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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Frontiers in Plant Science91
2 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture87
3 Global Change Biology85
- Plants-Basel85
5 Cell Host & Microbe82
6 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety73
- New Phytologist73
8 Agronomy-Basel70
- Molecular Plant70
10 Industrial Crops and Products68
11 Agriculture-Basel67
12 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry66
13 Nature Ecology & Evolution65
14 Phytomedicine64
- Plant Cell64
16 Journal of Ethnopharmacology61
17 Trends in Plant Science60
18 Marine Pollution Bulletin59
19 Drugs58
- Landscape and Urban Planning58
21 Trends in Ecology & Evolution57
22 ISME Journal55
- Toxics55
24 Agricultural Water Management54
- Ecological Informatics54
26 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment53
- Plant Physiology53
28 Journal of Integrative Plant Biology52
- Journal of Fungi52
- Plant Biotechnology Journal52
- Animals52
32 Aquaculture51
33 Plant Journal50
- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry50
35 Environmental Health Perspectives49
- Fertility and Sterility49
- Food and Chemical Toxicology49
38 Fish & Shellfish Immunology48
- Frontiers in Marine Science48
- Ecological Economics48
- Postharvest Biology and Technology48
42 Field Crops Research47
- Journal of Experimental Botany47
- Water Resources Research47
- Ecology Letters47
- Scientia Horticulturae47
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology47
48 Horticulturae46
- Toxins46
- Plant Cell and Environment46
51 Journal of Dairy Science45
52 Frontiers in Veterinary Science44
- Environmental and Experimental Botany44
54 Chemico-Biological Interactions43
- BMC Plant Biology43
- Archives of Toxicology43
57 Current Opinion in Plant Biology42
- Annual Review Plant Biology42
59 Journal of Plant Growth Regulation41
- Poultry Science41
- Biological Conservation41
- Plant and Soil41
- Biosystems Engineering41
64 Methods in Ecology and Evolution40
- Agricultural Systems40
66 Global Ecology and Biogeography39
- European Journal of Agronomy39
- Crop Journal39
- South African Journal of Botany39
- Animal Nutrition39
- Human Reproduction39
72 Ecological Engineering38
- Human Reproduction Update38
- Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology38
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases38
76 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution37
- Inflammopharmacology37
- Molecular Ecology37
79 Toxicology36
- Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology36
- Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture36
- Phytopathology36
83 Precision Agriculture35
- Aquatic Toxicology35
- Ecosystem Services35
- Journal of Integrative Agriculture35
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development35
- Molecular Ecology Resources35
- Parasites & Vectors35
90 Ecology34
- Plant Science34
- Animal34
- Malaria Journal34
- Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition34
- Journal of Ecology34
- Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease34
97 Diversity-Basel33
- Functional Ecology33
- Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology33
- Pest Management Science33
101 Planta32
- Plant Phenomics32
- Ecology and Evolution32
- Conservation Biology32
- Infectious Diseases of Poverty32
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology32
- Journal of Plant Physiology32
- Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology32
109 Horticultural Plant Journal31
- Ecosphere31
- People and Nature31
- Journal of Applied Ecology31
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences31
- Annual Review of Marine Science31
- Particle and Fibre Toxicology31
- Physiologia Plantarum31
117 Frontiers in Forests and Global Change30
- Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology30
- Plant Cell Reports30
- Ecological Applications30
- Ecological Modelling30
- Chemical Research in Toxicology30
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology30
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics30
- Phytochemistry30
- Plant Growth Regulation30
- Plant Methods30
128 Ecography29
- Reproductive Biomedicine Online29
- Biogeosciences29
- Molecular Plant Pathology29
- Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology29
- Trends in Parasitology29
- Phytochemistry Reviews29
- Pharmaceutical Biology29
136 Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry28
- Journal of Thermal Biology28
- Journal of Ovarian Research28
- Veterinary Sciences28
- Current Opinion in Insect Science28
- Environmental Toxicology28
- Fishes28
143 Harmful Algae27
- Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture27
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology27
- Fire-Switzerland27
- Transboundary and Emerging Diseases27
- Marine Environmental Research27
- Plant and Cell Physiology27
- BMC Veterinary Research27
- Landscape Ecology27
- Limnology and Oceanography27
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment27
- Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics27
- Journal of Natural Products27
- Rhizosphere27
- Microbial Ecology27
- Neurotoxicology27
159 Journal of Animal Ecology26
- Toxicological Sciences26
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics26
- Diversity and Distributions26
- Drug Safety26
- Global Change Biology Bioenergy26
- Conservation Letters26
- Journal of Applied Phycology26
- Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology26
- ICES Journal of Marine Science26
- Plant Disease26
- Annals of Botany26
- Annual Review of Phytopathology26
172 Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science25
- Journal of Animal Science25
- Journal of Biogeography25
- Tissue & Cell25
- Toxicon25
- Reproductive Sciences25
- Animal Feed Science and Technology25
- Cell Biology and Toxicology25
- Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases25
- Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology25
- Biodiversity and Conservation25
183 Zoological Research24
- Theriogenology24
- Placenta24
- Plant Diversity24
- Plant Genome24
- Acta Tropica24
- Gesunde Pflanzen24
- Global Ecology and Conservation24
- Evolution24
- Hydrobiologia24
- Rice24
- Agriculture and Human Values24
- Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions24
196 Crop Protection23
- Fungal Diversity23
- Ecological Monographs23
- Ecology and Society23
- Human Reproduction Open23
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