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Q3
Impact factor
0.6
journal names
American Scientist
AM SCI
Publications
1 023
Citations
19 139
h-index
60
Publications
33
Citations
6 769
Top-3 citing journals
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE (165 citations)
Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers in Psychology (132 citations)

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Citing journals

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PLoS ONE
165 citations, 0.86%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
155 citations, 0.81%
Frontiers in Psychology
132 citations, 0.69%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
100 citations, 0.52%
Scientific Reports
100 citations, 0.52%
SSRN Electronic Journal
71 citations, 0.37%
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
59 citations, 0.31%
Physical Review E
56 citations, 0.29%
Sustainability
52 citations, 0.27%
Ceramics International
48 citations, 0.25%
Biological Conservation
46 citations, 0.24%
Journal of Experimental Biology
42 citations, 0.22%
Physical Review B
42 citations, 0.22%
Science of the Total Environment
41 citations, 0.21%
Nature
39 citations, 0.2%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
38 citations, 0.2%
IEEE Access
38 citations, 0.2%
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
36 citations, 0.19%
Conservation Biology
36 citations, 0.19%
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
36 citations, 0.19%
Science
35 citations, 0.18%
American Biology Teacher
32 citations, 0.17%
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
32 citations, 0.17%
PeerJ
31 citations, 0.16%
Animal Behaviour
31 citations, 0.16%
Ecology and Evolution
31 citations, 0.16%
Current Anthropology
30 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
30 citations, 0.16%
Applied Physics Letters
30 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Applied Physics
30 citations, 0.16%
BioScience
29 citations, 0.15%
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
28 citations, 0.15%
Biodiversity and Conservation
28 citations, 0.15%
Urban Ecosystems
28 citations, 0.15%
Royal Society Open Science
27 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Theoretical Biology
27 citations, 0.14%
Communications in Computer and Information Science
26 citations, 0.14%
Behavioural Processes
26 citations, 0.14%
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
26 citations, 0.14%
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
26 citations, 0.14%
Angewandte Chemie
25 citations, 0.13%
Current Biology
24 citations, 0.13%
Radiocarbon
23 citations, 0.12%
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
22 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Environmental Management
22 citations, 0.11%
Sensors
21 citations, 0.11%
Multimedia Tools and Applications
21 citations, 0.11%
Inorganic Chemistry
21 citations, 0.11%
Quaternary Science Reviews
20 citations, 0.1%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
20 citations, 0.1%
Environmental Health Perspectives
20 citations, 0.1%
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
20 citations, 0.1%
Perspectives on Psychological Science
19 citations, 0.1%
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
18 citations, 0.09%
Hydrobiologia
18 citations, 0.09%
Marine Pollution Bulletin
18 citations, 0.09%
International Journal of Solids and Structures
18 citations, 0.09%
Physical Review Letters
18 citations, 0.09%
Journal of the American Chemical Society
18 citations, 0.09%
Quaternary International
18 citations, 0.09%
Environmental Research
18 citations, 0.09%
International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement
18 citations, 0.09%
Chemical Reviews
18 citations, 0.09%
Integrative and Comparative Biology
18 citations, 0.09%
Journal of Research in Science Teaching
18 citations, 0.09%
Physics of Life Reviews
18 citations, 0.09%
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
17 citations, 0.09%
Frontiers in Marine Science
17 citations, 0.09%
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
17 citations, 0.09%
Ecological Modelling
17 citations, 0.09%
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
17 citations, 0.09%
Soft Matter
17 citations, 0.09%
Language Teaching Research
17 citations, 0.09%
Marine Ecology - Progress Series
17 citations, 0.09%
Landscape and Urban Planning
17 citations, 0.09%
Earth-Science Reviews
17 citations, 0.09%
Animal Cognition
16 citations, 0.08%
Ecological Engineering
16 citations, 0.08%
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
16 citations, 0.08%
Nature Communications
16 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
16 citations, 0.08%
Computational Materials Science
16 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
16 citations, 0.08%
Animals
16 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
16 citations, 0.08%
Environmental Biology of Fishes
16 citations, 0.08%
Synthese
16 citations, 0.08%
Evolution: Education and Outreach
15 citations, 0.08%
Entropy
15 citations, 0.08%
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
15 citations, 0.08%
Neurocomputing
15 citations, 0.08%
Ecological Applications
15 citations, 0.08%
Surface and Coatings Technology
15 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Geophysical Research
15 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Archaeological Science
15 citations, 0.08%
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
15 citations, 0.08%
Environmental Science & Technology
15 citations, 0.08%
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
15 citations, 0.08%
Chemistry - A European Journal
15 citations, 0.08%
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
14 citations, 0.07%
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Elsevier
3659 citations, 19.12%
Springer Nature
2996 citations, 15.65%
Wiley
1859 citations, 9.71%
Taylor & Francis
1032 citations, 5.39%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
615 citations, 3.21%
MDPI
589 citations, 3.08%
SAGE
517 citations, 2.7%
Cambridge University Press
498 citations, 2.6%
Oxford University Press
400 citations, 2.09%
Frontiers Media S.A.
338 citations, 1.77%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
266 citations, 1.39%
IOP Publishing
213 citations, 1.11%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
207 citations, 1.08%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
204 citations, 1.07%
The Royal Society
164 citations, 0.86%
American Physical Society (APS)
164 citations, 0.86%
AIP Publishing
155 citations, 0.81%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
151 citations, 0.79%
Emerald
140 citations, 0.73%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
121 citations, 0.63%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
109 citations, 0.57%
IGI Global
99 citations, 0.52%
University of Chicago Press
91 citations, 0.48%
Annual Reviews
90 citations, 0.47%
American Psychological Association (APA)
75 citations, 0.39%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
74 citations, 0.39%
Pleiades Publishing
70 citations, 0.37%
Walter de Gruyter
67 citations, 0.35%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
65 citations, 0.34%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
64 citations, 0.33%
World Scientific
56 citations, 0.29%
Hindawi Limited
49 citations, 0.26%
The Company of Biologists
48 citations, 0.25%
Mary Ann Liebert
38 citations, 0.2%
PeerJ
37 citations, 0.19%
Canadian Science Publishing
37 citations, 0.19%
CSIRO Publishing
35 citations, 0.18%
Copernicus
34 citations, 0.18%
National Association of Biology Teachers
33 citations, 0.17%
EDP Sciences
29 citations, 0.15%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
28 citations, 0.15%
American Society for Microbiology
28 citations, 0.15%
Optica Publishing Group
28 citations, 0.15%
Inter-Research Science Center
27 citations, 0.14%
JMIR Publications
22 citations, 0.11%
American Physiological Society
21 citations, 0.11%
MIT Press
21 citations, 0.11%
American Geophysical Union
21 citations, 0.11%
Environmental Health Perspectives
20 citations, 0.1%
Trans Tech Publications
19 citations, 0.1%
IOS Press
18 citations, 0.09%
Pensoft Publishers
18 citations, 0.09%
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
17 citations, 0.09%
IntechOpen
17 citations, 0.09%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
16 citations, 0.08%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
16 citations, 0.08%
Geological Society of London
16 citations, 0.08%
Brill
15 citations, 0.08%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
15 citations, 0.08%
CAIRN
15 citations, 0.08%
ASME International
14 citations, 0.07%
SciELO
14 citations, 0.07%
OpenEdition
13 citations, 0.07%
American Astronomical Society
13 citations, 0.07%
Mathematical Association of America
12 citations, 0.06%
Entomological Society of America
12 citations, 0.06%
Scientific Research Publishing
12 citations, 0.06%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
12 citations, 0.06%
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
11 citations, 0.06%
Magnolia Press
11 citations, 0.06%
Crop Science Society of America
11 citations, 0.06%
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
11 citations, 0.06%
Duke University Press
10 citations, 0.05%
Tsinghua University Press
10 citations, 0.05%
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
10 citations, 0.05%
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
10 citations, 0.05%
American Public Health Association
10 citations, 0.05%
eLife Sciences Publications
10 citations, 0.05%
BMJ
10 citations, 0.05%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
9 citations, 0.05%
American Meteorological Society
9 citations, 0.05%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
9 citations, 0.05%
Japan Society of Applied Physics
9 citations, 0.05%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
9 citations, 0.05%
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
9 citations, 0.05%
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
8 citations, 0.04%
Geological Society of America
8 citations, 0.04%
Ubiquity Press
8 citations, 0.04%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
8 citations, 0.04%
University of California Press
7 citations, 0.04%
American Society for Nutrition
7 citations, 0.04%
American Ornithologists' Union
7 citations, 0.04%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
6 citations, 0.03%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
6 citations, 0.03%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
6 citations, 0.03%
Norwegian Polar Institute
6 citations, 0.03%
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
6 citations, 0.03%
Academy of Management
6 citations, 0.03%
Society for Neuroscience
6 citations, 0.03%
Zoological Society of Japan
6 citations, 0.03%
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