 | 60th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 289 | Willdenowia | 3 | 60th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 290 | Genomics and Informatics | 2.9 | 60th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 291 | Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research | 2.9 | 60th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 292 | Ecoscience | 2.9 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 293 | Ethology Ecology and Evolution | 2.9 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 294 | Journal of Avian Biology | 2.9 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 295 | BioRisk | 2.8 | 59th | Q2 | – | – | Yes |
| 296 | Hystrix | 2.8 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 297 | Neotropical Ichthyology | 2.8 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 298 | PhytoKeys | 2.8 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 299 | Sydowia | 2.8 | 59th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
| 300 | Botany | 2.8 | 58th | Q2 | SCIE | – | No |
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