Table 1.
Proportion of articles that reported theoretical work in the top 20 journals in ecology and evolutionary biology in 2011
| Journal | 5-y Impact factor | No. of papers | Theoretical proportion |
| Evolution | 5.6 | 304 | 0.188 |
| Molecular Biology and Evolution | 9.9 | 306 | 0.176 |
| American Naturalist | 4.7 | 182 | 0.154 |
| Ecology Letters | 15.4 | 155 | 0.142 |
| Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 3.7 | 261 | 0.138 |
| Ecological Applications | 5.4 | 272 | 0.118 |
| Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B | 5.7 | 495 | 0.109 |
| Journal of Applied Ecology | 5.8 | 173 | 0.104 |
| Journal of Animal Ecology | 5.0 | 137 | 0.095 |
| Heredity | 4.5 | 185 | 0.081 |
| BMC Evolutionary Biology | 4.6 | 379 | 0.079 |
| Ecology | 6.0 | 240 | 0.063 |
| Behavioral Ecology | 3.4 | 201 | 0.060 |
| Oecologia | 3.9 | 317 | 0.050 |
| Global Ecology and Biogeography | 6.6 | 81 | 0.049 |
| Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 4.0 | 257 | 0.047 |
| Journal of Ecology | 6.0 | 157 | 0.045 |
| Oikos | 3.6 | 214 | 0.037 |
| Ecography | 5.5 | 107 | 0.028 |
| Functional Ecology | 4.9 | 146 | 0.014 |