Plant & Animal Science: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review Plant Biology	69
2	Fungal Diversity	63
3	Horticulture Research	42
4	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	36
5	Human Reproduction Update	35
6	Cell Host & Microbe	33
7	Annual Review of Phytopathology	32
8	Molecular Plant	30
9	Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology	26
10	Drugs	24
11	Annual Review of Marine Science	23
-	ISME Journal	23
13	Landscape and Urban Planning	22
-	Current Opinion in Plant Biology	22
15	Global Change Biology	21
16	Plant Cell	20
-	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	20
18	Ecosystem Services	19
19	Plant Biotechnology Journal	18
20	Particle and Fibre Toxicology	17
-	Nature Ecology & Evolution	17
-	Trends in Plant Science	17
23	New Phytologist	16
-	Computers and Electronics in Agriculture	16
25	Cell Biology and Toxicology	15
-	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	15
-	Agronomy for Sustainable Development	15
-	Annual Review of Animal Biosciences	15
-	Postharvest Biology and Technology	15
-	Ecology Letters	15
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	15
-	Agricultural Water Management	15
-	Animal Nutrition	15
34	Plant Physiology	14
-	Field Crops Research	14
-	Crop Journal	14
-	Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews	14
-	Phytomedicine	14
39	Ecological Monographs	13
-	Journal of Experimental Botany	13
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	13
-	Agricultural Systems	13
-	Mycosphere	13
-	Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety	13
-	Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences	13
-	Ecological Economics	13
-	Ecological Informatics	13
-	Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology	13
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	13
-	Brain Structure & Function	13

51	Global Ecology and Biogeography	12
-	Biosystems Engineering	12
-	Animal Health Research Reviews	12
-	Marine Pollution Bulletin	12
-	Rice	12
-	Environmental Health Perspectives	12
-	Industrial Crops and Products	12
58	Molecular Ecology Resources	11
-	Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research	11
-	Precision Agriculture	11
-	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	11
-	Plant Journal	11
-	Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology	11
-	Water Resources Research	11
-	Environmental and Experimental Botany	11
-	Infectious Diseases of Poverty	11
67	Pharmaceutical Biology	10
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	10
-	Toxins	10
-	European Journal of Agronomy	10
-	Ecological Engineering	10
-	Harmful Algae	10
-	Journal of Ethnopharmacology	10
-	Biological Conservation	10
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	10
-	Molecular Ecology	10
-	Molecular Plant Pathology	10
-	Neurotoxicology	10
-	Landscape Ecology	10
-	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry	10
-	Toxicology	10
-	Chemico-Biological Interactions	10
-	Current Opinion in Insect Science	10
-	Frontiers in Plant Science	10
-	Fungal Biology Reviews	10
-	Ecological Applications	10
-	Horticultural Plant Journal	10
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	10
-	Aquaculture	10
90	Microbial Ecology	9
-	Plant Cell and Environment	9
-	Plant Methods	9
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	9
-	Plant Science	9
-	Fish & Shellfish Immunology	9
-	Ecography	9
-	Journal of Plant Physiology	9
-	Journal of Dairy Science	9
-	Inflammopharmacology	9
-	Journal of Fungi	9
-	International Journal for Parasitology-Drugs and Drug Resistance	9
-	Basic and Applied Ecology	9
-	Archives of Toxicology	9
-	Planta	9
-	Plant and Cell Physiology	9
-	Plant Diversity	9
-	Plant Phenomics	9
-	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases	9
-	Transboundary and Emerging Diseases	9
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	9
-	Scientia Horticulturae	9
-	Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology	9
-	Functional Ecology	9
-	Diversity and Distributions	9
-	Journal of Ecology	9
-	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Annals of Agricultural Sciences	9
-	Aquatic Toxicology	9
120	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	8
-	Movement Ecology	8
-	Mycorrhiza	8
-	Parasites & Vectors	8
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	8
-	Phytochemistry	8
-	Phytochemistry Reviews	8
-	Plant Reproduction	8
-	Trends in Parasitology	8
-	Critical Reviews in Toxicology	8
-	Ecology	8
-	Journal of Natural Products	8
-	BMC Plant Biology	8
-	Plant Cell Reports	8
-	Plant Genome	8
-	Plant Molecular Biology	8
-	Limnology and Oceanography	8
-	Photosynthesis Research	8
-	Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants	8
-	Plants-Basel	8
-	Toxicological Sciences	8
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	8
-	Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries	8
-	Rhizosphere	8
-	Conservation Letters	8
-	Frontiers in Zoology	8
-	Drug Safety	8
-	Ecological Processes	8
-	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine	8
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	8
-	Journal of Land Use Science	8
-	Journal of Ovarian Research	8
152	Phytopathology	7
-	Plant and Soil	7
-	Nanotoxicology	7
-	Plant Growth Regulation	7
-	Oikos	7
-	Pest Management Science	7
-	Plant Pathology Journal	7
-	Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology	7
-	Toxics	7
-	Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology	7
-	Rice Science	7
-	Chemical Research in Toxicology	7
-	Conservation Biology	7
-	Gm Crops & Food-Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain	7
-	Ecosphere	7
-	Ecosystems	7
-	Journal of Animal Ecology	7
-	Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture	7
-	Journal of Biogeography	7
-	Journal of Great Lakes Research	7
-	Journal of Integrative Agriculture	7
-	International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability	7
-	Journal of Plant Interactions	7
-	Animal Frontiers	7

-	Neobiota	7
-	Outlook on Agriculture	7
-	Malaria Journal	7
-	People and Nature	7
-	Poultry Science	7
-	Environmental Toxicology	7
-	Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture	7
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	7
-	Fire Ecology	7
-	Food and Chemical Toxicology	7
-	Frontiers in Marine Science	7
-	DNA Repair	7
-	Gesunde Pflanzen	7
-	Global Change Biology Bioenergy	7
-	Heredity	7
-	Human & Experimental Toxicology	7
-	Journal of Applied Phycology	7
-	Human Reproduction Open	7
-	Integrative and Comparative Biology	7
-	International Journal for Parasitology	7
-	Journal of Marine Systems	7
-	Journal of Plant Growth Regulation	7
-	Agriculture-Basel	7
-	Agronomy-Basel	7
-	Biology of Reproduction	7

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