Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Plant Science journal rankings 2015
554 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 554 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 0.93. The top three are The Plant Cell, Journal of Botany, and The Plant Genome.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
554 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 4.64Q1 | 8.73 0.91 down from 2014 | 1,124 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
2Journal of BotanyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 4.62Q1 | 0.67 6.47 down from 2014 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
3The Plant GenomeOACrop Science Society of America · United States | 4.39Q1 | 6.42 0.83 up from 2014 | 87 | 100% | $3,140 | ||
4Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.34Q1 | 5.98 1.65 down from 2014 | 78 | 33% | — | ||
5New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 6.86 0.11 down from 2014 | 1,524 | 61% | $5,790 | ||
6PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 3.80Q1 | 7.22 0.30 down from 2014 | 1,429 | 92% | $3,851 | ||
7Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 6.44 0.10 down from 2014 | 1,425 | 91% | $4,341 | ||
8Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 6.47 0.04 down from 2014 | 349 | 90% | $4,320 | ||
9Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.41Q1 | 4.37 0.35 up from 2014 | 204 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
10RiceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.37Q1 | 5.99 0.66 up from 2014 | 109 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
11Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 5.71 0.53 down from 2014 | 619 | 73% | $5,440 | ||
12Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 4.41 0.80 down from 2014 | 286 | 94% | $3,330 | ||
13The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 6.51 0.11 down from 2014 | 967 | 66% | $5,450 | ||
14Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 4.21 0.45 up from 2014 | 214 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
15Fungal Biology ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 5.36 0.52 down from 2014 | 37 | 53% | $3,000 | ||
16European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.17Q1 | 4.19 0.79 up from 2014 | 298 | 22% | $3,200 | ||
17AgronomyOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 3.16Q1 | 4.09 0.19 up from 2014 | 99 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
18Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.02Q1 | 4.25 0.81 down from 2014 | 408 | 92% | $3,000 | ||
19Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.01Q1 | 3.95 0.26 down from 2014 | 403 | 20% | $3,000 | ||
20Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.90Q1 | 3.28 0.81 down from 2014 | 731 | 26% | $3,680 | ||
21BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 4.62 0.43 down from 2014 | 859 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
22Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 2.76Q1 | 5.56 0.20 down from 2014 | 470 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
23Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.74Q1 | 4.61 0.06 down from 2014 | 659 | 24% | $5,190 | ||
24Frontiers in Plant ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.73Q1 | 5.52 0.12 up from 2014 | 1,630 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
25Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 4.16 0.22 up from 2014 | 824 | 100% | $3,617 | ||
26Pharmacognosy Reviews/Bioinformatics Trends/Pharmacognosy reviewMedknow · India | 2.65Q1 | 4.37 1.26 up from 2014 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
27Horticulture ResearchOANature Portfolio · China | 2.65Q1 | 4.79no 2014 value | 33 | 100% | $2,960 | — | |
28Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.48Q1 | 25.89 1.43 down from 2014 | 98 | 55% | — | ||
29Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 3.32 0.12 up from 2014 | 1,240 | 26% | $4,790 | ||
30Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 4.76 0.49 down from 2014 | 604 | 48% | $3,085 | ||
31Plant ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 4.05 0.23 down from 2014 | 534 | 27% | $3,760 | ||
32Plant MethodsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 5.02 0.35 up from 2014 | 139 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
33Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.30Q1 | 4.71 0.03 down from 2014 | 399 | 19% | $4,590 | ||
34Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 2.47 0.35 down from 2014 | 124 | 23% | $4,190 | ||
35Journal of Agronomy and Crop ScienceWiley · Germany | 2.17Q1 | 2.47 0.35 down from 2014 | 152 | 19% | $4,780 | ||
36Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 2.95 0.23 up from 2014 | 569 | 17% | $3,870 | ||
37Mobile DNAOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.52 0.87 up from 2014 | 80 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
38ToxinsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.08Q1 | 4.68 0.56 up from 2014 | 455 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
39Journal of Sustainable AgricultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.07Q1 | —no 2014 value | 44 | — | — | ||
40Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 3.33 0.02 up from 2014 | 594 | 17% | $4,280 | ||
41Physiologia PlantarumWiley · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 3.23 0.02 up from 2014 | 480 | 18% | $4,150 | ||
42Functional Plant BiologyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 2.02Q1 | 2.66 0.71 down from 2014 | 403 | 33% | — | ||
43MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.01Q1 | 3.12 0.44 down from 2014 | 193 | 17% | $3,990 | ||
44PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.00Q1 | 3.78 0.10 down from 2014 | 642 | 25% | $4,590 | ||
45AgricultureOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.97Q1 | 2.98 1.28 up from 2014 | 93 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
46Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 1.95Q1 | 3.48no change | 844 | 13% | $3,990 | ||
47AoB PlantsOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.81 0.48 down from 2014 | 204 | 100% | $1,404 | ||
48ScientificaOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 4.82 1.86 up from 2014 | 221 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
49Fungal ecologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 2.86 0.46 down from 2014 | 208 | 28% | $3,500 | ||
50Journal of Plant PhysiologyElsevier BV · Germany | 1.90Q1 | 3.26 0.05 up from 2014 | 689 | 21% | $3,370 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science554
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics144
- Food Science122
- Insect Science54
- Animal Science and Zoology51
- Agronomy and Crop Science37
- Aquatic Science36
- Soil Science35
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences32
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
164 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 554
- Window papers (baseline)
- 225,949 +9.5% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.50 -12.8% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.