Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Plant Science journal rankings 2019
570 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 570 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.49, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.00. The top three are Nature Plants, Agronomy for Sustainable Development, and Food and Energy Security.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
570 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Nature PlantsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 8.19 0.71 up from 2018 | 641 | 31% | $12,690 | ||
2Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.82Q1 | 6.81 1.12 up from 2018 | 199 | 93% | $2,990 | ||
3Food and Energy SecurityOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.76Q1 | 6.11 0.57 up from 2018 | 71 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
4New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 7.93 0.70 up from 2018 | 1,741 | 67% | $5,790 | ||
5Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 3.56Q1 | 9.64 3.16 up from 2018 | 489 | 99% | $5,000 | ||
6Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 7.69 1.58 up from 2018 | 53 | 29% | — | ||
7Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 8.28 1.36 up from 2018 | 511 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
8The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.33Q1 | 8.24 0.55 up from 2018 | 699 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
9Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 6.08 0.52 up from 2018 | 713 | 69% | $5,440 | ||
10Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.83Q1 | 5.03 0.94 up from 2018 | 868 | 31% | $3,680 | ||
11European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 4.61 0.70 up from 2018 | 409 | 35% | $3,200 | ||
12PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.81Q1 | 7.12 0.54 up from 2018 | 1,648 | 99% | $3,851 | ||
13Horticulture ResearchOANature Portfolio · China | 2.78Q1 | 6.33 1.58 up from 2018 | 164 | 100% | $2,960 | ||
14Information Processing in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.77Q1 | 4.64 0.43 up from 2018 | 137 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
15Fungal Biology ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 5.21 0.79 down from 2018 | 61 | 13% | $3,000 | ||
16NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 2.89 0.12 down from 2018 | 98 | 97% | $2,500 | ||
17Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural SciencesOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 2.62Q1 | 3.35 0.16 up from 2018 | 155 | 100% | — | ||
18Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.62Q1 | 5.68 1.48 up from 2018 | 1,175 | 28% | $3,870 | ||
19The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 6.04 0.44 down from 2018 | 1,006 | 72% | $5,450 | ||
20Frontiers in Plant ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.58Q1 | 5.73 0.47 up from 2018 | 6,161 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
21Journal of FungiOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.56Q1 | 6.36 1.63 up from 2018 | 234 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
22Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 6.05 0.75 up from 2018 | 1,484 | 81% | $4,341 | ||
23Food Quality and SafetyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 5.28 1.56 up from 2018 | 64 | 100% | $1,855 | ||
24Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.49Q1 | 23.63 3.18 up from 2018 | 80 | 58% | — | ||
25Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 3.50 0.28 up from 2018 | 201 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
26GM crops & foodOALandes Bioscience · United States | 2.46Q1 | 6.27 1.75 up from 2018 | 41 | 96% | $2,650 | ||
27Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 4.85 0.84 up from 2018 | 381 | 100% | $3,330 | ||
28The Plant GenomeOACrop Science Society of America · United States | 2.42Q1 | 4.09 1.27 down from 2018 | 200 | 100% | $3,140 | ||
29Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.36Q1 | 4.44 0.73 up from 2018 | 184 | 31% | $4,190 | ||
30The Crop JournalOAKeAi · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 3.83 0.27 up from 2018 | 197 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
31Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.30Q1 | 5.00 0.70 up from 2018 | 604 | 21% | $4,280 | ||
32PresliaOACzech Botanical Society · Czechia | 2.29Q1 | 4.89 1.47 up from 2018 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
33Microbiological ResearchElsevier BV · Germany | 2.28Q1 | 5.07 1.40 up from 2018 | 395 | 98% | $4,470 | ||
34Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 3.93 0.35 up from 2018 | 711 | 99% | $3,617 | ||
35Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.24Q1 | 4.73 0.70 up from 2018 | 643 | 28% | $5,190 | ||
36Mycotoxin ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.23Q1 | 3.10 0.57 down from 2018 | 102 | 28% | $3,790 | ||
37BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 4.51 0.34 down from 2018 | 894 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
38Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 4.75 0.90 up from 2018 | 658 | 25% | $3,000 | ||
39Pharmacognosy Reviews/Bioinformatics Trends/Pharmacognosy reviewMedknow · India | 2.16Q1 | 3.65 0.97 down from 2018 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
40RiceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.13Q1 | 4.77 0.33 up from 2018 | 180 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
41Mobile DNAOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.64 0.55 down from 2018 | 83 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
42Rice ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 4.50 1.14 up from 2018 | 119 | 100% | — | ||
43Biosystems EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 3.68 0.31 up from 2018 | 633 | 33% | $3,350 | ||
44Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 2.04Q1 | 4.18 0.19 down from 2018 | 1,171 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
45Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 2.04Q1 | 3.94 0.25 up from 2018 | 338 | 91% | $3,000 | ||
46PlantsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.01Q1 | 4.21 0.31 up from 2018 | 223 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
47Functional Plant BiologyCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 2.00Q1 | 3.52 1.14 up from 2018 | 364 | 25% | — | ||
48Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 3.96 0.10 down from 2018 | 382 | 19% | $4,590 | ||
49Journal of Plant InteractionsOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 4.05 1.59 up from 2018 | 156 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
50Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.99Q1 | 3.95 0.44 up from 2018 | 1,105 | 28% | $4,790 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science570
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics150
- Food Science146
- Animal Science and Zoology60
- Insect Science53
- Aquatic Science43
- Agronomy and Crop Science40
- Soil Science39
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences32
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
170 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 570
- Window papers (baseline)
- 231,348 +0.5% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.49 +2.8% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.