Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Subfield ranking · 2000
Plant Science journal rankings 2000
215 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 215 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.35, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.73. The top three are The Plant Cell, The Plant Journal, and Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
215 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.55Q1 | 6.29no 1999 value | 1,074 | 46% | $4,934 | — | |
2The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 6.49no 1999 value | 926 | 50% | $5,450 | — | |
3Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.14Q1 | 4.08no 1999 value | 402 | 51% | $3,000 | — | |
4Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 3.00no 1999 value | 119 | 0% | — | — | |
5Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 3.14no 1999 value | 446 | 56% | $5,440 | — | |
6PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.37Q1 | 4.74no 1999 value | 1,573 | 81% | $3,851 | — | |
7New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 2.43no 1999 value | 662 | 51% | $5,790 | — | |
8PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.09Q1 | 3.59no 1999 value | 694 | 7% | $4,590 | — | |
9MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.76Q1 | 1.42no 1999 value | 145 | 3% | $3,990 | — | |
10Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 1.40no 1999 value | 829 | 7% | $4,790 | — | |
11Molecular BreedingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 2.73no 1999 value | 161 | 7% | $3,990 | — | |
12Physiological and Molecular Plant PathologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 2.29no 1999 value | 164 | 8% | $3,550 | — | |
13Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 3.09no 1999 value | 964 | 4% | $4,590 | — | |
14Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 2.55no 1999 value | 984 | 6% | $5,190 | — | |
15PhytopathologyAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 1.39Q1 | 1.97no 1999 value | 551 | 19% | — | — | |
16Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 1.34no 1999 value | 349 | 7% | $3,680 | — | |
17GenomeNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.28Q1 | 1.61no 1999 value | 412 | 4% | — | — | |
18Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 2.40no 1999 value | 563 | 7% | $3,085 | — | |
19Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 1.65no 1999 value | 1,111 | 30% | $4,341 | — | |
20Physiologia PlantarumWiley · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 1.78no 1999 value | 1,071 | 11% | $4,150 | — | |
21Proceedings of the New Zealand Weed Control ConferenceOANew Zealand Plant Protection Society · New Zealand | 1.17Q1 | 0.38no 1999 value | 248 | 100% | — | — | |
22Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 1.47no 1999 value | 568 | 32% | $3,617 | — | |
23Journal of Stored Products ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 1.09no 1999 value | 119 | 2% | $4,190 | — | |
24Journal of Crop ProductionHaworth Press · United States | 1.15Q1 | 0.78no 1999 value | 40 | 6% | — | — | |
25Seed Science ResearchOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 1.51no 1999 value | 156 | 11% | $3,550 | — | |
26Trends in Plant ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.11Q1 | 5.11no 1999 value | 482 | 4% | $7,030 | — | |
27European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q1 | 0.95no 1999 value | 157 | 17% | $3,200 | — | |
28Journal of Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.10Q1 | 1.70no 1999 value | 842 | 7% | $3,777 | — | |
29European Journal of Plant PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.08Q1 | 1.20no 1999 value | 291 | 13% | $2,590 | — | |
30Economic BotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.05Q1 | 0.96no 1999 value | 165 | 6% | $3,990 | — | |
31Agronomy JournalWiley · United States | 1.01Q1 | 0.83no 1999 value | 429 | 9% | $1,800 | — | |
32Food Additives & ContaminantsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.00Q1 | 1.46no 1999 value | 279 | 1% | — | — | |
33Chromosome ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.98Q1 | 1.73no 1999 value | 269 | 4% | $4,390 | — | |
34The Journal of the Torrey Botanical SocietyUnited States | 0.96Q1 | 1.12no 1999 value | 113 | 0% | — | — | |
35Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.96Q1 | 1.49no 1999 value | 234 | 2% | $4,280 | — | |
36Acta HorticulturaeInternational Society for Horticultural Science | 0.94Q1 | 0.12no 1999 value | 5,157 | 2% | — | — | |
37Weed ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 0.93Q1 | 1.00no 1999 value | 408 | 7% | $3,550 | — | |
38Journal of Plant PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 0.85Q1 | 1.16no 1999 value | 50 | 0% | $3,490 | — | |
39Archives of VirologySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.85Q1 | 1.76no 1999 value | 603 | 21% | $4,790 | — | |
40Transactions of the ASAEUnited States | 0.84Q1 | 0.65no 1999 value | 622 | 14% | — | — | |
41Plant PathologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.84Q1 | 1.04no 1999 value | 347 | 41% | $4,640 | — | |
42Journal of Plant ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.83Q1 | 1.51no 1999 value | 207 | 0% | $3,890 | — | |
43Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 0.83Q1 | 1.44no 1999 value | 255 | 5% | $3,990 | — | |
44Culture & AgricultureWiley · United States | 0.82Q1 | 0.65no 1999 value | 72 | 14% | — | — | |
45Canadian Journal of BotanyCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.82Q1 | 0.93no 1999 value | 640 | 2% | — | — | |
46Current Opinion in Plant BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.81Q1 | 4.92no 1999 value | 264 | 2% | $4,810 | — | |
46PROTOPLASMASpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.81Q1 | 1.57no 1999 value | 360 | 6% | $3,690 | — | |
48American Journal of Enology and ViticultureAmerican Society for Enology and Viticulture · United States | 0.81Q1 | 0.78no 1999 value | 231 | 8% | — | — | |
49Australian Journal of Grape and Wine ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.80Q1 | 1.03no 1999 value | 52 | 77% | $1,460 | — | |
50Crop ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.79Q1 | 0.91no 1999 value | 306 | 4% | $4,360 | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science215
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics95
- Food Science57
- Insect Science36
- Animal Science and Zoology26
- Agronomy and Crop Science25
- Soil Science24
- Aquatic Science16
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences15
- Forestry2
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
136 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 215
- Window papers (baseline)
- 88,671 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.35 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 215 | 251 | 265 | 281 | 281 | 296 | 313 | 328 | 337 | 365 | 403 | 431 | 463 | 489 | 518 | 554 | 570 | 576 | 571 | 570 | 577 | 570 | 571 | 557 | 550 | 551 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 88,671 | 102,845 | 108,798 | 117,271 | 114,833 | 122,027 | 129,649 | 140,330 | 149,628 | 162,470 | 178,755 | 195,978 | 206,307 | 211,540 | 217,656 | 225,949 | 230,311 | 226,813 | 226,801 | 231,348 | 243,835 | 258,777 | 269,536 | 277,532 | 278,967 | 292,920 | |
| Median OJR | 0.35 | 0.262 | 0.265 | 0.28 | 0.3220 | 0.29 | 0.3222 | 0.37 | 0.41 | 0.45 | 0.484 | 0.58 | 0.573 | 0.569 | 0.5473 | 0.50 | 0.476 | 0.472 | 0.466 | 0.49 | 0.51 | 0.550 | 0.518 | 0.523 | 0.5469 | 0.56 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.