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Journal rankings · indicator year 2025

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Plant Science journal rankings 2025

551 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Plant Science has 551 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.56, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.12. The two highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture and Molecular Plant: each is likely ranked within the top 6.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 score is computed on.

551
50% of Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Median OJR

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.

0.56+0.01 vs 2024
This subfieldAll 0.78World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

58%
All fields: 38%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,000
Median positive listed APC: $3,000 among 267 journals. Another 14 list $0; 270 have no known price. All fields: $3,200.

Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)

551 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Plant Science ranking, 2025

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different.

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.

OJR

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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025.

A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change.

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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #3 of 551Artificial Intelligence in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · China
6.10Q117.95 0.92 down from 202489100%$1,100
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #6 of 551Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China
4.66Q117.25 4.46 up from 202454162%$5,000
Rank 3; likely between #1 and #30 of 551Farming SystemOAElsevier BV
4.57Q110.01 0.85 up from 202469100%$1,800
Rank 4; likely between #1 and #12 of 551New CropsElsevier BV
4.51Q113.32 4.12 up from 202450100%$0 listed
Rank 5; likely between #4 and #13 of 551Journal of Integrative Plant BiologyWiley · United Kingdom
3.37Q110.67 1.35 up from 202452358%$3,000
Rank 6; likely between #2 and #37 of 551Frontiers in ScienceOAFrontiers Media
3.30Q19.39 1.61 down from 202464100%$0 listed
Rank 7; likely between #3 and #27 of 551Agriculture CommunicationsOAElsevier BV
3.30Q19.91 4.69 up from 202443100%$1,600
Rank 8; likely between #5 and #11 of 551Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands
3.29Q111.19 0.61 up from 20242,87829%$3,870Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 9; likely between #6 and #15 of 551Plant CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · United States
3.16Q110.52 1.04 up from 2024484100%$3,500
Rank 10; likely between #4 and #25 of 551Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France
3.06Q18.86 0.75 up from 202425874%$2,990
Rank 11; likely between #4 and #38 of 551Crop and EnvironmentOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.98Q19.19 2.74 up from 202486100%$2,100
Rank 12; likely between #6 and #23 of 551Plant StressOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.94Q19.26 1.32 up from 2024653100%$2,310
Rank 13; likely between #6 and #27 of 551Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
2.90Q18.31 0.45 up from 202432768%$4,190
Rank 14; likely between #10 and #22 of 551Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom
2.86Q110.17 1.52 up from 2024734100%$4,320
Rank 15; likely between #9 and #26 of 551Smart Agricultural TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.85Q18.70 0.10 down from 2024709100%$1,770
Rank 16; likely between #10 and #25 of 551Nature PlantsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
2.81Q18.91 0.82 up from 202473734%$12,690Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 17; likely between #9 and #27 of 551Plant PhenomicsOAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · China
2.81Q18.85 1.64 up from 2024219100%$3,000
Rank 18; likely between #11 and #28 of 551Microbiological ResearchElsevier BV · Germany
2.74Q19.12 1.18 up from 202478133%$4,470Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 19; likely between #12 and #27 of 551The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States
2.73Q19.30 1.22 up from 20241,01580%$4,934Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 20; likely between #5 and #52 of 551npj Sustainable AgricultureOASpringer Science+Business Media
2.69Q17.18 0.02 up from 202438100%$2,490
Rank 21; likely between #14 and #27 of 551Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.68Q18.23 1.17 up from 202496431%$3,680Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 22; likely between #16 and #27 of 551New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom
2.66Q17.92 0.12 up from 20242,30971%$5,790
Rank 23; likely between #3 and #76 of 551Advanced AgrochemOAElsevier BV
2.62Q16.59 5.05 down from 2024120100%$0 listed
Rank 24; likely between #17 and #32 of 551Journal of Agriculture and Food ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.53Q17.48 0.46 down from 20241,346100%$2,530
Rank 25; likely between #6 and #56 of 551Molecular HorticultureOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.48Q18.39 1.29 up from 202496100%$0 listed
Rank 26; likely between #7 and #57 of 551Information Processing in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.48Q19.77 2.85 up from 2024101100%$2,000
Rank 27; likely between #21 and #33 of 551European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.45Q17.02 0.92 up from 202478543%$3,200Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 28; likely between #23 and #33 of 551Horticulture ResearchOANature Portfolio · China
2.42Q18.43 0.14 up from 20241,015100%$2,960
Rank 29; likely between #3 and #164 of 551AgrochemicalsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
2.42Q19.25 2.08 up from 202454100%$1,207
Rank 30; likely between #11 and #48 of 551Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States
2.39Q128.54 0.98 up from 20248496%—
Rank 31; likely between #18 and #44 of 551Phytochemistry ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
2.32Q16.98 2.35 down from 202424527%$4,790
Rank 32; likely between #11 and #69 of 551Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.31Q18.35 2.74 up from 20245540%—
Rank 33; likely between #12 and #57 of 551Food and Energy SecurityOAWiley · United Kingdom
2.30Q15.06 0.42 down from 2024230100%$4,190
Rank 34; likely between #8 and #100 of 551StressesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland
2.21Q15.06 2.14 down from 2024153100%$1,207
Rank 35; likely between #28 and #42 of 551Biosystems EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.18Q18.20 2.06 up from 202460329%$3,350Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 36; likely between #31 and #43 of 551Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom
2.10Q16.98 0.39 up from 20241,01348%$5,440
Rank 37; likely between #30 and #46 of 551The Crop JournalOAKeAi · Netherlands
2.09Q16.81 1.28 up from 2024467100%$1,890
Rank 38; likely between #17 and #83 of 551The Cell SurfaceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.08Q17.98 1.86 up from 202462100%$2,530
Rank 39; likely between #25 and #65 of 551Stress BiologyOASpringer Nature · Singapore
2.06Q15.55 0.35 up from 2024164100%$0 listed
Rank 40; likely between #32 and #57 of 551Chemical and Biological Technologies in AgricultureOASpringer Nature · Germany
2.00Q16.39 0.11 up from 2024433100%$2,790
Rank 41; likely between #36 and #49 of 551Postharvest Biology and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.96Q17.68 0.34 up from 20241,26920%$4,280
Rank 42; likely between #26 and #80 of 551Frontiers in AgronomyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland
1.93Q15.15 0.01 down from 2024324100%$3,077
Rank 43; likely between #33 and #67 of 551Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.91Q16.15 0.78 up from 2024237100%$3,590
Rank 44; likely between #27 and #91 of 551GM crops & foodOALandes Bioscience · United States
1.91Q15.75 0.11 down from 202487100%$2,650
Rank 45; likely between #25 and #101 of 551Horticulture AdvancesOASpringer Science+Business Media
1.90Q16.46 1.90 up from 202448100%$0 listed
Rank 46; likely between #40 and #58 of 551Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.87Q16.27 0.68 up from 20241,49458%$4,341
Rank 47; likely between #40 and #58 of 551Plant Physiology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · France
1.87Q16.56 0.26 up from 20242,12126%$3,990
Rank 48; likely between #35 and #69 of 551RiceOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.87Q15.80 0.01 up from 2024200100%$3,090
Rank 49; likely between #40 and #62 of 551The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom
1.84Q16.21 0.41 up from 20241,46351%$5,450
Rank 50; likely between #45 and #57 of 551Frontiers in Plant ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland
1.84Q16.29 0.84 up from 202411,922100%$3,801

The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated

Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

110 additional Plant Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
551
Window papers (baseline)
292,920 +8.7% from indicator year 2022
Median OJR
0.56 +7.7% from indicator year 2022
Rising journals (2025)
31

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals215251265281281296313328337365403431463489518554570576571570577570571557550551
Window papers (baseline)88,671102,845108,798117,271114,833122,027129,649140,330149,628162,470178,755195,978206,307211,540217,656225,949230,311226,813226,801231,348243,835258,777269,536277,532278,967292,920
Median OJR0.350.2620.2650.280.32200.290.32220.370.410.450.4840.580.5730.5690.54730.500.4760.4720.4660.490.510.5500.5180.5230.54690.56

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.