Journals particularly favored by two distinct groups of scientists for their manuscripts involving insects were compared. Scientists who worked in biology departments that were units of colleges of arts and sciences or some other academic unit with a designation meant to distinguish it from a college of agriculture had proportionally more publications in journals of the study of general genetics and genomics using insect models; journals of the study of general molecular, cellular, and developmental biology using insect models; journals of insect behavior and neuroscience, evolution, and systematics; and the more general journals of science and biology. Scientists who worked in entomology departments within colleges of agriculture had higher percentages of their papers in journals of general entomology and type of insect, journals of insect structure and function, and journals of economic entomology and crop protection. Authors of both types contributed at about the same rate to journals of ecological entomology and medical, veterinary, and tropical entomology. While the number of unique titles exceeded the 98 titles in common, those shared journals actually accounted for 59 percent of the combined output of 1,955 articles appearing between 2004–2008. Moreover, the percentage of papers in journals with 5 or more papers from both arts and sciences and agricultural communities exceeded the percentage of papers in journals with 5 or more papers that are not frequently common venues for both communities. These communities tend to use many of the same journals, but to rank them in predictably different ways as venues for their papers is a finding important for prioritizing collection management and budgeting decisions.