Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Plant Science journal rankings 2009
365 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 365 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.45, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.02. The top three are The Plant Cell, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, and The Plant Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
365 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 5.33Q1 | 9.97 0.47 down from 2008 | 876 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
2Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 7.27 1.50 down from 2008 | 48 | 4% | — | ||
3The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 8.01no change | 1,133 | 61% | $5,450 | ||
4Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 4.09Q1 | 5.56 0.12 down from 2008 | 446 | 70% | $3,000 | ||
5New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 6.15 0.64 up from 2008 | 1,082 | 56% | $5,790 | ||
6PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 3.97Q1 | 7.03 0.25 down from 2008 | 1,543 | 100% | $3,851 | ||
7Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 5.95 0.11 up from 2008 | 457 | 50% | $5,440 | ||
8Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 5.92 0.07 up from 2008 | 201 | 65% | $4,320 | ||
9BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 5.22 0.22 down from 2008 | 234 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
10Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 4.89 0.04 up from 2008 | 1,156 | 87% | $4,341 | ||
11Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 4.27 0.54 up from 2008 | 197 | 93% | $3,330 | ||
12Food Additives & Contaminants Part ATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 2.94 1.20 up from 2008 | 176 | 46% | — | ||
13MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.69Q1 | 3.10 0.29 down from 2008 | 182 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
14Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 4.11 0.92 up from 2008 | 806 | 100% | $3,617 | ||
15Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.60Q1 | 4.23 0.02 down from 2008 | 769 | 20% | $5,190 | ||
16European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 2.69 0.02 up from 2008 | 253 | 17% | $3,200 | ||
17Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 4.81 0.39 up from 2008 | 571 | 15% | $4,590 | ||
18Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 3.56 1.27 up from 2008 | 118 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
19Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.40Q1 | 3.21 0.88 up from 2008 | 335 | 8% | $3,000 | ||
20Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.34Q1 | 2.91 0.60 up from 2008 | 376 | 10% | $3,680 | ||
21PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.33Q1 | 4.00 0.09 up from 2008 | 688 | 17% | $4,590 | ||
22Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 2.23Q1 | 2.79 0.46 up from 2008 | 166 | 44% | $2,990 | ||
23Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 2.95 0.42 up from 2008 | 1,039 | 20% | $4,790 | ||
24Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 2.44 0.74 up from 2008 | 303 | 9% | $3,870 | ||
25International Journal of Plant GenomicsHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 2.05Q1 | 3.73 1.36 up from 2008 | 41 | 95% | — | ||
26Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.04Q1 | 26.34 0.57 down from 2008 | 92 | 0% | — | ||
27Australian Journal of Grape and Wine ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 2.74 0.09 up from 2008 | 108 | 71% | $1,460 | ||
28Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 4.18 0.35 up from 2008 | 597 | 40% | $3,085 | ||
29Fungal Biology ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 4.48 1.05 up from 2008 | 31 | 5% | $3,000 | ||
30Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.99Q1 | 2.82 0.42 up from 2008 | 602 | 10% | $4,280 | ||
31Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 1.98Q1 | 3.45 1.30 up from 2008 | 110 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
32Plant MethodsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 4.46 0.68 up from 2008 | 61 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
33Food Additives & ContaminantsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 2.73 0.19 up from 2008 | 312 | — | — | ||
34Molecular BreedingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.81Q1 | 2.79 0.12 up from 2008 | 272 | 13% | $3,990 | ||
35Weed ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 2.65 0.52 up from 2008 | 179 | 22% | $3,840 | ||
36Renewable Agriculture and Food SystemsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 2.01 0.51 up from 2008 | 109 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
37Plant BiologyWiley · Germany | 1.76Q1 | 2.34 0.34 down from 2008 | 346 | 22% | $3,400 | ||
38Journal of Plant Growth RegulationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.73Q1 | 2.73 0.58 up from 2008 | 121 | 3% | $3,890 | ||
39Journal of Applied MicrobiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.74 0.34 up from 2008 | 1,211 | 13% | $3,777 | ||
40PhytopathologyAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.66 0.36 up from 2008 | 571 | 25% | — | ||
41Physiologia PlantarumWiley · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 3.05 0.20 up from 2008 | 603 | 14% | $4,150 | ||
42Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 1.65Q1 | 2.75 0.39 up from 2008 | 400 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
43Chromosome ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 3.18 0.31 down from 2008 | 278 | 36% | $4,390 | ||
44Functional Plant BiologyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.60Q1 | 2.26 0.43 down from 2008 | 377 | 28% | — | ||
| 1.60Q1 | 0.79 1.26 down from 2008 | 58 | 100% | — | |||
46Agronomy JournalWiley · United States | 1.60Q1 | 1.76 0.30 down from 2008 | 756 | 8% | $1,800 | ||
47Journal of Plant PhysiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.59Q1 | 2.47 0.23 up from 2008 | 494 | 11% | $3,370 | ||
48Crop ScienceWiley · United States | 1.59Q1 | 2.58 0.80 up from 2008 | 1,161 | 9% | $1,980 | ||
49Pest Management ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.51 0.41 up from 2008 | 515 | 5% | $5,360 | ||
50Phytochemistry ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 3.25 0.78 up from 2008 | 122 | 17% | $4,790 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science365
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics113
- Food Science82
- Animal Science and Zoology46
- Insect Science45
- Agronomy and Crop Science30
- Soil Science29
- Aquatic Science24
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
163 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 365
- Window papers (baseline)
- 162,470 +25.3% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.45 +38.2% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.