New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Plant & Animal Science

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(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 Average citations
1 Fungal Diversity52.778
2 Annual Review Plant Biology46.741
3 Horticulture Research38.000
4 Human Reproduction Update28.981
5 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics26.941
6 Cell Host & Microbe25.760
7 Molecular Plant25.292
8 Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology24.068
9 Annual Review of Marine Science23.973
10 Drugs22.184
11 Landscape and Urban Planning20.384
12 Trends in Ecology & Evolution18.291
13 Global Change Biology18.029
14 Trends in Plant Science17.379
15 Particle and Fibre Toxicology17.343
16 Annual Review of Phytopathology17.265
17 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture15.747
18 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences15.736
19 Plant Cell15.594
20 ISME Journal15.381
21 Mycosphere15.217
22 Current Opinion in Plant Biology15.145
23 Cell Biology and Toxicology14.834
24 Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews14.319
25 International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology14.169
26 Agronomy for Sustainable Development14.036
27 Ecosystem Services14.022
28 Nature Ecology & Evolution13.911
29 Journal of Integrative Plant Biology13.766
30 New Phytologist13.385
31 Ecological Monographs13.356
32 Human Reproduction Open13.241
33 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment13.213
34 Ecology Letters12.798
35 Phytomedicine12.649
36 Ecological Economics12.563
37 Animal Nutrition12.521
38 Ecological Informatics12.503
39 Brain Structure & Function12.373
40 Postharvest Biology and Technology12.146
41 Phytopathology12.133
42 Plant Biotechnology Journal12.077
43 Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences11.970
44 Agricultural Water Management11.680
45 Animal Health Research Reviews11.606
46 Field Crops Research11.597
47 Environmental Health Perspectives11.474
48 Precision Agriculture11.386
49 Crop Journal11.325
50 Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology11.128
51 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety11.077
52 Industrial Crops and Products11.059
53 Agricultural Systems10.855
54 Biosystems Engineering10.798
55 Pharmaceutical Biology10.699
56 Infectious Diseases of Poverty10.637
57 Archives of Toxicology10.628
58 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology10.603
59 Methods in Ecology and Evolution10.467
60 Plant Physiology10.293
61 Fungal Biology Reviews10.214
62 Global Ecology and Biogeography10.200
63 Journal of Experimental Botany10.015
64 Environmental and Experimental Botany9.987
65 Marine Pollution Bulletin9.932
66 Plant Phenomics9.413
67 Landscape Ecology9.342
68 Journal of Ethnopharmacology9.341
69 Frontiers in Plant Science9.292
70 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry9.150
71 Chemico-Biological Interactions9.134
72 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry9.123
73 Plant Journal9.070
74 Toxicology9.042
75 Ecological Applications9.034
76 Water Resources Research9.015
77 Molecular Ecology Resources8.997
78 European Journal of Agronomy8.964
79 Ecological Engineering8.854
80 Ecography8.789
81 Plant Diversity8.719
82 Conservation Letters8.627
83 Aquaculture8.546
84 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology8.544
85 Gm Crops & Food-Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain8.540
86 Current Opinion in Insect Science8.514
87 Scientia Horticulturae8.429
88 Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology8.366
89 Fish & Shellfish Immunology8.355
90 Rice8.304
91 Microbial Ecology8.272
92 Plant Methods8.243
93 Journal of Plant Physiology8.184
94 Phytochemistry Reviews8.106
95 Toxins8.086
96 Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture8.071
97 Journal of Fungi8.048
98 Plant Science8.037
99 Harmful Algae7.972
100 Gesunde Pflanzen7.943
101 Functional Ecology7.893
102 Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences7.851
103 Critical Reviews in Toxicology7.848
104 Biological Conservation7.814
105 Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology7.813
106 Inflammopharmacology7.810
107 Journal of Ecology7.774
108 Annals of Agricultural Sciences7.770
109 Neurotoxicology7.753
110 Fire Ecology7.750
111 Journal of Plant Interactions7.731
112 Plant Cell and Environment7.714
113 Rice Science7.711
114 Molecular Plant Pathology7.687
115 Plants-Basel7.657
116 Aquatic Toxicology7.589
117 Horticultural Plant Journal7.556
118 Journal of Applied Ecology7.522
119 Toxics7.488
120 Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology7.449
121 Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research7.430
122 Molecular Ecology7.398
123 Basic and Applied Ecology7.267
124 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine7.247
125 Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation7.238
126 Plant Growth Regulation7.220
127 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment7.212
128 Animal7.148
129 International Journal for Parasitology-Drugs and Drug Resistance7.144
130 Drug Safety7.132
131 Limnology and Oceanography Letters7.068
132 Planta7.021
133 Photosynthesis Research6.962
134 Toxicological Sciences6.945
135 Plant Molecular Biology6.921
136 Theoretical and Applied Genetics6.904
137 Phytochemistry6.893
138 Plant and Cell Physiology6.877
139 People and Nature6.839
140 Cladistics6.827
141 Plant Pathology Journal6.802
142 Journal of Dairy Science6.788
143 Agronomy-Basel6.744
144 Heredity6.728
145 Mutagenesis6.720
146 Animal Frontiers6.709
147 Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants6.672
148 Agriculture-Basel6.665
149 Journal of Ovarian Research6.657
150 Conservation Biology6.651
151 Ecological Processes6.644
152 Food and Chemical Toxicology6.635
153 BMC Plant Biology6.604
154 Nanotoxicology6.602
155 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions6.555
156 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases6.541
157 Journal of Plant Growth Regulation6.534
158 Trends in Parasitology6.526
159 Journal of Land Use Science6.516
160 Plant Biology6.503
161 Global Change Biology Bioenergy6.492
162 International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability6.480
163 Biogeosciences6.468
164 Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases6.466
165 Veterinary Quarterly6.464
166 Ecology6.428
167 Diversity and Distributions6.424
168 Rhizosphere6.403
169 Plant Cell Reports6.350
170 Malaria Journal6.348
171 Environmental Toxicology6.336
172 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology6.298
173 Human & Experimental Toxicology6.291
174 Chemical Research in Toxicology6.267
175 Journal of Evolutionary Biology6.266
176 Journal of Integrative Agriculture6.251
177 Parasites & Vectors6.233
178 International Journal for Parasitology6.165
179 Frontiers in Forests and Global Change6.162
180 Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries6.159
181 Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy6.132
182 Transboundary and Emerging Diseases6.037
183 Journal of Natural Products6.032
184 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution6.011
185 Poultry Science5.998
186 Plant Genome5.993
187 Mycorrhiza5.966
188 DNA Repair5.954
189 Frontiers in Marine Science5.922
190 Pathogens and Global Health5.889
191 Pest Management Science5.874
192 Botanical Studies5.852
193 Outlook on Agriculture5.840
194 Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture5.837
195 Reproductive Medicine and Biology5.794
196 Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology5.789
197 Plant and Soil5.769
198 ICES Journal of Marine Science5.759
199 World Mycotoxin Journal5.736
200 South African Journal of Botany5.724
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