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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Frontiers in Plant Science100
2 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture90
3 Plants-Basel88
4 Global Change Biology87
5 Cell Host & Microbe80
6 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety74
- New Phytologist74
8 Agriculture-Basel71
9 Phytomedicine70
- Industrial Crops and Products70
- Agronomy-Basel70
12 Molecular Plant66
- Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry66
- Nature Ecology & Evolution66
15 Plant Cell65
16 Toxics60
- Journal of Ethnopharmacology60
- Trends in Plant Science60
- Landscape and Urban Planning60
20 Marine Pollution Bulletin59
- Ecological Informatics59
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution59
23 ISME Journal57
24 Animals56
- Drugs56
26 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment55
- Agricultural Water Management55
- Plant Physiology55
29 Journal of Fungi54
- Plant Biotechnology Journal54
31 Journal of Integrative Plant Biology53
32 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry52
33 Ecological Economics51
- Frontiers in Marine Science51
- Water Resources Research51
- Field Crops Research51
37 Plant Journal50
- Journal of Experimental Botany50
39 Postharvest Biology and Technology48
- Environmental Health Perspectives48
- Fertility and Sterility48
42 Annual Review Plant Biology47
- Food and Chemical Toxicology47
- Plant Cell and Environment47
45 Scientia Horticulturae46
- Toxins46
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology46
- Ecology Letters46
- Frontiers in Veterinary Science46
50 Aquaculture45
- Horticulturae45
52 BMC Plant Biology44
- Chemico-Biological Interactions44
- Fish & Shellfish Immunology44
55 Journal of Dairy Science43
- Current Opinion in Plant Biology43
57 Environmental and Experimental Botany42
- Biological Conservation42
59 Animal Nutrition41
- Biosystems Engineering41
- European Journal of Agronomy41
62 Poultry Science40
- Agricultural Systems40
- Journal of Plant Growth Regulation40
- Human Reproduction40
- South African Journal of Botany40
- Archives of Toxicology40
- Crop Journal40
69 Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology39
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution39
- Human Reproduction Update39
72 Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture38
- Inflammopharmacology38
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development38
- Plant and Soil38
76 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases37
- Phytopathology37
- Global Ecology and Biogeography37
79 Journal of Ecology36
- Aquatic Toxicology36
- Journal of Integrative Agriculture36
- Molecular Ecology36
- Ecology36
84 Malaria Journal35
- Ecology and Evolution35
- Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology35
- Plant Science35
- Infectious Diseases of Poverty35
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution35
90 Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition34
- Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease34
- Planta34
- Ecosystem Services34
- Toxicology34
- Pest Management Science34
- Molecular Ecology Resources34
- Parasites & Vectors34
- Ecological Engineering34
99 Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology33
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology33
- Plant Cell Reports33
- Conservation Biology33
- Functional Ecology33
- Precision Agriculture33
- Diversity-Basel33
106 Animal32
- Journal of Applied Ecology32
- People and Nature32
- Fishes32
- Horticultural Plant Journal32
111 Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology31
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences31
- Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology31
- Ecological Applications31
- Chemical Research in Toxicology31
- Journal of Ovarian Research31
- Physiologia Plantarum31
- Phytochemistry31
- Plant Methods31
- Particle and Fibre Toxicology31
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change31
122 Journal of Plant Physiology30
- Biogeosciences30
- Plant Phenomics30
- Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology30
- Reproductive Biomedicine Online30
- Plant Growth Regulation30
- Ecography30
- Fire-Switzerland30
130 Rhizosphere29
- Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology29
- Trends in Parasitology29
- Plant and Cell Physiology29
- Molecular Plant Pathology29
- Drug Safety29
- Ecological Modelling29
- Environmental Toxicology29
- Pharmaceutical Biology29
- Microbial Ecology29
- Ecosphere29
- Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture29
142 Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics28
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics28
- Marine Environmental Research28
- Veterinary Sciences28
- Annual Review of Phytopathology28
- Phytochemistry Reviews28
148 Journal of Applied Phycology27
- Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology27
- Landscape Ecology27
- Limnology and Oceanography27
- Journal of Animal Ecology27
- Journal of Biogeography27
- Annals of Botany27
- Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology27
- Neurotoxicology27
- Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry27
158 BMC Veterinary Research26
- Plant Genome26
- Current Opinion in Insect Science26
- Journal of Animal Science26
- Journal of Thermal Biology26
- Tissue & Cell26
- Toxicological Sciences26
- Harmful Algae26
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology26
167 Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics25
- Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine25
- Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases25
- Agriculture and Human Values25
- Global Ecology and Conservation25
- Fire Ecology25
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment25
- Rice Science25
- Hydrobiologia25
- ICES Journal of Marine Science25
- Toxicon25
- Transboundary and Emerging Diseases25
- Basic and Applied Ecology25
- Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science25
- Crop Protection25
182 Veterinary Medicine and Science24
- Journal of Reproductive Immunology24
- Animal Feed Science and Technology24
- Journal of Natural Products24
- Diversity and Distributions24
- Global Change Biology Bioenergy24
- Evolution24
- Conservation Letters24
- Annual Review of Marine Science24
- Acta Tropica24
- Biodiversity and Conservation24
- Reproductive Sciences24
- Plant Disease24
- Mycosphere24
- Ecological Monographs24
- European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology24
198 Rice23
- Toxicology in Vitro23
- Placenta23
(This list is limited to max. 200 journals; click here to see the full list)
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