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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review Plant Biology	71
2	Fungal Diversity	66
3	Horticulture Research	43
4	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	41
5	Human Reproduction Update	36
6	Cell Host & Microbe	35
7	Annual Review of Phytopathology	33
8	Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology	30
-	Molecular Plant	30
10	Annual Review of Marine Science	27
11	Drugs	26
12	ISME Journal	24
13	Landscape and Urban Planning	23
14	Current Opinion in Plant Biology	22
-	Global Change Biology	22
16	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	20
-	Plant Cell	20
-	Annual Review of Animal Biosciences	20
19	Ecosystem Services	19
-	Plant Biotechnology Journal	19
21	Computers and Electronics in Agriculture	18
-	Particle and Fibre Toxicology	18
-	Nature Ecology & Evolution	18
24	Trends in Plant Science	17
-	Agronomy for Sustainable Development	17
-	New Phytologist	17
27	Animal Nutrition	16
-	Ecology Letters	16
-	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	16
-	Cell Biology and Toxicology	16
31	Postharvest Biology and Technology	15
-	Agricultural Water Management	15
-	Phytomedicine	15
-	Mycosphere	15
-	Crop Journal	15
36	Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology	14
-	Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews	14
-	Journal of Experimental Botany	14
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	14
-	Plant Physiology	14
-	Agricultural Systems	14
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	14
-	Field Crops Research	14
44	Brain Structure & Function	13
-	Industrial Crops and Products	13
-	Fungal Biology Reviews	13
-	Ecological Economics	13
-	Ecological Informatics	13
-	Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety	13
-	Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences	13

-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	13
-	Biosystems Engineering	13
-	Animal Health Research Reviews	13
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	13
-	Ecological Monographs	13
56	Rice	12
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	12
-	Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research	12
-	Plant Journal	12
-	Environmental and Experimental Botany	12
-	Environmental Health Perspectives	12
-	Precision Agriculture	12
-	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	12
-	Pharmaceutical Biology	12
-	Marine Pollution Bulletin	12
-	Molecular Plant Pathology	12
67	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry	11
-	Toxicology	11
-	Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology	11
-	Water Resources Research	11
-	Journal of Ethnopharmacology	11
-	Infectious Diseases of Poverty	11
-	Ecological Applications	11
-	Horticultural Plant Journal	11
-	Landscape Ecology	11
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	11
-	Molecular Ecology	11
-	European Journal of Agronomy	11
79	Scientia Horticulturae	10
-	Aquaculture	10
-	Aquatic Toxicology	10
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	10
-	Journal of Fungi	10
-	Current Opinion in Insect Science	10
-	Frontiers in Plant Science	10
-	Diversity and Distributions	10
-	Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology	10
-	Chemico-Biological Interactions	10
-	Conservation Letters	10
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	10
-	Plant Science	10
-	Toxins	10
-	Basic and Applied Ecology	10
-	Biological Conservation	10
-	Journal of Ecology	10
-	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology	10
-	Inflammopharmacology	10
-	Plant Cell and Environment	10
-	Plant Methods	10
-	Neurotoxicology	10
-	Ecography	10
-	Ecological Engineering	10
-	Harmful Algae	10
104	Plant Phenomics	9
-	Toxicological Sciences	9
-	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases	9
-	Transboundary and Emerging Diseases	9
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	9
-	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	9
-	Rhizosphere	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Annals of Agricultural Sciences	9
-	Journal of Plant Physiology	9
-	Limnology and Oceanography Letters	9
-	Journal of Dairy Science	9
-	Human Reproduction Open	9
-	Microbial Ecology	9
-	Planta	9
-	Plant and Cell Physiology	9
-	Plant Diversity	9
-	Functional Ecology	9
-	Drug Safety	9
-	Ecological Processes	9
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	9
-	Trends in Parasitology	9
-	BMC Plant Biology	9
-	Archives of Toxicology	9
-	Fish & Shellfish Immunology	9
129	Plants-Basel	8
-	Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries	8
-	Agronomy-Basel	8
-	Journal of Plant Interactions	8
-	People and Nature	8
-	Photosynthesis Research	8
-	Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants	8
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	8
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	8
-	Movement Ecology	8
-	Journal of Integrative Agriculture	8
-	Plant Cell Reports	8
-	Mycorrhiza	8
-	Plant Genome	8
-	Journal of Natural Products	8
-	Plant Molecular Biology	8
-	Food and Chemical Toxicology	8
-	Frontiers in Zoology	8
-	Global Change Biology Bioenergy	8
-	Environmental Toxicology	8
-	Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture	8
-	Plant Reproduction	8
-	Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology	8
-	Toxics	8
-	Rice Science	8
-	Parasites & Vectors	8
-	Limnology and Oceanography	8
-	Malaria Journal	8
-	Pest Management Science	8
-	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine	8
-	Phytochemistry	8
-	Phytochemistry Reviews	8
-	Phytopathology	8
-	International Journal for Parasitology-Drugs and Drug Resistance	8
-	Journal of Land Use Science	8
-	International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability	8
-	Neobiota	8
-	Journal of Ovarian Research	8
-	Gm Crops & Food-Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain	8
-	Ecology	8
-	Ecosystems	8
-	Chemical Research in Toxicology	8
-	Conservation Biology	8
-	Critical Reviews in Toxicology	8
173	Poultry Science	7
-	Reproductive Medicine and Biology	7
-	Agriculture-Basel	7

-	Biology of Reproduction	7
-	Animal	7
-	Animal Cognition	7
-	Animal Feed Science and Technology	7
-	Outlook on Agriculture	7
-	Journal of Applied Phycology	7
-	Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture	7
-	Pathogens and Global Health	7
-	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	7
-	Journal of Great Lakes Research	7
-	Plant Biology	7
-	Integrative and Comparative Biology	7
-	International Journal for Parasitology	7
-	Mycoses	7
-	Plant Foods for Human Nutrition	7
-	Nanotoxicology	7
-	Frontiers in Marine Science	7
-	DNA Repair	7
-	Gesunde Pflanzen	7
-	Heredity	7
-	Human & Experimental Toxicology	7
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	7
-	Evolution	7
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	7
-	Fire Ecology	7

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