Plant Sciences: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2025
1	Molecular Plant	ca. 32.7
2	Annual Review Plant Biology	ca. 26.4
3	Trends in Plant Science	ca. 21.2
4	Plant Cell	ca. 13.5
5	Annual Review of Phytopathology	ca. 13.2
6	Plant Biotechnology Journal	ca. 12.8
7	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	ca. 12.5
8	Phytomedicine	ca. 11.3
9	Horticulture Research	ca. 9.5
10	New Phytologist	ca. 8.7
11	Plant Physiology	ca. 8.2
-	Plant Phenomics	ca. 8.2
13	Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences	ca. 7.5
14	Rice Science	ca. 7.4
15	Current Opinion in Plant Biology	ca. 7.3
16	Plant Cell and Environment	ca. 6.9
17	Journal of Ethnopharmacology	ca. 6.8
18	Journal of Experimental Botany	ca. 6.5
19	Phytochemistry Reviews	ca. 6.3
-	Journal of Ecology	ca. 6.3
21	Plant Journal	ca. 6.2
-	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry	ca. 6.2
23	Pharmaceutical Biology	ca. 6
24	Frontiers in Plant Science	ca. 5.9
25	BMC Plant Biology	ca. 5.6
26	Plant Cell Reports	ca. 5.3
27	Plant Methods	ca. 5.2
28	Environmental and Experimental Botany	ca. 5.1
-	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine	ca. 5.1
30	Molecular Plant Pathology	ca. 5
31	Plant and Soil	ca. 4.8
-	Journal of Plant Physiology	ca. 4.8
33	Plant and Cell Physiology	ca. 4.7
-	Plants-Basel	ca. 4.7
35	Plant Science	ca. 4.6
36	Journal of Plant Ecology	ca. 4.5
37	Planta	ca. 4.4
38	Plant Genome	ca. 4.3
-	Gm Crops & Food-Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain	ca. 4.3
40	Seed Science and Technology	ca. 4.2
-	Journal of Plant Growth Regulation	ca. 4.2
42	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	ca. 4.1
-	Agronomy-Basel	ca. 4.1
-	Annals of Botany	ca. 4.1
45	Physiologia Plantarum	ca. 4
-	Plant Growth Regulation	ca. 4
-	Mycorrhiza	ca. 4
-	Plants People Planet	ca. 4
49	Rhizosphere	ca. 3.9
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	ca. 3.9

-	Alpine Botany	ca. 3.9
52	Photosynthesis Research	ca. 3.8
53	Journal of Natural Products	ca. 3.7
-	Applied Vegetation Science	ca. 3.7
-	Plant Molecular Biology	ca. 3.7
56	Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants	ca. 3.6
-	Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	ca. 3.6
-	Molecular Breeding	ca. 3.6
-	Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology	ca. 3.6
-	Plant Foods for Human Nutrition	ca. 3.6
61	Applications in Plant Sciences	ca. 3.5
62	Phytopathology	ca. 3.4
-	Plant Biology	ca. 3.4
-	New Zealand Journal of Botany	ca. 3.4
-	Phytochemistry	ca. 3.4
-	Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants	ca. 3.4
67	Botanical Studies	ca. 3.3
-	Algae	ca. 3.3
-	Journal of Plant Interactions	ca. 3.3
-	Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science	ca. 3.3
-	Journal of Vegetation Science	ca. 3.3
72	Journal of Systematics and Evolution	ca. 3.2
73	AoB Plants	ca. 3.1
-	South African Journal of Botany	ca. 3.1
75	Phytochemical Analysis	ca. 2.9
-	Functional Plant Biology	ca. 2.9
77	Plant Direct	ca. 2.8
-	Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection	ca. 2.8
-	Phytobiomes Journal	ca. 2.8
-	Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture	ca. 2.8
-	Plant Disease	ca. 2.8
-	Plant Pathology	ca. 2.8
-	American Journal of Botany	ca. 2.8
84	Protoplasma	ca. 2.7
-	Journal of Plant Biology	ca. 2.7
86	Plant Pathology Journal	ca. 2.6
-	Plant Reproduction	ca. 2.6
88	Vegetation History and Archaeobotany	ca. 2.5
-	Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics	ca. 2.5
-	Journal of Berry Research	ca. 2.5
91	Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology	ca. 2.4
-	Weed Science	ca. 2.4
93	Aquatic Botany	ca. 2.3
-	Cryptogamie Algologie	ca. 2.3
-	Weed Research	ca. 2.3
-	Acta Physiologiae Plantarum	ca. 2.3
97	Flora	ca. 2.2
-	European Journal of Phycology	ca. 2.2
-	In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant	ca. 2.2
-	Journal of Plant Research	ca. 2.2
101	Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society	ca. 2.1
-	European Journal of Plant Pathology	ca. 2.1
-	Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants	ca. 2.1
-	Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	ca. 2.1
-	Journal of Plant Pathology	ca. 2.1
-	Planta Medica	ca. 2.1
-	Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding	ca. 2.1
-	Seed Science Research	ca. 2.1
-	Tropical Plant Biology	ca. 2.1
110	Photosynthetica	ca. 2
-	Plant Molecular Biology Reporter	ca. 2
-	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology	ca. 2
113	Economic Botany	ca. 1.9
-	Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution	ca. 1.9
-	Phycologia	ca. 1.9
-	Taxon	ca. 1.9
117	Plant Biotechnology Reports	ca. 1.8
-	Plant Ecology	ca. 1.8
-	Plant Ecology & Diversity	ca. 1.8
-	Euphytica	ca. 1.8
-	Journal of Plant Nutrition	ca. 1.8
-	Australian Systematic Botany	ca. 1.8
-	Plant Biosystems	ca. 1.8
-	Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology	ca. 1.8
-	International Journal of Plant Sciences	ca. 1.8
126	Palynology	ca. 1.7
-	Phytochemistry Letters	ca. 1.7
-	Canadian Journal of Plant Science	ca. 1.7
-	Plant Systematics and Evolution	ca. 1.7
-	Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca	ca. 1.7
-	Breeding Science	ca. 1.7
-	Plant Breeding	ca. 1.7
-	Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis	ca. 1.7
-	Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology	ca. 1.7
-	Weed Biology and Management	ca. 1.7
-	Willdenowia	ca. 1.7
137	Journal of Asian Natural Products Research	ca. 1.6
-	Phytokeys	ca. 1.6
-	Phytoparasitica	ca. 1.6
-	Botanica Marina	ca. 1.6
-	Acta Amazonica	ca. 1.6
142	Invasive Plant Science and Management	ca. 1.5
-	Weed Technology	ca. 1.5
-	Plant Ecology and Evolution	ca. 1.5
-	European Journal of Taxonomy	ca. 1.5
146	Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden	ca. 1.4
-	Plant Biotechnology	ca. 1.4
-	Records of Natural Products	ca. 1.4
-	Journal of General Plant Pathology	ca. 1.4
-	Botany	ca. 1.4
-	Folia Geobotanica	ca. 1.4
152	Australian Journal of Botany	ca. 1.3
-	Bryologist	ca. 1.3
-	Russian Journal of Plant Physiology	ca. 1.3
-	Acta Botanica Brasilica	ca. 1.3
156	Botany Letters	ca. 1.2
-	Plant Species Biology	ca. 1.2
-	Australasian Plant Pathology	ca. 1.2
-	Phytotaxa	ca. 1.2
-	Journal of Phytopathology	ca. 1.2
-	Lichenologist	ca. 1.2
162	Grana	ca. 1.1
-	Pakistan Journal of Botany	ca. 1.1
-	Botanical Sciences	ca. 1.1
-	Nordic Journal of Botany	ca. 1.1
166	Botanica Serbica	ca. 1
-	Plant Genetic Resources-Characterization and Utilization	ca. 1
-	Plant Protection Science	ca. 1
-	Bothalia	ca. 1
-	Nova Hedwigia	ca. 1
171	Biologia Plantarum	ca. 0.9
-	Phytocoenologia	ca. 0.9
-	Comparative Cytogenetics	ca. 0.9
-	Systematic Botany	ca. 0.9
-	Herzogia	ca. 0.9

-	Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding	ca. 0.9
177	Journal of Plant Registrations	ca. 0.8
178	Bradleya	ca. 0.7
-	Brittonia	ca. 0.7
-	Journal of Bryology	ca. 0.7
-	Kew Bulletin	ca. 0.7
-	Annales Botanici Fennici	ca. 0.7
-	Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy	ca. 0.7
-	Candollea	ca. 0.7
-	Cryptogamie Bryologie	ca. 0.7
186	Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge	ca. 0.6
-	Israel Journal of Plant Sciences	ca. 0.6
-	Boletin de la Sociedad Argentina de Botanica	ca. 0.6
189	Novon	ca. 0.5
-	Caldasia	ca. 0.5
-	Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society	ca. 0.5
-	American Fern Journal	ca. 0.5
-	Blumea	ca. 0.5
194	Bangladesh Journal of Botany	ca. 0.4
-	Acta Biologica Colombiana	ca. 0.4
196	Castanea	ca. 0.3
197	Rhodora	ca. 0.1