Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Plant Science journal rankings 2013
489 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 489 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.57, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.07. The top three are The Plant Cell, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, and The Arabidopsis Book.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
489 ranked journals
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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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 5.32Q1 | 10.36 0.16 up from 2012 | 1,042 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
2Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.25Q1 | 7.11 0.54 up from 2012 | 76 | 20% | — | ||
3The Arabidopsis BookOAUnited States | 4.68Q1 | 12.80 5.80 up from 2012 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
4PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 4.64Q1 | 8.53 0.15 up from 2012 | 1,549 | 85% | $3,851 | ||
5The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.32Q1 | 7.75 0.07 down from 2012 | 1,075 | 65% | $5,450 | ||
6New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 6.69 0.07 up from 2012 | 1,290 | 58% | $5,790 | ||
7Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 7.26 0.22 down from 2012 | 294 | 66% | $4,320 | ||
8Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 7.23 1.05 up from 2012 | 1,302 | 89% | $4,341 | ||
9Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.80Q1 | 5.71 0.95 up from 2012 | 479 | 75% | $3,000 | ||
10Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 3.75Q1 | 6.27 0.68 down from 2012 | 366 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
11Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 6.57 0.97 up from 2012 | 546 | 65% | $5,440 | ||
12Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 5.44 1.09 up from 2012 | 249 | 92% | $3,330 | ||
13BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 5.59 0.35 down from 2012 | 724 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
14Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 6.10 1.09 up from 2012 | 575 | 47% | $3,085 | ||
15European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.90Q1 | 3.34 0.51 down from 2012 | 230 | 16% | $3,200 | ||
16The Plant GenomeOACrop Science Society of America · United States | 2.89Q1 | 5.31 1.16 up from 2012 | 74 | 100% | $3,140 | ||
17Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.80Q1 | 4.70 0.28 up from 2012 | 768 | 23% | $5,190 | ||
18Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 2.75Q1 | 4.21 0.68 up from 2012 | 175 | 87% | $2,990 | ||
19Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 3.68 0.56 up from 2012 | 655 | 17% | $3,680 | ||
20Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 3.54 1.22 down from 2012 | 128 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
21Plant ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 4.78 0.96 up from 2012 | 552 | 15% | $3,760 | ||
22MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.57Q1 | 3.54 0.20 up from 2012 | 182 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
23Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 3.34 0.34 up from 2012 | 1,275 | 22% | $4,790 | ||
24RiceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.53Q1 | 3.05 0.06 down from 2012 | 79 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
25Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 3.78 0.01 up from 2012 | 853 | 100% | $3,617 | ||
26Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 4.82 0.63 up from 2012 | 394 | 22% | $4,590 | ||
27Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.45Q1 | 24.19 7.03 down from 2012 | 80 | 10% | — | ||
28Pharmacognosy Reviews/Bioinformatics Trends/Pharmacognosy reviewMedknow · India | 2.38Q1 | 4.02 0.89 up from 2012 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
29Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.36Q1 | 3.40 0.49 up from 2012 | 501 | 48% | $3,000 | ||
30Fungal Biology ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 5.19 1.47 up from 2012 | 51 | 13% | $3,000 | ||
31Frontiers in Plant ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.33Q1 | 4.73 2.11 up from 2012 | 416 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
32Journal of BotanyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 3.96 1.26 up from 2012 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
33Fungal ecologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 3.65 0.07 down from 2012 | 177 | 16% | $3,500 | ||
34Australian Journal of Grape and Wine ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 3.14 0.53 up from 2012 | 136 | 79% | $1,460 | ||
35PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.21Q1 | 3.74 0.10 down from 2012 | 724 | 23% | $4,590 | ||
36Functional Plant BiologyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 2.15Q1 | 3.11 0.03 up from 2012 | 378 | 35% | — | ||
37Journal of Agronomy and Crop ScienceWiley · Germany | 2.10Q1 | 2.76 0.25 down from 2012 | 144 | 20% | $4,780 | ||
38Journal of Integrative Plant BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.41 1.05 down from 2012 | 316 | 27% | $3,000 | ||
39Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 2.05Q1 | 3.01 0.29 down from 2012 | 600 | 12% | $3,990 | ||
40Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 2.58 0.17 down from 2012 | 465 | 16% | $3,870 | ||
41Phytochemistry ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 2.55 1.18 down from 2012 | 99 | 22% | $4,790 | ||
42Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 3.19 0.03 up from 2012 | 465 | 14% | $4,280 | ||
43Plant MethodsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 3.83 0.30 up from 2012 | 128 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
44Physiologia PlantarumWiley · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 3.41 0.37 down from 2012 | 403 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
45Journal of Plant PhysiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.87Q1 | 3.12 0.16 down from 2012 | 722 | 13% | $3,370 | ||
46Food Additives & Contaminants Part ATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.63 0.09 down from 2012 | 581 | 13% | — | ||
47World Mycotoxin JournalNetherlands | 1.83Q1 | 2.78 0.12 down from 2012 | 125 | 32% | — | ||
48Seed Science ResearchOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 2.05 0.12 up from 2012 | 121 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
49Renewable Agriculture and Food SystemsOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 1.71 0.19 up from 2012 | 149 | 41% | $3,550 | ||
50Journal of Plant Growth RegulationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.39 0.29 up from 2012 | 172 | 17% | $3,890 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science489
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics137
- Food Science106
- Insect Science53
- Animal Science and Zoology48
- Agronomy and Crop Science36
- Aquatic Science31
- Soil Science31
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences24
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
188 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 489
- Window papers (baseline)
- 211,540 +18.3% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.569 +17.7% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.