Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Subfield ranking · 2001
Plant Science journal rankings 2001
251 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 251 ranked journals in 2001. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2000 to 0.26, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.73. The top three are Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, The Plant Journal, and The Plant Cell.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. 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 1998–2000, the window the 2001 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)
251 ranked journals
Filters
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 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 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 2001. | Compare |
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1Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.51Q1 | 4.40 0.31 up from 2000 | 428 | 54% | $3,000 | ||
2The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 5.88 0.61 down from 2000 | 940 | 51% | $5,450 | ||
3The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.26Q1 | 5.96 0.32 down from 2000 | 1,120 | 39% | $4,934 | ||
4Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 3.04 0.04 up from 2000 | 122 | 0% | — | ||
5Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 3.79 0.65 up from 2000 | 408 | 63% | $5,440 | ||
6PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.72Q1 | 4.90 0.16 up from 2000 | 1,567 | 69% | $3,851 | ||
7New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 2.68 0.25 up from 2000 | 636 | 49% | $5,790 | ||
8PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.24Q1 | 3.64 0.05 up from 2000 | 686 | 5% | $4,590 | ||
9Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 3.62 0.54 up from 2000 | 852 | 7% | $4,590 | ||
10Physiological and Molecular Plant PathologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 2.68 0.38 up from 2000 | 161 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
11Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 1.80 0.47 up from 2000 | 320 | 8% | $3,680 | ||
12Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.64Q1 | 2.44 0.11 down from 2000 | 1,013 | 5% | $5,190 | ||
13Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 1.33 0.07 down from 2000 | 800 | 6% | $4,790 | ||
14PhytopathologyAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 1.40Q1 | 1.84 0.13 down from 2000 | 564 | 18% | — | ||
15Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.51no 2000 value | 43 | 53% | $3,330 | — | |
16MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.37Q1 | 1.30 0.12 down from 2000 | 146 | 8% | $3,990 | ||
17Agronomy JournalWiley · United States | 1.35Q1 | 1.13 0.29 up from 2000 | 461 | 3% | $1,800 | ||
18European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q1 | 1.18 0.23 up from 2000 | 144 | 4% | $3,200 | ||
19Weed ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 1.53 0.76 up from 2000 | 146 | 18% | $3,840 | ||
20Molecular BreedingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.32Q1 | 2.31 0.42 down from 2000 | 173 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
21Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 2.55 0.15 up from 2000 | 537 | 8% | $3,085 | ||
22Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 2.00 0.35 up from 2000 | 1,140 | 42% | $4,341 | ||
23Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 1.41 0.08 down from 2000 | 255 | 9% | $4,280 | ||
24Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 1.54 0.07 up from 2000 | 648 | 31% | $3,617 | ||
25GenomeNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.19Q1 | 1.80 0.20 up from 2000 | 459 | 3% | — | ||
26Journal of Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 1.63 0.06 down from 2000 | 840 | 10% | $3,777 | ||
27Physiologia PlantarumWiley · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 1.65 0.13 down from 2000 | 720 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
28Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.12Q1 | 0.73 0.06 up from 2000 | 44 | — | $4,190 | ||
29Weed ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 1.07Q1 | 1.11 0.11 up from 2000 | 365 | 5% | $3,550 | ||
30Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q1 | 1.11 0.14 up from 2000 | 150 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
31Chromosome ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.03Q1 | 1.84 0.11 up from 2000 | 284 | 2% | $4,390 | ||
32Journal of Crop ProductionHaworth Press · United States | 1.03Q1 | 0.69 0.09 down from 2000 | 43 | 0% | — | ||
33Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.02Q1 | 0.93 0.51 up from 2000 | 201 | 8% | $3,870 | ||
34Trends in Plant ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.01Q1 | 3.86 1.25 down from 2000 | 606 | 3% | $7,030 | ||
35Acta HorticulturaeInternational Society for Horticultural Science | 0.99Q1 | 0.12 0.01 down from 2000 | 5,064 | 3% | — | ||
36American Journal of Enology and ViticultureAmerican Society for Enology and Viticulture · United States | 0.98Q1 | 0.89 0.11 up from 2000 | 213 | 8% | — | ||
37Seed Science ResearchOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.98Q1 | 1.17 0.34 down from 2000 | 149 | 67% | $3,550 | ||
38Archives of VirologySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.98Q1 | 1.78 0.02 up from 2000 | 613 | 15% | $4,790 | ||
39Food Additives & ContaminantsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.97Q1 | 1.08 0.38 down from 2000 | 305 | 3% | — | ||
40Australian Journal of Grape and Wine ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.97Q1 | 0.63 0.41 down from 2000 | 63 | 89% | $1,460 | ||
41Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 0.94Q1 | 1.55 0.11 up from 2000 | 336 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
42Catalyst Discovery into PracticeAmerican Society for Enology and Viticulture | 0.92Q1 | 0.26 0.07 down from 2000 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
43European Journal of Plant PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.90Q1 | 1.07 0.13 down from 2000 | 305 | 8% | $2,590 | ||
44Plant BiologyWiley · Germany | 0.90Q1 | 1.22 0.52 up from 2000 | 274 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
45Crop ScienceWiley · United States | 0.90Q1 | 1.07 0.29 up from 2000 | 1,323 | 4% | $1,980 | ||
46Current Opinion in Plant BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.89Q1 | 5.83 0.91 up from 2000 | 424 | 4% | $4,810 | ||
47Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil ScienceWiley · Germany | 0.87Q1 | 0.58 0.30 up from 2000 | 241 | 5% | $4,030 | ||
48Crop ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.82Q1 | 0.95 0.04 up from 2000 | 302 | 2% | $4,360 | ||
49Plant PathologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.82Q1 | 1.08 0.04 up from 2000 | 352 | 45% | $4,640 | ||
50Australian Journal of Agricultural ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.80Q1 | 0.86 0.18 up from 2000 | 337 | 4% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science251
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics101
- Food Science62
- Insect Science38
- Animal Science and Zoology31
- Agronomy and Crop Science26
- Soil Science26
- Aquatic Science16
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences16
- Forestry2
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
104 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1998–2000, 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: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 251
- Window papers (baseline)
- 102,845 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.262 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 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.