Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Plant Science journal rankings 2003
281 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 281 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.28, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 0.76. The top three are The Plant Cell, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, and The Plant Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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)
281 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.70Q1 | 7.70 2.02 up from 2002 | 1,194 | 100% | $4,934 | ||
2Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.46Q1 | 4.23 0.29 down from 2002 | 470 | 53% | $3,000 | ||
3The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 6.56 0.21 up from 2002 | 856 | 55% | $5,450 | ||
4Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 4.26 0.88 up from 2002 | 436 | 56% | $5,440 | ||
5PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.79Q1 | 4.92 0.17 down from 2002 | 1,971 | 93% | $3,851 | ||
6Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 3.28 0.77 up from 2002 | 91 | 4% | — | ||
7Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 4.14 0.70 down from 2002 | 591 | 7% | $4,590 | ||
8New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 2.97 0.05 down from 2002 | 763 | 47% | $5,790 | ||
9Journal of Plant Growth RegulationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.04Q1 | 2.69 0.51 up from 2002 | 126 | 8% | $3,890 | ||
10Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 2.92 0.37 up from 2002 | 1,096 | 62% | $4,341 | ||
11Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 1.86 0.35 up from 2002 | 822 | 4% | $4,790 | ||
12MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.90Q1 | 2.21 0.34 up from 2002 | 159 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
13PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.89Q1 | 3.40 0.14 up from 2002 | 730 | 6% | $4,590 | ||
14Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 2.10 0.34 up from 2002 | 313 | 5% | $4,280 | ||
15European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 1.52 0.41 up from 2002 | 173 | 9% | $3,200 | ||
16Weed ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 1.36 0.09 down from 2002 | 147 | 12% | $3,840 | ||
17The Arabidopsis BookOAUnited States | 1.64Q1 | 1.83no 2002 value | 36 | 100% | — | — | |
18Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 1.30 0.44 down from 2002 | 304 | 3% | $3,680 | ||
19Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 3.25 0.05 up from 2002 | 589 | 30% | $3,085 | ||
20Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.58Q1 | 2.92 0.30 up from 2002 | 1,050 | 9% | $5,190 | ||
21PhytopathologyAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 1.56Q1 | 2.29 0.32 up from 2002 | 530 | 19% | — | ||
22Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.56Q1 | 1.80 0.50 up from 2002 | 157 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
23Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 2.30 0.20 up from 2002 | 143 | 56% | $3,330 | ||
24Journal of Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.34 0.32 up from 2002 | 843 | 9% | $3,777 | ||
25Agronomy JournalWiley · United States | 1.50Q1 | 1.43 0.28 up from 2002 | 570 | 2% | $1,800 | ||
26Molecular BreedingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.44Q1 | 2.72 0.37 up from 2002 | 175 | 2% | $3,990 | ||
27Journal of Stored Products ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 1.45 0.51 up from 2002 | 137 | 4% | $4,190 | ||
28Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 1.58 0.06 down from 2002 | 737 | 99% | $3,617 | ||
29Food Additives & ContaminantsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 1.45 0.02 up from 2002 | 463 | 9% | — | ||
30Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 1.38 0.40 up from 2002 | 242 | 12% | $3,870 | ||
31Weed ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 1.29Q1 | 1.47 0.23 up from 2002 | 329 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
32GenomeNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.27Q1 | 2.01 0.28 up from 2002 | 491 | 6% | — | ||
33Plant BiologyWiley · Germany | 1.26Q1 | 1.65 0.20 up from 2002 | 254 | 13% | $3,400 | ||
34Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 1.24Q1 | 2.11 0.37 up from 2002 | 371 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
35Australian Journal of Agricultural ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.24Q1 | 1.38 0.26 up from 2002 | 364 | 20% | — | ||
36Archives of VirologySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.19Q1 | 2.04 0.03 up from 2002 | 587 | 17% | $4,790 | ||
37Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 1.11 0.20 up from 2002 | 50 | 0% | $4,190 | ||
38Functional Plant BiologyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.16Q1 | 1.70 1.70 up from 2002 | 47 | 19% | — | ||
39American Journal of Enology and ViticultureAmerican Society for Enology and Viticulture · United States | 1.12Q1 | 1.07 0.16 up from 2002 | 187 | 9% | — | ||
40European Journal of Plant PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.12Q1 | 1.68 0.08 up from 2002 | 308 | 12% | $2,590 | ||
41Physiologia PlantarumWiley · United Kingdom | 1.11Q1 | 2.03 0.40 up from 2002 | 714 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
42Physiological and Molecular Plant PathologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.10Q1 | 1.54 0.46 down from 2002 | 204 | 2% | $3,550 | ||
43Acta HorticulturaeInternational Society for Horticultural Science | 1.09Q1 | 0.15 0.01 up from 2002 | 5,583 | 5% | — | ||
44Seed Science ResearchOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.05Q1 | 1.33 0.40 up from 2002 | 106 | 6% | $3,550 | ||
45Arid Land Research and ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.04Q1 | 0.46 0.05 down from 2002 | 92 | 7% | — | ||
46Australian Journal of Grape and Wine ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 1.11 0.29 up from 2002 | 76 | 76% | $1,460 | ||
47Plant ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.97Q1 | 1.82 0.05 up from 2002 | 798 | 5% | $3,760 | ||
47AgronomieSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 0.97Q1 | 0.83 0.10 up from 2002 | 219 | 35% | — | ||
49Folia GeobotanicaSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 0.96Q1 | 0.78 0.03 up from 2002 | 100 | 2% | $2,490 | ||
50Crop ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.96Q1 | 0.89 0.23 down from 2002 | 409 | 3% | $4,360 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science281
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics109
- Food Science65
- Insect Science42
- Animal Science and Zoology41
- Agronomy and Crop Science28
- Soil Science27
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Aquatic Science17
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
110 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 281
- Window papers (baseline)
- 117,271 +32.3% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.28 -20.3% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.