Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Plant Science journal rankings 2024
550 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Plant Science has 550 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.55, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.10. The top three are Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, Farming System, and Molecular Plant.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
550 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Artificial Intelligence in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · China | 5.53Q1 | 18.88 4.13 up from 2023 | 83 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
2Farming SystemOAElsevier BV | 4.85Q1 | 9.17no 2023 value | 36 | 100% | $1,800 | — | |
3Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 3.74Q1 | 12.79 3.44 up from 2023 | 597 | 99% | $5,000 | ||
4Advanced AgrochemOAElsevier BV | 3.37Q1 | 11.63 3.02 up from 2023 | 79 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
5Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.28Q1 | 8.11 0.25 down from 2023 | 273 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
6Nature PlantsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 8.09 2.62 down from 2023 | 704 | 38% | $12,690 | ||
7Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.14Q1 | 10.58 0.99 up from 2023 | 2,314 | 32% | $3,870 | ||
8Plant CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.10Q1 | 9.48 0.66 up from 2023 | 332 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
9Smart Agricultural TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.98Q1 | 8.80 1.04 up from 2023 | 380 | 100% | $1,770 | ||
10Journal of Integrative Plant BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 9.32 0.95 up from 2023 | 462 | 58% | $3,000 | ||
11Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 8.65 0.29 down from 2023 | 688 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
12Journal of Agriculture and Food ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.75Q1 | 7.94 1.05 up from 2023 | 841 | 100% | $2,530 | ||
13Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 7.87 0.80 up from 2023 | 310 | 58% | $4,190 | ||
14New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 7.80 0.45 down from 2023 | 2,229 | 79% | $5,790 | ||
15Molecular HorticultureOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 7.09 1.02 down from 2023 | 71 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
16Phytochemistry ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 9.33 0.71 up from 2023 | 162 | 22% | $4,790 | ||
17Plant StressOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 7.94 0.22 down from 2023 | 333 | 100% | $2,310 | ||
18Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.48Q1 | 7.05 0.36 up from 2023 | 863 | 42% | $3,680 | ||
19Horticulture ResearchOANature Portfolio · China | 2.47Q1 | 8.29 0.50 up from 2023 | 912 | 100% | $2,960 | ||
20Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.47Q1 | 27.56 2.79 up from 2023 | 89 | 100% | — | ||
21Information Processing in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 6.92 0.94 down from 2023 | 138 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
22AgrochemicalsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | 2.44Q1 | 7.18 4.68 up from 2023 | 40 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
23Plant PhenomicsOAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · China | 2.40Q1 | 7.21 0.77 down from 2023 | 161 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
24Microbiological ResearchElsevier BV · Germany | 2.38Q1 | 7.94 1.02 up from 2023 | 625 | 100% | $4,470 | ||
25Chemical and Biological Technologies in AgricultureOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.36Q1 | 6.28 0.49 down from 2023 | 309 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
26Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 5.37 0.82 up from 2023 | 205 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
27European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 6.10 0.86 up from 2023 | 616 | 41% | $3,200 | ||
28Crop and EnvironmentOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 6.45 0.76 up from 2023 | 66 | 100% | $2,100 | ||
29The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 2.29Q1 | 8.08 0.85 up from 2023 | 970 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
30StressesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.19Q1 | 7.20 0.93 up from 2023 | 115 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
31The Crop JournalOAKeAi · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 5.54 0.35 down from 2023 | 459 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
32Current Research in Microbial SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 5.77 0.75 down from 2023 | 185 | 100% | $2,680 | ||
33Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 6.59 0.07 up from 2023 | 709 | 56% | $5,440 | ||
34Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 7.35 0.35 up from 2023 | 1,028 | 19% | $4,280 | ||
35Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France | 1.99Q1 | 6.29 0.71 down from 2023 | 1,688 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
36Food and Energy SecurityOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 5.48 0.54 up from 2023 | 227 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
37Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.96Q1 | 4.00 1.16 down from 2023 | 2,020 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
38The Cell SurfaceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 6.11 1.61 up from 2023 | 66 | 100% | $2,530 | ||
39The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 5.80 0.30 down from 2023 | 1,353 | 81% | $5,450 | ||
40Stress BiologyOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.89Q1 | 5.20 1.43 up from 2023 | 133 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
41Current Plant BiologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 5.00 1.23 down from 2023 | 113 | 100% | $3,440 | ||
42Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 5.61 1.84 down from 2023 | 61 | 43% | — | ||
43Plant Cell ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.85Q1 | 4.77 1.42 down from 2023 | 459 | 20% | $4,590 | ||
44Biosystems EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 6.14 0.86 up from 2023 | 646 | 36% | $3,350 | ||
45Plant MethodsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 5.26 0.65 down from 2023 | 414 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
46Fungal Biology ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 4.92 1.56 down from 2023 | 84 | 32% | $3,000 | ||
47Frontiers in AgronomyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.83Q1 | 5.16 0.55 up from 2023 | 316 | 100% | $3,077 | ||
48RiceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.79Q1 | 5.80 0.53 up from 2023 | 227 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
49Journal of Natural Pesticide ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 4.87 1.37 up from 2023 | 60 | 100% | $2,020 | ||
50Legume ScienceOAWiley · United States | 1.78Q1 | 4.72 0.29 down from 2023 | 128 | 100% | $3,080 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Plant Science highlighted.
- Plant Science550
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics147
- Food Science143
- Animal Science and Zoology58
- Insect Science48
- Agronomy and Crop Science40
- Soil Science40
- Aquatic Science34
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
150 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 550
- Window papers (baseline)
- 278,967 +7.8% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.5469 -0.5% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 31
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.