Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Plant Science journal rankings 2023
557 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 557 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.52, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.04. The top three are Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, Molecular Plant, and Agronomy for Sustainable Development.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
557 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Artificial Intelligence in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · China | 5.54Q1 | 14.75 2.93 up from 2022 | 77 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
2Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 4.65Q1 | 9.35 7.04 down from 2022 | 618 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
3Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.67Q1 | 8.36 0.32 down from 2022 | 242 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
4Nature PlantsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 10.71 2.27 down from 2022 | 673 | 37% | $12,690 | ||
5Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.35Q1 | 9.59 0.48 down from 2022 | 2,106 | 29% | $3,870 | ||
6Journal of Integrative Plant BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 8.37 2.17 down from 2022 | 444 | 66% | $3,000 | ||
7Smart Agricultural TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.94Q1 | 7.76 4.07 up from 2022 | 164 | 100% | $1,770 | ||
8Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 8.94 1.81 down from 2022 | 628 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
9Plant CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.88Q1 | 8.82 1.28 down from 2022 | 236 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
10New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 8.25 0.92 down from 2022 | 2,194 | 87% | $5,790 | ||
11Information Processing in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.83Q1 | 7.86 0.29 up from 2022 | 154 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
12Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 7.45 1.30 down from 2022 | 58 | 48% | — | ||
13Plant StressOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.69Q1 | 8.15 2.23 up from 2022 | 125 | 100% | $2,310 | ||
14Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 7.06 0.06 down from 2022 | 260 | 45% | $4,190 | ||
15Molecular HorticultureOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 8.12 0.77 down from 2022 | 43 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
16Phytochemistry ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.58Q1 | 8.63 0.83 up from 2022 | 177 | 44% | $4,790 | ||
17Journal of Agriculture and Food ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 6.88 1.63 up from 2022 | 465 | 100% | $2,530 | ||
18Horticulture ResearchOANature Portfolio · China | 2.47Q1 | 7.80 2.17 down from 2022 | 840 | 100% | $2,960 | ||
19Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 6.69 0.20 up from 2022 | 745 | 34% | $3,680 | ||
20Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.39Q1 | 24.76 1.57 down from 2022 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
21Plant PhenomicsOAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · China | 2.32Q1 | 7.98 0.40 down from 2022 | 95 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
22Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.31Q1 | 5.17 0.95 down from 2022 | 1,447 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
23Chemical and Biological Technologies in AgricultureOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.29Q1 | 6.77 1.09 down from 2022 | 198 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
24Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 6.52 1.23 down from 2022 | 731 | 66% | $5,440 | ||
25The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 2.25Q1 | 7.23 0.63 down from 2022 | 987 | 100% | $4,934 | ||
26Microbiological ResearchElsevier BV · Germany | 2.23Q1 | 6.91 0.68 down from 2022 | 607 | 100% | $4,470 | ||
27Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 2.22Q1 | 7.01 0.30 down from 2022 | 1,500 | 16% | $3,990 | ||
28European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 5.25 0.60 down from 2022 | 511 | 39% | $3,200 | ||
29Food and Energy SecurityOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 4.94 0.79 down from 2022 | 223 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
30Plants People PlanetOAWiley · United States | 2.13Q1 | 4.06 2.04 down from 2022 | 213 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
31Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 6.99 0.58 down from 2022 | 859 | 22% | $4,280 | ||
32StressesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.11Q1 | 6.27 3.49 up from 2022 | 65 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
33Fungal Biology ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 6.48 0.12 up from 2022 | 80 | 29% | $3,000 | ||
34Current Plant BiologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 6.23 0.06 up from 2022 | 124 | 100% | $3,440 | ||
35The Crop JournalOAKeAi · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 5.88 0.21 down from 2022 | 467 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
36Physiologia PlantarumWiley · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 5.98 0.76 down from 2022 | 746 | 59% | $4,150 | ||
37Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 4.55 0.79 down from 2022 | 215 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
38The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 6.10 1.19 down from 2022 | 1,323 | 85% | $5,450 | ||
39Biosystems EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 5.27 0.66 down from 2022 | 675 | 34% | $3,350 | ||
40Frontiers in AgronomyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.92Q1 | 4.60 0.36 up from 2022 | 256 | 100% | $3,077 | ||
41Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 5.60 1.11 down from 2022 | 1,654 | 70% | $4,341 | ||
42Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 5.35 0.10 down from 2022 | 362 | 100% | $3,330 | ||
43Plant MethodsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 5.91 0.24 down from 2022 | 422 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
44Current Research in Microbial SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 6.53 1.41 up from 2022 | 170 | 100% | $2,680 | ||
45Plant Cell ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.87Q1 | 6.19 0.57 down from 2022 | 452 | 12% | $4,590 | ||
46Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural SciencesOAElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 1.86Q1 | 5.41 1.53 up from 2022 | 183 | 99% | — | ||
47Journal of Plant Growth RegulationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.81Q1 | 4.78 0.45 down from 2022 | 821 | 14% | $3,890 | ||
48Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 5.10 0.79 down from 2022 | 947 | 25% | $3,000 | ||
49Saudi Journal of Biological SciencesElsevier BV · Saudi Arabia | 1.77Q1 | 5.49 0.47 up from 2022 | 1,919 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
50Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.76Q1 | 5.04 1.46 down from 2022 | 708 | 33% | $5,190 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science557
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics151
- Food Science141
- Animal Science and Zoology56
- Insect Science49
- Soil Science42
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Aquatic Science36
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
158 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 557
- Window papers (baseline)
- 277,532 +13.8% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.523 +1.8% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.