Plant Sciences: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review Plant Biology	66
2	Molecular Plant	27
3	Annual Review of Phytopathology	25
4	Current Opinion in Plant Biology	19
5	Plant Biotechnology Journal	18
6	Plant Cell	17
7	Trends in Plant Science	16
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	16
-	New Phytologist	16
10	Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences	14
11	Journal of Experimental Botany	12
-	Phytomedicine	12
-	Plant Physiology	12
14	Environmental and Experimental Botany	11
-	Plant Journal	11
16	Journal of Ecology	10
-	Molecular Plant Pathology	10
-	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry	10
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	10
-	Journal of Ethnopharmacology	10
-	Pharmaceutical Biology	10
22	Journal of Plant Physiology	9
-	Plant Cell and Environment	9
-	Frontiers in Plant Science	9
-	Plant Science	9
-	Plant Molecular Biology	9
27	Journal of Plant Interactions	8
-	Plant Methods	8
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	8
-	Mycorrhiza	8
-	Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants	8
-	Phytochemistry Reviews	8
-	BMC Plant Biology	8
-	Planta	8
-	Plant and Cell Physiology	8
-	Plant Cell Reports	8
-	Plant Genome	8
38	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine	7
-	Photosynthesis Research	7
-	Plant and Soil	7
-	Rice Science	7
-	Journal of Natural Products	7
-	Phytochemistry	7
-	Phytopathology	7
-	Plant Biology	7
46	South African Journal of Botany	6
-	Plant Growth Regulation	6
-	Plant Pathology Journal	6
-	Journal of Plant Growth Regulation	6
-	Alpine Botany	6

-	Annals of Botany	6
-	Physiologia Plantarum	6
-	Plant Foods for Human Nutrition	6
-	Functional Plant Biology	6
55	Journal of Phycology	5
-	Journal of Plant Research	5
-	Journal of Systematics and Evolution	5
-	Journal of Vegetation Science	5
-	Algae	5
-	Applied Vegetation Science	5
-	Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology	5
-	Breeding Science	5
-	Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture	5
-	European Journal of Phycology	5
-	In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant	5
-	Journal of Plant Biology	5
-	Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	5
-	Molecular Breeding	5
-	Acta Physiologiae Plantarum	5
-	American Journal of Botany	5
-	Photosynthetica	5
-	AoB Plants	5
-	Aquatic Botany	5
-	Botanical Studies	5
-	Protoplasma	5
76	Journal of Berry Research	4
-	Vegetation History and Archaeobotany	4
-	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology	4
-	Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection	4
-	Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics	4
-	Phytochemical Analysis	4
-	Plant Ecology	4
-	Flora	4
-	Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology	4
-	Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	4
-	Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants	4
-	Tropical Plant Biology	4
-	Weed Science	4
-	Journal of Plant Pathology	4
-	Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society	4
-	Plant Disease	4
-	Euphytica	4
-	European Journal of Plant Pathology	4
-	Plant Pathology	4
-	Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding	4
96	Seed Science Research	3
-	Weed Research	3
-	Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science	3
-	Phycologia	3
-	Australasian Plant Pathology	3
-	Australian Systematic Botany	3
-	Phytochemistry Letters	3
-	Phytoparasitica	3
-	Botany	3
-	Plant Breeding	3
-	Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology	3
-	Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis	3
-	Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding	3
-	Plant Molecular Biology Reporter	3
-	Plant Systematics and Evolution	3
-	International Journal of Plant Sciences	3
-	Seed Science and Technology	3
-	Journal of General Plant Pathology	3
-	Journal of Plant Nutrition	3
-	Brazilian Journal of Botany	3
-	Plant Biotechnology	3
-	Plant Biotechnology Reports	3
-	Cryptogamie Algologie	3
-	Folia Geobotanica	3
-	Plant Protection Science	3
121	Invasive Plant Science and Management	2
-	Russian Journal of Plant Physiology	2
-	Weed Technology	2
-	Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden	2
-	Phytocoenologia	2
-	Botanical Sciences	2
-	Botanica Marina	2
-	Plant Biosystems	2
-	Plant Ecology & Diversity	2
-	Plant Genetic Resources-Characterization and Utilization	2
-	Grana	2
-	Journal of Asian Natural Products Research	2
-	Journal of Bryology	2
-	Systematic Botany	2
-	Willdenowia	2
-	Journal of Plant Registrations	2
-	Acta Amazonica	2
-	Acta Botanica Brasilica	2
-	New Zealand Journal of Botany	2
-	Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca	2
-	Palynology	2
-	Australian Journal of Botany	2
-	Biologia Plantarum	2
-	Phytokeys	2
-	Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany	2
-	Botanica Serbica	2
-	Bothalia	2
-	Canadian Journal of Plant Science	2
-	Comparative Cytogenetics	2
-	Plant Ecology and Evolution	2
-	Economic Botany	2
-	Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution	2
-	Herzogia	2
154	Records of Natural Products	1
-	Israel Journal of Plant Sciences	1
-	Taxon	1
-	Acta Biológica Colombiana	1
-	Lichenologist	1
-	Acta Biologica Colombiana	1
-	Acta Botanica Mexicana	1
-	Nordic Journal of Botany	1
-	Nova Hedwigia	1
-	American Fern Journal	1
-	Pakistan Journal of Botany	1
-	Annales Botanici Fennici	1
-	Blumea	1
-	Boletin de la Sociedad Argentina de Botanica	1
-	Phytotaxa	1
-	Planta Medica	1
-	Bradleya	1
-	Bryologist	1
-	Candollea	1
-	Cryptogamie Bryologie	1
-	Gayana Botanica	1
-	Iheringia Serie Botanica	1

-	Weed Biology and Management	1
-	Journal of Phytopathology	1
-	Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society	1
-	Kew Bulletin	1
-	Bangladesh Journal of Botany	1
-	Brittonia	1
-	Plant Species Biology	1
183	Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge	0
-	Rhodora	0
-	Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy	0
-	Novon	0
-	Caldasia	0
-	Castanea	0