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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Fungal Diversity	78
2	Annual Review Plant Biology	53
3	Horticulture Research	45
4	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	39
5	Human Reproduction Update	36
6	Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology	35
7	Cell Host & Microbe	33
8	Annual Review of Marine Science	31
9	Molecular Plant	29
10	Landscape and Urban Planning	27
-	Annual Review of Phytopathology	27
12	Annual Review of Animal Biosciences	25
13	Drugs	24
14	Plant Cell	22
-	Global Change Biology	22
-	Particle and Fibre Toxicology	22
17	Current Opinion in Plant Biology	21
18	ISME Journal	20
-	Computers and Electronics in Agriculture	20
-	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	20
21	Ecosystem Services	18
-	Cell Biology and Toxicology	18
-	Trends in Plant Science	18
-	Animal Health Research Reviews	18
-	Mycosphere	18
-	Agronomy for Sustainable Development	18
27	Phytomedicine	17
-	Postharvest Biology and Technology	17
-	Plant Biotechnology Journal	17
-	Nature Ecology & Evolution	17
-	New Phytologist	17
-	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	17
33	Ecological Informatics	16
-	Animal Nutrition	16
-	Agricultural Water Management	16
-	Field Crops Research	16
37	Ecology Letters	15
-	Ecological Economics	15
-	Plant Physiology	15
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	15
-	Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology	15
-	Crop Journal	15
-	Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews	15
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	15
-	Biosystems Engineering	15
-	Pharmaceutical Biology	15
47	Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety	14
-	Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences	14
-	Industrial Crops and Products	14
-	Brain Structure & Function	14

-	Ecological Monographs	14
-	Journal of Experimental Botany	14
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	14
54	Environmental and Experimental Botany	13
-	Environmental Health Perspectives	13
-	Fungal Biology Reviews	13
-	Precision Agriculture	13
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	13
-	Marine Pollution Bulletin	13
-	Agricultural Systems	13
61	Frontiers in Plant Science	12
-	Ecological Applications	12
-	Infectious Diseases of Poverty	12
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	12
-	Plant Journal	12
-	European Journal of Agronomy	12
-	Ecological Engineering	12
-	Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology	12
-	Water Resources Research	12
-	Plant Phenomics	12
-	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry	12
-	Journal of Ethnopharmacology	12
-	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	12
-	Landscape Ecology	12
75	Current Opinion in Insect Science	11
-	Toxins	11
-	Annals of Agricultural Sciences	11
-	Aquaculture	11
-	Horticultural Plant Journal	11
-	Chemico-Biological Interactions	11
-	Rice	11
-	Scientia Horticulturae	11
-	Toxicology	11
-	Journal of Plant Physiology	11
-	Molecular Ecology	11
-	Molecular Plant Pathology	11
-	Plant Methods	11
-	Biological Conservation	11
89	Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology	10
-	Functional Ecology	10
-	Plant Science	10
-	Journal of Ecology	10
-	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology	10
-	Journal of Fungi	10
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	10
-	Microbial Ecology	10
-	Plant and Cell Physiology	10
-	Aquatic Toxicology	10
-	Harmful Algae	10
-	Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture	10
-	Fish & Shellfish Immunology	10
-	Critical Reviews in Toxicology	10
-	Ecography	10
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	10
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	10
-	Inflammopharmacology	10
-	Journal of Plant Interactions	10
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	10
-	Neurotoxicology	10
-	Basic and Applied Ecology	10
111	Ecological Processes	9
-	Environmental Toxicology	9
-	Fire Ecology	9
-	Conservation Letters	9
-	Diversity and Distributions	9
-	Drug Safety	9
-	Gesunde Pflanzen	9
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	9
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	9
-	Toxics	9
-	Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology	9
-	Human Reproduction Open	9
-	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine	9
-	Journal of Natural Products	9
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	9
-	People and Nature	9
-	Planta	9
-	Plant Diversity	9
-	Plant Molecular Biology	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Gm Crops & Food-Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain	9
-	Plants-Basel	9
-	Journal of Dairy Science	9
-	Journal of Land Use Science	9
-	International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability	9
-	Malaria Journal	9
-	BMC Plant Biology	9
-	Animal Frontiers	9
-	Phytochemistry	9
-	Phytopathology	9
-	Plant Cell and Environment	9
-	Archives of Toxicology	9
-	Plant Pathology Journal	9
144	Heredity	8
-	Chemical Research in Toxicology	8
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	8
-	Conservation Biology	8
-	Food and Chemical Toxicology	8
-	Frontiers in Marine Science	8
-	Global Change Biology Bioenergy	8
-	Rice Science	8
-	South African Journal of Botany	8
-	Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology	8
-	Trends in Parasitology	8
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	8
-	Journal of Great Lakes Research	8
-	Journal of Integrative Agriculture	8
-	International Journal of Fruit Science	8
-	Animal	8
-	Photosynthesis Research	8
-	Animal Cognition	8
-	Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants	8
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	8
-	Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research	8
-	Plant Cell Reports	8
-	Nanotoxicology	8
-	Plant Genome	8
-	Agriculture-Basel	8
-	Agronomy-Basel	8
-	Ecology	8
-	Human & Experimental Toxicology	8
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	8
-	Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution	8
-	Frontiers in Forests and Global Change	8
-	Frontiers in Neuroanatomy	8

-	Reproductive Medicine and Biology	8
-	Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries	8
-	Rhizosphere	8
-	Toxicological Sciences	8
-	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases	8
-	Transboundary and Emerging Diseases	8
-	Poultry Science	8
-	Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture	8
-	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	8
-	International Journal for Parasitology-Drugs and Drug Resistance	8
-	Journal of Ovarian Research	8
-	Journal of Animal Ecology	8
-	Pest Management Science	8
-	Phytochemistry Reviews	8
-	Plant and Soil	8
-	Plant Growth Regulation	8
-	Parasites & Vectors	8
-	Limnology and Oceanography	8
194	Ecological Modelling	7
-	Horticulturae	7
-	Evolution	7
-	Frontiers in Zoology	7
-	DNA Repair	7
-	Toxicology in Vitro	7
-	Journal of Thermal Biology	7

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