Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Plant Science journal rankings 2020
577 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 577 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.04. The top three are Ethnobotany Research and Applications, Agronomy for Sustainable Development, and Molecular Plant.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
577 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Ethnobotany Research and ApplicationsOAUniversity of Hawaii Press · United States | 6.99Q1 | 11.30 10.80 up from 2019 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
2Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.98Q1 | 7.98 1.17 up from 2019 | 188 | 98% | $2,990 | ||
3Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 3.81Q1 | 10.39 0.74 up from 2019 | 459 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
4Nature PlantsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 9.58 1.40 up from 2019 | 643 | 42% | $12,690 | ||
5Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 7.39 3.89 up from 2019 | 218 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
6NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.58Q1 | 7.58 4.68 up from 2019 | 88 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
7New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 8.72 0.80 up from 2019 | 1,901 | 66% | $5,790 | ||
8Food and Energy SecurityOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 4.28 1.84 down from 2019 | 79 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
9Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.00Q1 | 5.62 0.59 up from 2019 | 788 | 38% | $3,680 | ||
10Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 8.17 0.11 down from 2019 | 598 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
11European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 5.55 0.95 up from 2019 | 333 | 41% | $3,200 | ||
12Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 7.61 1.93 up from 2019 | 1,365 | 29% | $3,870 | ||
13The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 2.91Q1 | 7.65 0.59 down from 2019 | 779 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
14Fungal Biology ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 6.69 1.48 up from 2019 | 55 | 37% | $3,000 | ||
15Information Processing in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 5.85 1.21 up from 2019 | 165 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
16Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.74Q1 | 29.15 5.52 up from 2019 | 82 | 50% | — | ||
17PresliaOACzech Botanical Society · Czechia | 2.74Q1 | 5.13 0.24 up from 2019 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
18Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 5.88 1.81 down from 2019 | 51 | 40% | — | ||
19Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 7.18 1.10 up from 2019 | 677 | 47% | $5,440 | ||
20Frontiers in Plant ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.66Q1 | 7.22 1.49 up from 2019 | 5,814 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
21Horticulture ResearchOANature Portfolio · China | 2.59Q1 | 7.72 1.40 up from 2019 | 249 | 100% | $2,960 | ||
22Food Quality and SafetyOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 4.20 1.08 down from 2019 | 97 | 100% | $1,855 | ||
23Chemical and Biological Technologies in AgricultureOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.56Q1 | 3.46 0.59 down from 2019 | 84 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
24PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.54Q1 | 6.66 0.46 down from 2019 | 1,540 | 95% | $3,851 | ||
25Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 5.43 0.58 up from 2019 | 328 | 100% | $3,330 | ||
26Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 6.42 0.37 up from 2019 | 1,510 | 71% | $4,341 | ||
27Journal of FungiOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.48Q1 | 6.47 0.11 up from 2019 | 329 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
28Biotechnology Research and InnovationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 6.70 1.45 up from 2019 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
29Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural SciencesOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 2.34Q1 | 4.59 1.24 up from 2019 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
30Advances in Pharmacological SciencesOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 5.98 2.85 up from 2019 | 52 | — | $900 | ||
31Microbiological ResearchElsevier BV · Germany | 2.32Q1 | 5.58 0.51 up from 2019 | 375 | 96% | $4,470 | ||
32Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 5.92 1.16 up from 2019 | 767 | 24% | $3,000 | ||
33Plant MethodsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 6.66 1.96 up from 2019 | 389 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
34Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.28Q1 | 5.71 3.05 up from 2019 | 206 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
35The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 5.91 0.13 down from 2019 | 1,097 | 75% | $5,450 | ||
36The Crop JournalOAKeAi · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 4.80 0.97 up from 2019 | 216 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
37Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 5.34 0.90 up from 2019 | 192 | 39% | $4,190 | ||
38Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.22Q1 | 5.90 1.17 up from 2019 | 663 | 34% | $5,190 | ||
39Phytochemistry ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.14Q1 | 6.06 1.37 up from 2019 | 165 | 29% | $4,790 | ||
40RiceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.11Q1 | 6.21 1.44 up from 2019 | 214 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
41Journal of Plant InteractionsOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 4.46 0.42 up from 2019 | 186 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
42Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 5.74 0.74 up from 2019 | 665 | 22% | $4,280 | ||
43Biosystems EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 5.17 1.49 up from 2019 | 623 | 33% | $3,350 | ||
44GM crops & foodOALandes Bioscience · United States | 2.05Q1 | 4.09 2.18 down from 2019 | 48 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
45Journal of Integrative Plant BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 6.33 2.15 up from 2019 | 328 | 37% | $3,000 | ||
46PlantsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.04Q1 | 4.87 0.66 up from 2019 | 837 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
47HorticulturaeOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.02Q1 | 3.37 0.23 down from 2019 | 160 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
48BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 5.25 0.74 up from 2019 | 1,233 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
49Rice ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 3.97 0.53 down from 2019 | 129 | 100% | — | ||
50AgronomyOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.98Q1 | 4.49 0.71 up from 2019 | 1,336 | 100% | $3,137 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science577
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics152
- Food Science139
- Animal Science and Zoology58
- Insect Science51
- Soil Science42
- Aquatic Science39
- Agronomy and Crop Science38
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
157 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 577
- Window papers (baseline)
- 243,835 +7.5% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.51 +9.0% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.