Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
Choose a field to open its ranking, or a journal to find its row in its subfield’s list.
Subfield ranking · 2011
Plant Science journal rankings 2011
431 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 431 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2010 to 0.58, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.13. The top three are The Plant Cell, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, and The Plant Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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)
431 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 5.10Q1 | 9.83 0.27 up from 2010 | 928 | 98% | $4,934 | ||
2Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.83Q1 | 6.24 0.19 up from 2010 | 59 | 18% | — | ||
3The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 7.65 0.18 down from 2010 | 1,060 | 61% | $5,450 | ||
4New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 4.37Q1 | 6.60 0.09 up from 2010 | 1,238 | 57% | $5,790 | ||
5PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 4.27Q1 | 8.04 0.58 up from 2010 | 1,631 | 82% | $3,851 | ||
6Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.90Q1 | 5.35 0.11 up from 2010 | 490 | 61% | $3,000 | ||
7Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 6.92 1.18 up from 2010 | 253 | 68% | $4,320 | ||
8Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 6.44 1.10 up from 2010 | 486 | 58% | $5,440 | ||
9Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 6.11 0.64 up from 2010 | 1,203 | 87% | $4,341 | ||
10Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 4.61 0.03 down from 2010 | 223 | 91% | $3,330 | ||
11Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 3.23Q1 | 7.09 1.55 up from 2010 | 287 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
12Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.19Q1 | 4.15 1.21 up from 2010 | 180 | 35% | $2,990 | ||
13BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 5.02 0.76 down from 2010 | 578 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
14Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.90Q1 | 34.02 0.26 down from 2010 | 81 | 8% | — | ||
15Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 4.50 0.56 down from 2010 | 439 | 23% | $4,590 | ||
16European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 3.19 0.10 up from 2010 | 201 | 19% | $3,200 | ||
17Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 4.04 0.02 up from 2010 | 787 | 100% | $3,617 | ||
18Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 3.26 0.58 up from 2010 | 509 | 10% | $3,680 | ||
19Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 3.76 0.53 up from 2010 | 105 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
20Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 5.76 0.60 up from 2010 | 589 | 40% | $3,085 | ||
21Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.59Q1 | 4.15 0.04 up from 2010 | 810 | 19% | $5,190 | ||
22Plant MethodsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 4.50 0.27 down from 2010 | 76 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
23The Plant GenomeOACrop Science Society of America · United States | 2.52Q1 | 3.46 0.56 down from 2010 | 71 | 100% | $3,140 | ||
24Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 3.23 0.42 up from 2010 | 1,154 | 20% | $4,790 | ||
25The Arabidopsis BookOAUnited States | 2.50Q1 | 4.57 0.02 up from 2010 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
26Australian Journal of Grape and Wine ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 2.63 0.65 down from 2010 | 140 | 66% | $1,460 | ||
27Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 3.29 0.24 up from 2010 | 423 | 28% | $3,000 | ||
28RiceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.39Q1 | 4.20 0.75 up from 2010 | 55 | 96% | $3,090 | ||
29Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 2.87 0.27 up from 2010 | 407 | 13% | $3,870 | ||
30Physiologia PlantarumWiley · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 4.10 0.65 up from 2010 | 429 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
31PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.21Q1 | 3.90 0.22 up from 2010 | 656 | 14% | $4,590 | ||
32International Journal of Plant GenomicsHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 2.17Q1 | 2.74 0.94 down from 2010 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
33MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.16Q1 | 2.96 0.30 down from 2010 | 190 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
34Functional Plant BiologyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 2.15Q1 | 3.27 0.58 up from 2010 | 377 | 34% | — | ||
35Phytochemistry ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 3.66no change | 112 | 25% | $4,790 | ||
36Food Additives & Contaminants Part ATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 2.61 0.13 down from 2010 | 530 | 42% | — | ||
37PhytopathologyAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 2.10Q1 | 3.12 0.05 down from 2010 | 539 | 22% | — | ||
38Plant ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 3.46 0.39 up from 2010 | 550 | 8% | $3,760 | ||
39Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 2.09Q1 | 3.55 0.16 up from 2010 | 409 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
40Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 2.86 0.02 down from 2010 | 469 | 11% | $4,280 | ||
41Economic BotanySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 1.88 0.15 up from 2010 | 124 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
42Journal of Plant Growth RegulationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.99Q1 | 2.89 0.38 up from 2010 | 150 | 17% | $3,890 | ||
43Renewable Agriculture and Food SystemsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 1.82 0.40 up from 2010 | 133 | 21% | $3,550 | ||
44Fungal Biology ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 4.15 1.82 up from 2010 | 48 | 12% | $3,000 | ||
45Journal of Plant PhysiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.94Q1 | 3.14 0.12 up from 2010 | 612 | 13% | $3,370 | ||
46Agronomy JournalWiley · United States | 1.89Q1 | 2.45 0.26 up from 2010 | 748 | 11% | $1,800 | ||
47Pest Management ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 2.98 0.27 up from 2010 | 557 | 11% | $5,360 | ||
48Crop ScienceWiley · United States | 1.88Q1 | 2.41 0.37 down from 2010 | 933 | 12% | $1,980 | ||
49American Journal of Enology and ViticultureAmerican Society for Enology and Viticulture · United States | 1.86Q1 | 2.53 0.42 up from 2010 | 201 | 40% | — | ||
50Journal of Agronomy and Crop ScienceWiley · Germany | 1.81Q1 | 2.53 0.43 up from 2010 | 164 | 8% | $4,780 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science431
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics128
- Food Science90
- Insect Science48
- Animal Science and Zoology44
- Agronomy and Crop Science34
- Soil Science30
- Aquatic Science28
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences23
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
160 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 431
- Window papers (baseline)
- 195,978 +31.0% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.58 +39.6% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.