New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Frontiers in Plant Science102
2 Plants-Basel91
3 Global Change Biology86
4 Cell Host & Microbe79
5 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety77
6 New Phytologist74
7 Agriculture-Basel73
- Agronomy-Basel73
- Industrial Crops and Products73
- Phytomedicine73
11 Molecular Plant68
- Nature Ecology & Evolution68
13 Plant Cell65
14 Toxics62
- Journal of Ethnopharmacology62
- Landscape and Urban Planning62
- Trends in Plant Science62
18 Ecological Informatics61
19 Trends in Ecology & Evolution59
20 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment58
- Marine Pollution Bulletin58
22 Animals57
- ISME Journal57
24 Drugs56
- Plant Physiology56
26 Journal of Fungi55
- Plant Biotechnology Journal55
28 Agricultural Water Management54
- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry54
30 Water Resources Research53
- Journal of Integrative Plant Biology53
32 Field Crops Research52
33 Frontiers in Marine Science51
- Fertility and Sterility51
35 Postharvest Biology and Technology50
- Ecological Economics50
37 Plant Journal49
38 Journal of Experimental Botany48
- Environmental Health Perspectives48
- Scientia Horticulturae48
- Plant Cell and Environment48
42 Aquaculture47
- BMC Plant Biology47
- Chemico-Biological Interactions47
45 Horticulturae46
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology46
- Ecology Letters46
48 Toxins45
- Frontiers in Veterinary Science45
50 Biosystems Engineering44
51 Food and Chemical Toxicology43
- Journal of Dairy Science43
- Environmental and Experimental Botany43
54 Current Opinion in Plant Biology42
- Archives of Toxicology42
- Agricultural Systems42
57 Poultry Science41
- Biological Conservation41
- Human Reproduction41
60 Crop Journal40
- Animal Nutrition40
62 Annual Review Plant Biology39
- Journal of Plant Growth Regulation39
- Inflammopharmacology39
65 Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology38
- Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture38
- Human Reproduction Update38
68 Aquatic Toxicology37
- PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases37
- Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition37
- Global Ecology and Biogeography37
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution37
73 Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease36
- Molecular Ecology36
- Toxicology36
- Journal of Ecology36
- Journal of Integrative Agriculture36
- Plant Science36
79 Ecological Engineering35
- Ecology35
- Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology35
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development35
- Ecosystem Services35
- Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology35
85 Fishes34
- Conservation Biology34
- Parasites & Vectors34
- Planta34
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution34
- Ecology and Evolution34
- Precision Agriculture34
- Malaria Journal34
93 Functional Ecology33
- Pest Management Science33
- Physiologia Plantarum33
- Plant Phenomics33
- Horticultural Plant Journal33
- Fire-Switzerland33
- People and Nature33
- Molecular Ecology Resources33
- Plant and Soil33
102 Chemical Research in Toxicology32
- Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology32
- Particle and Fibre Toxicology32
- Infectious Diseases of Poverty32
- Plant Cell Reports32
- Diversity-Basel32
- Fish & Shellfish Immunology32
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology32
- Journal of Ovarian Research32
- Plant Methods32
112 Biogeosciences31
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics31
- Trends in Parasitology31
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences31
- Microbial Ecology31
- Journal of Applied Ecology31
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change31
- Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture31
- Reproductive Biomedicine Online31
121 Molecular Plant Pathology30
- Journal of Plant Physiology30
- Ecological Applications30
- Ecological Modelling30
- Animal30
- Environmental Toxicology30
- Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology30
- Rhizosphere30
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology30
130 Ecosphere29
- Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry29
- Phytochemistry29
- Phytochemistry Reviews29
- Annals of Botany29
- Annual Review of Phytopathology29
- Marine Environmental Research29
- Plant Growth Regulation29
138 Ecography28
- BMC Veterinary Research28
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics28
- Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology28
- Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology28
- Pharmaceutical Biology28
- Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology28
- Plant and Cell Physiology28
- Landscape Ecology28
147 Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science27
- Veterinary Sciences27
- Journal of Applied Phycology27
- Toxicological Sciences27
- Journal of Thermal Biology27
152 Fire Ecology26
- Plant Genome26
- Neurotoxicology26
- Current Opinion in Insect Science26
- Agriculture and Human Values26
- Biodiversity and Conservation26
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology26
- Journal of Biogeography26
- Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine26
- Limnology and Oceanography26
- Journal of Animal Ecology26
163 Diversity and Distributions25
- Global Change Biology Bioenergy25
- Hydrobiologia25
- ICES Journal of Marine Science25
- Animal Frontiers25
- Evolution25
- Cogent Food & Agriculture25
- Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases25
- Rice Science25
- Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics25
- Harmful Algae25
- Annual Review of Marine Science25
- Theriogenology25
- Tissue & Cell25
- Toxicon25
- Reproductive Sciences25
- Plant Disease25
- Mycosphere25
181 Crop Protection24
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment24
- Global Ecology and Conservation24
- Ecological Monographs24
- Veterinary Medicine and Science24
- Zoological Research24
- Plants People Planet24
- Plant Diversity24
- Crop Science24
- Developmental and Comparative Immunology24
- Animal Feed Science and Technology24
- European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology24
- Transboundary and Emerging Diseases24
- Rice24
195 Acta Tropica23
- Toxicology in Vitro23
- Reproduction23
- Reproductive Toxicology23
- Limnology and Oceanography Letters23
- Placenta23
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