Evolutionary Biology: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2025
1	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	ca. 17.9
2	Nature Ecology & Evolution	ca. 17.1
3	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	ca. 12.9
4	Cladistics	ca. 8.9
5	Molecular Biology and Evolution	ca. 6.4
6	Systemic Biology	ca. 6.2
7	Molecular Ecology Resources	ca. 5.9
8	Evolution Letters	ca. 4.3
-	Systematic Entomology	ca. 4.3
10	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution	ca. 4
11	Molecular Ecology	ca. 3.7
12	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	ca. 3.6
13	Genome Biology and Evolution	ca. 3.3
-	Journal of Human Evolution	ca. 3.3
15	Evolutionary Applications	ca. 3.2
16	Evolution	ca. 3
-	Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research	ca. 3
18	Journal of Systematic Palaeontology	ca. 2.9
-	Paleobiology	ca. 2.9
20	Biology Letters	ca. 2.7
-	American Naturalist	ca. 2.7
-	BMC Ecology and Evolution	ca. 2.7
-	Evolution Medicine and Public Health	ca. 2.7
24	Ecology and Evolution	ca. 2.6
-	EvoDevo	ca. 2.6
-	Evolutionary Biology	ca. 2.6
-	Heredity	ca. 2.6
28	Evolution & Development	ca. 2.4
29	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	ca. 2.3
30	Biochemical Systematics and Ecology	ca. 2.2
-	Invertebrate Systematics	ca. 2.2
-	Journal of Heredity	ca. 2.2
33	Evolutionary Ecology	ca. 2
-	Integrative Organismal Biology	ca. 2
-	Journal of Molecular Evolution	ca. 2
-	Zoologica Scripta	ca. 2
37	Taxon	ca. 1.9
38	Australian Systematic Botany	ca. 1.8
-	Organisms Diversity & Evolution	ca. 1.8
40	Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B-Molecular and Developmental Evolution	ca. 1.7
-	Plant Systematics and Evolution	ca. 1.7
42	Evolutionary Bioinformatics	ca. 1.6
-	Biological Journal of the Linnean Society	ca. 1.6
44	Development Genes and Evolution	ca. 1.5
45	Theoretical Population Biology	ca. 1.4
46	Systematic Botany	ca. 0.9
47	Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology	ca. 0.5