Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Plant Science journal rankings 2002
265 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 265 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.26, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 0.68. The top three are The Plant Journal, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, and The Plant Cell.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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)
265 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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 6.35 0.47 up from 2001 | 866 | 58% | $5,450 | ||
2Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.53Q1 | 4.51 0.11 up from 2001 | 458 | 54% | $3,000 | ||
3The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.18Q1 | 5.68 0.29 down from 2001 | 1,300 | 98% | $4,934 | ||
4PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.94Q1 | 5.10 0.19 up from 2001 | 1,856 | 80% | $3,851 | ||
5Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 3.38 0.40 down from 2001 | 422 | 59% | $5,440 | ||
6New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.02 0.33 up from 2001 | 699 | 43% | $5,790 | ||
7Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 2.51 0.53 down from 2001 | 131 | 0% | — | ||
8Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.23Q1 | 4.84 1.22 up from 2001 | 707 | 7% | $4,590 | ||
9MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.05Q1 | 1.86 0.57 up from 2001 | 169 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
10PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.01Q1 | 3.26 0.38 down from 2001 | 699 | 3% | $4,590 | ||
11Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 1.74 0.06 down from 2001 | 276 | 7% | $3,680 | ||
12Physiological and Molecular Plant PathologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.00 0.68 down from 2001 | 169 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
13Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.65Q1 | 2.62 0.18 up from 2001 | 1,010 | 5% | $5,190 | ||
14Molecular BreedingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 2.36 0.05 up from 2001 | 174 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
15Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.56Q1 | 1.76 0.36 up from 2001 | 269 | 12% | $4,280 | ||
16Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 1.51 0.18 up from 2001 | 834 | 5% | $4,790 | ||
17Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 2.55 0.54 up from 2001 | 1,105 | 64% | $4,341 | ||
18Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 2.10 0.59 up from 2001 | 82 | 58% | $3,330 | ||
19PhytopathologyAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 1.46Q1 | 1.97 0.13 up from 2001 | 530 | 13% | — | ||
20Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q1 | 1.30 0.18 up from 2001 | 146 | 4% | $3,000 | ||
21Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.20 0.65 up from 2001 | 552 | 35% | $3,085 | ||
22Journal of Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 2.03 0.39 up from 2001 | 816 | 4% | $3,777 | ||
23Food Additives & ContaminantsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 1.43 0.36 up from 2001 | 375 | 3% | — | ||
24Agronomy JournalWiley · United States | 1.31Q1 | 1.15 0.02 up from 2001 | 536 | 4% | $1,800 | ||
25Weed ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 1.46 0.07 down from 2001 | 135 | 14% | $3,840 | ||
26Journal of Plant Growth RegulationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.24Q1 | 2.18 1.35 up from 2001 | 113 | 6% | $3,890 | ||
27International Journal of PhytoremediationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.22Q1 | 1.52 0.67 up from 2001 | 77 | 4% | — | ||
28European Journal of Plant PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.22Q1 | 1.60 0.53 up from 2001 | 303 | 9% | $2,590 | ||
29GenomeNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.20Q1 | 1.74 0.06 down from 2001 | 512 | 6% | — | ||
30Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 1.64 0.10 up from 2001 | 665 | 100% | $3,617 | ||
31Chromosome ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.19Q1 | 1.81 0.03 down from 2001 | 276 | 6% | $4,390 | ||
32Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.16Q1 | 0.91 0.19 up from 2001 | 44 | 3% | $4,190 | ||
33American Journal of Enology and ViticultureAmerican Society for Enology and Viticulture · United States | 1.14Q1 | 0.91 0.02 up from 2001 | 206 | 12% | — | ||
34Weed ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 1.11Q1 | 1.24 0.13 up from 2001 | 349 | 5% | $3,550 | ||
35Archives of VirologySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.07Q1 | 2.01 0.23 up from 2001 | 599 | 19% | $4,790 | ||
36Physiologia PlantarumWiley · United Kingdom | 1.05Q1 | 1.63 0.02 down from 2001 | 704 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
37Australian Journal of Agricultural ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.05Q1 | 1.12 0.25 up from 2001 | 378 | 5% | — | ||
38European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.04Q1 | 1.11 0.07 down from 2001 | 142 | 12% | $3,200 | ||
39Crop ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 1.11 0.17 up from 2001 | 304 | 2% | $4,360 | ||
40Current Opinion in Plant BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 6.98 1.15 up from 2001 | 345 | 5% | $4,810 | ||
41PhytocoenologiaGebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung · Germany | 1.03Q1 | 0.85 0.16 up from 2001 | 57 | 8% | — | ||
42Trends in Plant ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.02Q1 | 3.36 0.50 down from 2001 | 765 | 5% | $7,030 | ||
43Plant ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.99Q1 | 1.77 0.30 up from 2001 | 706 | 3% | $3,760 | ||
44Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.99Q1 | 0.98 0.05 up from 2001 | 215 | 3% | $3,870 | ||
452001 Sacramento, CA July 29-August 1,2001Publisher not listed | 0.97Q1 | 0.11no 2001 value | 542 | — | — | — | |
46Acta HorticulturaeInternational Society for Horticultural Science | 0.95Q1 | 0.14 0.03 up from 2001 | 5,081 | 3% | — | ||
47Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 0.93Q1 | 1.74 0.19 up from 2001 | 349 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
48Plant BiologyWiley · Germany | 0.92Q1 | 1.45 0.23 up from 2001 | 350 | 11% | $3,400 | ||
49Economic BotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.91Q1 | 0.70 0.15 up from 2001 | 168 | 2% | $3,990 | ||
50Plant PathologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.90Q1 | 1.32 0.24 up from 2001 | 353 | 45% | $4,640 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science265
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics105
- Food Science63
- Insect Science40
- Animal Science and Zoology36
- Soil Science27
- Agronomy and Crop Science25
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences17
- Aquatic Science15
- Forestry2
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
109 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 265
- Window papers (baseline)
- 108,798 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.265 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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.