Plant Sciences: Journal Rankings

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Frontiers in Plant Science	82
2	Plants-Basel	81
3	New Phytologist	70
4	Molecular Plant	69
5	Agronomy-Basel	68
6	Phytomedicine	60
-	Plant Cell	60
8	Trends in Plant Science	59
9	Journal of Ethnopharmacology	56
-	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry	56
11	Plant Biotechnology Journal	53
12	Plant Physiology	51
13	Plant Journal	50
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	50
15	Journal of Experimental Botany	44
-	Current Opinion in Plant Biology	44
17	Environmental and Experimental Botany	42
-	Plant Cell and Environment	42
19	BMC Plant Biology	40
20	Crop Journal	38
21	Annual Review Plant Biology	37
22	South African Journal of Botany	36
-	Plant and Soil	36
24	Journal of Plant Growth Regulation	35
25	Plant Science	34
-	Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	34
27	Journal of Ecology	33
28	Planta	32
-	Phytochemistry	32
-	Horticulture Research	32
31	Physiologia Plantarum	31
-	Plant Cell Reports	31
33	Journal of Plant Physiology	30
34	Annual Review of Phytopathology	29
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	29
-	Plant Growth Regulation	29
-	Plant Methods	29
38	Horticultural Plant Journal	28
-	Molecular Plant Pathology	28
-	Phytochemistry Reviews	28
-	Phytopathology	28
42	Journal of Natural Products	27
-	Rhizosphere	27
-	Plant Disease	27
45	Annals of Botany	26
-	Pharmaceutical Biology	26
-	Plant and Cell Physiology	26
-	Plant Biology	26
-	Plant Phenomics	26
50	Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants	25

-	Plant Molecular Biology	25
-	Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology	25
53	Plant Diversity	24
54	Plant Genome	23
55	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	21
-	Plant Pathology	21
-	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine	21
-	Rice Science	21
59	Plants People Planet	20
-	American Journal of Botany	20
-	Plant Foods for Human Nutrition	20
-	Functional Plant Biology	20
-	Journal of Phycology	20
-	Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection	20
-	Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture	20
66	Journal of Plant Nutrition	19
-	Photosynthesis Research	19
-	Gm Crops & Food-Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain	19
69	Phytopathology Research	18
70	Plant Direct	17
-	Journal of Plant Interactions	17
-	Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science	17
-	European Journal of Plant Pathology	17
74	Protoplasma	16
-	Molecular Breeding	16
-	Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution	16
-	Journal of Systematics and Evolution	16
-	Acta Physiologiae Plantarum	16
-	Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis	16
-	Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences	16
81	Taxon	15
-	Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca	15
-	AoB Plants	15
-	Phytochemical Analysis	15
-	Brazilian Journal of Botany	15
-	Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants	15
-	Journal of Vegetation Science	15
-	Flora	15
-	Plant Pathology Journal	15
90	Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology	14
-	Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants	14
-	Mycorrhiza	14
-	Applied Vegetation Science	14
-	Phytochemistry Letters	14
-	In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant	14
-	Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology	14
-	Journal of Plant Research	14
-	Applications in Plant Sciences	14
-	Aquatic Botany	14
-	Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics	14
-	Botanical Studies	14
102	Plant Biotechnology Reports	13
-	Weed Science	13
-	Phytobiomes Journal	13
-	Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society	13
-	Phytokeys	13
-	Plant Ecology	13
108	Weed Research	12
-	Weed Technology	12
-	Canadian Journal of Plant Science	12
-	Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	12
-	Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany	12
-	Planta Medica	12
-	Plant Breeding	12
-	Euphytica	12
116	Vegetation History and Archaeobotany	11
-	Plant Reproduction	11
-	Russian Journal of Plant Physiology	11
-	Journal of Plant Biology	11
-	Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology	11
-	Photosynthetica	11
-	Botanica Marina	11
-	Phytoparasitica	11
-	European Journal of Taxonomy	11
-	Breeding Science	11
-	Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology	11
-	Plant Biosystems	11
128	Journal of Phytopathology	10
-	Kew Bulletin	10
-	Plant Biotechnology	10
-	Seed Science and Technology	10
-	Pakistan Journal of Botany	10
-	Phycologia	10
-	Phytotaxa	10
-	Plant Molecular Biology Reporter	10
136	Journal of General Plant Pathology	9
-	Journal of Plant Pathology	9
-	Acta Botanica Mexicana	9
-	Alpine Botany	9
-	Botany	9
-	Plant Protection Science	9
-	International Journal of Plant Sciences	9
-	Plant Systematics and Evolution	9
-	Systematic Botany	9
-	Algae	9
-	Botany Letters	9
147	Journal of Asian Natural Products Research	8
-	Seed Science Research	8
-	Journal of Plant Registrations	8
-	New Zealand Journal of Botany	8
-	Palynology	8
-	Australasian Plant Pathology	8
-	Botanical Sciences	8
-	European Journal of Phycology	8
-	Acta Amazonica	8
-	Nordic Journal of Botany	8
-	Australian Journal of Botany	8
-	Economic Botany	8
159	Journal of Bryology	7
-	Australian Systematic Botany	7
-	Comparative Cytogenetics	7
-	Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding	7
-	Tropical Plant Biology	7
-	Willdenowia	7
-	Plant Species Biology	7
-	Acta Botanica Brasilica	7
-	Lichenologist	7
-	Plant Genetic Resources-Characterization and Utilization	7
169	Invasive Plant Science and Management	6
-	Plant Ecology and Evolution	6
-	Folia Geobotanica	6
-	Grana	6
-	Weed Biology and Management	6
-	Journal of Berry Research	6
-	Records of Natural Products	6

-	Nova Hedwigia	6
-	Bangladesh Journal of Botany	6
-	Biologia Plantarum	6
-	Botanica Serbica	6
-	Bryologist	6
-	Plant Ecology & Diversity	6
-	Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding	6
183	Caldasia	5
-	Annales Botanici Fennici	5
-	Cryptogamie Algologie	5
-	Herzogia	5
187	Acta Biológica Colombiana	4
-	Israel Journal of Plant Sciences	4
-	Acta Biologica Colombiana	4
-	Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society	4
-	Boletin de la Sociedad Argentina de Botanica	4
-	Phytocoenologia	4
-	Brittonia	4
-	Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden	4
195	Rhodora	3
-	Novon	3
-	Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy	3
-	Blumea	3
-	Bothalia	3
-	Cryptogamie Bryologie	3
-	Iheringia Serie Botanica	3
-	Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge	3
-	American Fern Journal	3
-	Bradleya	3
-	Candollea	3
206	Castanea	2
-	Gayana Botanica	2