Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Plant Science journal rankings 2004
281 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 281 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.32, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 0.79. The top three are The Plant Cell, The Plant Journal, and Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 4.36Q1 | 12.56 4.86 up from 2003 | 1,038 | 96% | $4,934 | ||
2The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.69Q1 | 7.51 0.95 up from 2003 | 895 | 56% | $5,450 | ||
3Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.33Q1 | 4.91 0.68 up from 2003 | 435 | 57% | $3,000 | ||
4Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 4.58 0.32 up from 2003 | 491 | 52% | $5,440 | ||
5PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 3.01Q1 | 6.14 1.22 up from 2003 | 2,066 | 98% | $3,851 | ||
6Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 5.14 1.86 up from 2003 | 78 | 0% | — | ||
7New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 3.36 0.39 up from 2003 | 872 | 49% | $5,790 | ||
8Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.84 2.01 up from 2003 | 50 | 64% | $4,320 | ||
9Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.39 1.09 up from 2003 | 148 | 55% | $3,330 | ||
10European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 1.81 0.28 up from 2003 | 238 | 8% | $3,200 | ||
11Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 4.36 0.22 up from 2003 | 634 | 11% | $4,590 | ||
12Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 3.58 0.66 up from 2003 | 1,103 | 69% | $4,341 | ||
13Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 2.06 0.20 up from 2003 | 939 | 10% | $4,790 | ||
14PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.90Q1 | 3.70 0.30 up from 2003 | 717 | 10% | $4,590 | ||
15Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 2.20 0.40 up from 2003 | 177 | 4% | $3,000 | ||
16MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.83Q1 | 1.76 0.45 down from 2003 | 194 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
17Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.73Q1 | 20.24 5.16 up from 2003 | 52 | 12% | — | ||
18Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.69Q1 | 3.09 0.17 up from 2003 | 1,170 | 11% | $5,190 | ||
19Molecular BreedingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 3.17 0.45 up from 2003 | 175 | 13% | $3,990 | ||
20Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.50 0.92 up from 2003 | 649 | 100% | $3,617 | ||
21Weed ScienceCambridge University Press · United States | 1.61Q1 | 1.95 0.48 up from 2003 | 366 | 2% | $3,550 | ||
22Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.56 0.32 up from 2003 | 590 | 33% | $3,085 | ||
23The Arabidopsis BookOAUnited States | 1.60Q1 | 2.56 0.73 up from 2003 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
24Food Additives & ContaminantsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 2.15 0.70 up from 2003 | 497 | 4% | — | ||
25Agronomy JournalWiley · United States | 1.55Q1 | 1.63 0.21 up from 2003 | 680 | 2% | $1,800 | ||
26Journal of Plant Growth RegulationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.54Q1 | 1.97 0.71 down from 2003 | 115 | 9% | $3,890 | ||
27Journal of Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 2.37 0.03 up from 2003 | 922 | 10% | $3,777 | ||
28Plant BiologyWiley · Germany | 1.44Q1 | 2.14 0.49 up from 2003 | 242 | 18% | $3,400 | ||
29Weed ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 1.83 0.47 up from 2003 | 151 | 16% | $3,840 | ||
30Physiologia PlantarumWiley · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 2.51 0.48 up from 2003 | 646 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
31Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 1.87 0.23 down from 2003 | 361 | 7% | $4,280 | ||
32Chromosome ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 2.34 0.62 up from 2003 | 269 | 5% | $4,390 | ||
33Functional Plant BiologyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.34Q1 | 2.22 0.52 up from 2003 | 171 | 17% | — | ||
34GenomeNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.33Q1 | 2.25 0.24 up from 2003 | 456 | 4% | — | ||
35PhytopathologyAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 1.29Q1 | 2.08 0.21 down from 2003 | 548 | 14% | — | ||
36Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.27Q1 | 1.39 0.09 up from 2003 | 377 | 7% | $3,680 | ||
37Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil ScienceWiley · Germany | 1.20Q1 | 1.22 0.27 up from 2003 | 352 | 13% | $4,030 | ||
38Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 1.21 0.17 down from 2003 | 203 | 4% | $3,870 | ||
392001 Sacramento, CA July 29-August 1,2001Publisher not listed | 1.18Q1 | —no 2003 value | 542 | — | — | ||
40European Journal of Plant PathologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.15Q1 | 1.62 0.06 down from 2003 | 325 | 11% | $2,590 | ||
41International Journal of PhytoremediationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.10Q1 | 1.30 0.15 up from 2003 | 83 | 4% | — | ||
42Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.07Q1 | 1.11no change | 55 | 3% | $4,190 | ||
43Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 1.05Q1 | 1.92 0.19 down from 2003 | 394 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
44AgronomieSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.04Q1 | 1.11 0.29 up from 2003 | 222 | 56% | — | ||
45Acta HorticulturaeInternational Society for Horticultural Science | 1.04Q1 | 0.15no change | 5,747 | 5% | — | ||
46Archives of VirologySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.02Q1 | 1.89 0.15 down from 2003 | 601 | 16% | $4,790 | ||
47Canadian Journal of BotanyCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.01Q1 | 1.50 0.32 up from 2003 | 440 | 3% | — | ||
48PROTOPLASMASpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.00Q1 | 2.05 0.27 down from 2003 | 195 | 6% | $3,690 | ||
49NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.99Q1 | 0.64 0.80 down from 2003 | 65 | 97% | $2,500 | ||
50Australian Journal of Agricultural ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.98Q1 | 1.04 0.33 down from 2003 | 405 | 8% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science281
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics106
- Food Science68
- Animal Science and Zoology42
- Insect Science42
- Soil Science26
- Agronomy and Crop Science25
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences19
- Aquatic Science17
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
120 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 281
- Window papers (baseline)
- 114,833 +11.7% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.3220 +22.9% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.