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Best Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journals
735 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 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 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 46 | Plant Biology | 8.6 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 47 | Ecosystems | 8.5 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 48 | Marine Life Science and Technology | 8.5 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 49 | Plants | 8.5 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 50 | Forest Ecosystems | 8.3 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 51 | People and Nature | 8.2 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 52 | Fire Ecology | 8.1 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 53 | Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology | 8.1 | 92th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 54 | mSystems | 8.1 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 55 | Zoological Research | 8 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 56 | Journal of Plant Interactions | 7.9 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 57 | BMC Biology | 7.8 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 58 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 7.8 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 59 | Molecular Ecology | 7.7 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 60 | Journal of Systematics and Evolution | 7.7 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 61 | Biological Conservation | 7.6 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 62 | Fungal Biology and Biotechnology | 7.1 | 91th | Q1 | – | – | Yes |
| 63 | Life | 7.1 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 64 | Ecology | 7 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | A | No |
| 65 | Advances in Ecological Research | 7 | 91th | Q1 | – | – | No |
| 66 | Insect Science | 7 | 91th | 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 |
Rank and percentile are within the Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.