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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Frontiers in Plant Science83
2 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture82
- Global Change Biology82
4 Plants-Basel81
5 Cell Host & Microbe78
6 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety73
7 Industrial Crops and Products72
8 Molecular Plant70
- New Phytologist70
10 Agronomy-Basel68
11 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry63
12 Phytomedicine62
13 Plant Cell61
- Nature Ecology & Evolution61
15 Agriculture-Basel60
- Marine Pollution Bulletin60
17 Trends in Plant Science59
18 Journal of Ethnopharmacology58
- Drugs58
20 Trends in Ecology & Evolution57
21 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry56
22 Landscape and Urban Planning55
23 Agricultural Water Management54
24 Journal of Fungi53
- Plant Biotechnology Journal53
26 Ecological Informatics52
- ISME Journal52
- Plant Physiology52
- Animals52
30 Toxics51
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment51
32 Aquaculture50
- Plant Journal50
- Journal of Integrative Plant Biology50
35 Food and Chemical Toxicology49
- Frontiers in Marine Science49
- Environmental Health Perspectives49
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology49
39 Ecological Economics48
- Ecology Letters48
- Fish & Shellfish Immunology48
- Scientia Horticulturae48
43 Fertility and Sterility47
44 Postharvest Biology and Technology46
45 Toxins45
- Journal of Experimental Botany45
- Water Resources Research45
48 Horticulturae44
49 Animal Nutrition43
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution43
- Plant Cell and Environment43
- Poultry Science43
53 Field Crops Research42
54 Environmental and Experimental Botany41
- Current Opinion in Plant Biology41
- Global Ecology and Biogeography41
- Chemico-Biological Interactions41
- BMC Plant Biology41
59 Journal of Dairy Science40
- Frontiers in Veterinary Science40
- Archives of Toxicology40
- Biological Conservation40
- Biosystems Engineering40
64 Agricultural Systems39
65 Human Reproduction Update38
- Ecological Engineering38
- Human Reproduction38
- Plant and Soil38
69 Annual Review Plant Biology37
- South African Journal of Botany37
- Crop Journal37
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases37
73 Journal of Plant Growth Regulation36
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution36
- Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture36
- European Journal of Agronomy36
- Molecular Ecology36
78 Journal of Applied Ecology35
- Animal35
- Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology35
- Inflammopharmacology35
- Toxicology35
83 Ecosystem Services34
- Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology34
- Aquatic Toxicology34
- Molecular Ecology Resources34
- Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition34
88 Functional Ecology33
- Journal of Integrative Agriculture33
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics33
- Plant Science33
- Parasites & Vectors33
93 Conservation Biology32
- Journal of Ecology32
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment32
- Ecology and Evolution32
- Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology32
- Planta32
- Precision Agriculture32
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development32
- Pest Management Science32
- Phytochemistry32
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences32
104 Infectious Diseases of Poverty31
- Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease31
- Ecography31
- Ecology31
- Physiologia Plantarum31
109 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology30
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics30
- Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology30
- Trends in Parasitology30
- Diversity-Basel30
- Horticulture Research30
- Journal of Plant Physiology30
- Malaria Journal30
- Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology30
118 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology29
- Ecological Applications29
- Ecological Modelling29
- Plant Cell Reports29
- Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology29
- Reproductive Biomedicine Online29
- Horticultural Plant Journal29
- Limnology and Oceanography29
- Plant Methods29
- Veterinary Sciences29
128 Current Opinion in Insect Science28
- Environmental Toxicology28
- Chemical Research in Toxicology28
- Biogeosciences28
- People and Nature28
- Journal of Ovarian Research28
- Ecosphere28
- Annual Review of Marine Science28
- Particle and Fibre Toxicology28
- Phytopathology28
- Molecular Plant Pathology28
- Plant Growth Regulation28
- Toxicological Sciences28
141 Journal of Natural Products27
- Plant and Cell Physiology27
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology27
- Fire-Switzerland27
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change27
- Pharmaceutical Biology27
- Phytochemistry Reviews27
- Plant Disease27
- Neurotoxicology27
- Rhizosphere27
- Plant Phenomics27
- Transboundary and Emerging Diseases27
153 Conservation Letters26
- Diversity and Distributions26
- Drug Safety26
- Global Change Biology Bioenergy26
- Journal of Applied Phycology26
- Journal of Thermal Biology26
- Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics26
- Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants26
- Microbial Ecology26
- Plant Biology26
- Harmful Algae26
- Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry26
- Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science26
- Annals of Botany26
167 Fishes25
- ICES Journal of Marine Science25
- Journal of Great Lakes Research25
- DNA Repair25
- Global Ecology and Conservation25
- Cell Biology and Toxicology25
- BMC Veterinary Research25
- Mycoses25
- Plant Molecular Biology25
- Fungal Diversity25
- Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture25
- European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology25
- Landscape Ecology25
- Marine Environmental Research25
181 Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology24
- Evolution24
- International Journal for Parasitology24
- Gesunde Pflanzen24
- Acta Tropica24
- Animal Feed Science and Technology24
- Brain Structure & Function24
- Limnology and Oceanography Letters24
- Placenta24
- Plant Diversity24
- Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases24
- Ecological Monographs24
- Journal of Animal Ecology24
- Journal of Animal Science24
- Basic and Applied Ecology24
- Annual Review of Phytopathology24
- Rice24
- Theriogenology24
- Tissue & Cell24
- Toxicon24
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
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