Plant Sciences: Journal Rankings

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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Frontiers in Plant Science	85
2	Plants-Basel	81
3	New Phytologist	72
4	Molecular Plant	70
5	Agronomy-Basel	65
6	Phytomedicine	62
7	Plant Cell	60
8	Journal of Ethnopharmacology	59
-	Trends in Plant Science	59
10	Plant Biotechnology Journal	53
11	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry	52
-	Plant Physiology	52
13	Plant Journal	51
14	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	50
15	Journal of Experimental Botany	46
16	Plant Cell and Environment	44
17	Current Opinion in Plant Biology	42
-	Environmental and Experimental Botany	42
19	BMC Plant Biology	41
20	Annual Review Plant Biology	39
21	Plant and Soil	38
-	Crop Journal	38
23	South African Journal of Botany	36
-	Journal of Plant Growth Regulation	36
-	Phytopathology	36
26	Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	35
27	Plant Science	34
28	Journal of Ecology	33
29	Planta	32
-	Phytochemistry	32
31	Physiologia Plantarum	31
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	31
33	Plant Methods	30
-	Journal of Plant Physiology	30
35	Plant Cell Reports	29
-	Plant Growth Regulation	29
-	Horticultural Plant Journal	29
38	Horticulture Research	28
-	Plant Phenomics	28
-	Phytochemistry Reviews	28
41	Pharmaceutical Biology	27
-	Plant and Cell Physiology	27
-	Plant Disease	27
-	Journal of Natural Products	27
-	Molecular Plant Pathology	27
46	Plant Biology	26
-	Annals of Botany	26
48	Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants	25
-	Rhizosphere	25
50	Plant Diversity	24

-	Plant Molecular Biology	24
-	Annual Review of Phytopathology	24
53	Plant Genome	23
-	Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology	23
55	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine	22
-	Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection	22
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	22
-	Rice Science	22
59	Gm Crops & Food-Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain	20
-	Plants People Planet	20
-	Functional Plant Biology	20
-	American Journal of Botany	20
63	Phytopathology Research	19
-	Plant Foods for Human Nutrition	19
-	Plant Pathology	19
-	Journal of Phycology	19
-	Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture	19
68	European Journal of Plant Pathology	18
-	Journal of Plant Nutrition	18
-	Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science	18
71	Plant Direct	17
-	Protoplasma	17
-	Acta Physiologiae Plantarum	17
-	Photosynthesis Research	17
-	Journal of Plant Interactions	17
76	Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis	16
-	Molecular Breeding	16
-	Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution	16
-	Plant Pathology Journal	16
-	Journal of Systematics and Evolution	16
81	Botanical Studies	15
-	Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences	15
-	Flora	15
-	Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants	15
-	Taxon	15
-	Applications in Plant Sciences	15
-	Aquatic Botany	15
-	AoB Plants	15
-	Applied Vegetation Science	15
90	Phytochemical Analysis	14
-	Phytochemistry Letters	14
-	Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology	14
-	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology	14
-	Mycorrhiza	14
-	Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca	14
-	Weed Science	14
-	Phytobiomes Journal	14
-	Phytokeys	14
-	Journal of Vegetation Science	14
100	Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society	13
-	Plant Biotechnology Reports	13
-	Euphytica	13
-	In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant	13
-	Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics	13
-	Brazilian Journal of Botany	13
-	Planta Medica	13
-	Plant Ecology	13
-	Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants	13
-	Journal of Plant Research	13
-	Weed Research	13
111	Breeding Science	12
-	Russian Journal of Plant Physiology	12
-	Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology	12
-	Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany	12
-	Plant Breeding	12
-	Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	12
-	Weed Technology	12
118	Photosynthetica	11
-	Phytoparasitica	11
-	Plant Reproduction	11
-	Phycologia	11
-	Botanica Marina	11
-	Canadian Journal of Plant Science	11
-	Plant Biosystems	11
-	Journal of Phytopathology	11
-	Journal of Plant Biology	11
127	Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology	10
-	Kew Bulletin	10
-	Algae	10
-	Phytotaxa	10
-	European Journal of Taxonomy	10
-	Journal of General Plant Pathology	10
-	Seed Science and Technology	10
-	Pakistan Journal of Botany	10
-	Vegetation History and Archaeobotany	10
136	Botany Letters	9
-	Plant Biotechnology	9
-	International Journal of Plant Sciences	9
-	Journal of Plant Pathology	9
-	Botany	9
-	Plant Molecular Biology Reporter	9
-	Plant Protection Science	9
-	Systematic Botany	9
-	Acta Botanica Mexicana	9
145	Palynology	8
-	Australian Journal of Botany	8
-	Economic Botany	8
-	Seed Science Research	8
-	Acta Amazonica	8
-	New Zealand Journal of Botany	8
-	Botanical Sciences	8
-	European Journal of Phycology	8
-	Journal of Asian Natural Products Research	8
-	Plant Systematics and Evolution	8
-	Alpine Botany	8
-	Nordic Journal of Botany	8
-	Australasian Plant Pathology	8
158	Bangladesh Journal of Botany	7
-	Botanica Serbica	7
-	Journal of Plant Registrations	7
-	Acta Botanica Brasilica	7
-	Tropical Plant Biology	7
-	Australian Systematic Botany	7
-	Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding	7
-	Plant Genetic Resources-Characterization and Utilization	7
-	Grana	7
-	Plant Species Biology	7
-	Journal of Bryology	7
-	Lichenologist	7
-	Nova Hedwigia	7
171	Biologia Plantarum	6
-	Bryologist	6
-	Plant Ecology and Evolution	6
-	Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding	6
-	Journal of Berry Research	6

-	Annales Botanici Fennici	6
-	Weed Biology and Management	6
-	Willdenowia	6
-	Comparative Cytogenetics	6
-	Plant Ecology & Diversity	6
-	Folia Geobotanica	6
-	Invasive Plant Science and Management	6
-	Records of Natural Products	6
184	Cryptogamie Algologie	5
-	Herzogia	5
186	Phytocoenologia	4
-	Rhodora	4
-	Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society	4
-	Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden	4
-	Novon	4
-	Blumea	4
-	Boletin de la Sociedad Argentina de Botanica	4
-	Brittonia	4
-	Caldasia	4
-	Israel Journal of Plant Sciences	4
-	Acta Biologica Colombiana	4
-	Acta Biológica Colombiana	4
198	Bradleya	3
-	Candollea	3
-	American Fern Journal	3
-	Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy	3
-	Bothalia	3
-	Cryptogamie Bryologie	3
-	Iheringia Serie Botanica	3
-	Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge	3
206	Gayana Botanica	2
-	Castanea	2
208	Journal of Plant Ecology	1