New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Plant & Animal Science

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Frontiers in Plant Science101
2 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture91
3 Plants-Basel89
4 Global Change Biology86
5 Cell Host & Microbe80
6 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety75
7 New Phytologist74
8 Agriculture-Basel72
- Agronomy-Basel72
10 Industrial Crops and Products71
- Phytomedicine71
12 Nature Ecology & Evolution68
13 Molecular Plant67
14 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry66
15 Plant Cell65
16 Landscape and Urban Planning61
17 Journal of Ethnopharmacology60
- Toxics60
- Trends in Plant Science60
20 Ecological Informatics59
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution59
22 Marine Pollution Bulletin58
- ISME Journal58
24 Drugs57
25 Plant Physiology56
- Animals56
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment56
28 Agricultural Water Management55
- Journal of Fungi55
30 Plant Biotechnology Journal54
31 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry53
32 Field Crops Research52
- Journal of Integrative Plant Biology52
- Water Resources Research52
35 Frontiers in Marine Science50
36 Plant Journal49
- Ecological Economics49
- Environmental Health Perspectives49
- Fertility and Sterility49
40 Journal of Experimental Botany48
- Postharvest Biology and Technology48
42 Plant Cell and Environment47
- Ecology Letters47
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology47
45 Toxins46
- Scientia Horticulturae46
- Horticulturae46
48 Frontiers in Veterinary Science45
- Chemico-Biological Interactions45
- BMC Plant Biology45
- Food and Chemical Toxicology45
- Aquaculture45
53 Fish & Shellfish Immunology44
- Current Opinion in Plant Biology44
55 Biosystems Engineering43
56 Journal of Dairy Science42
- Biological Conservation42
- Environmental and Experimental Botany42
59 European Journal of Agronomy41
- Archives of Toxicology41
- Animal Nutrition41
62 Crop Journal40
- Poultry Science40
- Journal of Plant Growth Regulation40
- Agricultural Systems40
66 Human Reproduction39
- Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology39
- South African Journal of Botany39
69 Methods in Ecology and Evolution38
- Human Reproduction Update38
- Inflammopharmacology38
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development38
73 Phytopathology37
- Plant and Soil37
- Global Ecology and Biogeography37
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases37
- Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture37
- Annual Review Plant Biology37
79 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution36
- Molecular Ecology36
- Journal of Integrative Agriculture36
- Plant Science36
- Aquatic Toxicology36
84 Parasites & Vectors35
- Ecology35
- Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease35
- Ecosystem Services35
- Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology35
- Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition35
- Journal of Ecology35
91 Molecular Ecology Resources34
- Ecological Engineering34
- Malaria Journal34
- Planta34
- Ecology and Evolution34
- Toxicology34
- Precision Agriculture34
- Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology34
99 Pest Management Science33
- Diversity-Basel33
- Infectious Diseases of Poverty33
- Plant Cell Reports33
- Functional Ecology33
- Conservation Biology33
105 Plant Methods32
- Physiologia Plantarum32
- Horticultural Plant Journal32
- Plant Phenomics32
- People and Nature32
- Fishes32
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology32
- Journal of Applied Ecology32
- Animal32
114 Particle and Fibre Toxicology31
- Phytochemistry31
- Fire-Switzerland31
- Journal of Ovarian Research31
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences31
- Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology31
- Chemical Research in Toxicology31
- Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology31
- Biogeosciences31
123 Plant Growth Regulation30
- Microbial Ecology30
- Ecography30
- Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture30
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change30
- Trends in Parasitology30
- Ecological Applications30
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology30
- Journal of Plant Physiology30
- Reproductive Biomedicine Online30
133 Ecosphere29
- Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology29
- Rhizosphere29
- Annals of Botany29
- Marine Environmental Research29
- Plant and Cell Physiology29
- Molecular Plant Pathology29
- Ecological Modelling29
- Environmental Toxicology29
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics29
143 Pharmaceutical Biology28
- Phytochemistry Reviews28
- Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry28
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics28
- Annual Review of Phytopathology28
- Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology28
- Veterinary Sciences28
150 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology27
- Journal of Animal Ecology27
- Journal of Biogeography27
- Landscape Ecology27
- Drug Safety27
- Journal of Applied Phycology27
- Toxicological Sciences27
- BMC Veterinary Research27
158 Neurotoxicology26
- Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology26
- Journal of Animal Science26
- Journal of Thermal Biology26
- ICES Journal of Marine Science26
- Plant Genome26
- Limnology and Oceanography26
- Fire Ecology26
- Current Opinion in Insect Science26
- Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics26
- Tissue & Cell26
169 Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science25
- Crop Protection25
- Hydrobiologia25
- Annual Review of Marine Science25
- Global Change Biology Bioenergy25
- Global Ecology and Conservation25
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment25
- Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine25
- Toxicon25
- Reproductive Sciences25
- Agriculture and Human Values25
- Animal Feed Science and Technology25
181 Mycosphere24
- Plant Disease24
- Harmful Algae24
- Ecological Monographs24
- European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology24
- Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases24
- Rice24
- Acta Tropica24
- Basic and Applied Ecology24
- Biodiversity and Conservation24
- Animal Frontiers24
- Diversity and Distributions24
- Cogent Food & Agriculture24
- Evolution24
- Conservation Letters24
- Journal of Natural Products24
- Journal of Reproductive Immunology24
- Theriogenology24
- Transboundary and Emerging Diseases24
- Rice Science24
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