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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Global Change Biology82
2 Cell Host & Microbe81
- Computers and Electronics in Agriculture81
- Frontiers in Plant Science81
5 New Phytologist71
- Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety71
7 Industrial Crops and Products68
8 Molecular Plant67
9 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry66
10 Marine Pollution Bulletin62
- Drugs62
12 Trends in Plant Science61
13 Phytomedicine59
14 Plant Cell58
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution58
16 Journal of Ethnopharmacology55
- Plant Biotechnology Journal55
18 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry54
- Landscape and Urban Planning54
- ISME Journal54
21 Agricultural Water Management52
22 Plant Physiology51
23 Plant Journal50
- Ecological Informatics50
- Food and Chemical Toxicology50
- Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment50
- Annual Review Plant Biology50
28 Aquaculture49
- Journal of Integrative Plant Biology49
30 Scientia Horticulturae48
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution48
- Ecological Economics48
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology48
- Environmental Health Perspectives48
35 Ecology Letters46
- Fertility and Sterility46
37 Journal of Experimental Botany45
- Water Resources Research45
- Fish & Shellfish Immunology45
40 Postharvest Biology and Technology44
- Field Crops Research44
42 Poultry Science43
43 Journal of Dairy Science42
- Plant Cell and Environment42
- Current Opinion in Plant Biology42
46 Environmental and Experimental Botany40
- Chemico-Biological Interactions40
48 Molecular Ecology39
- Human Reproduction Update39
- BMC Plant Biology39
- Human Reproduction39
- Global Ecology and Biogeography39
53 Archives of Toxicology38
- Agricultural Systems38
55 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases37
- Biological Conservation37
- Biosystems Engineering37
58 Plant and Soil36
- Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture36
60 Aquatic Toxicology35
- South African Journal of Botany35
- Journal of Plant Growth Regulation35
- Ecological Engineering35
- Toxicology35
65 Plant Science34
- Molecular Ecology Resources34
- Animal34
68 Conservation Biology33
- Functional Ecology33
- Pest Management Science33
- Physiologia Plantarum33
- Journal of Applied Ecology33
- Journal of Ecology33
- Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition33
- Inflammopharmacology33
- European Journal of Agronomy33
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment33
- Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology33
79 Parasites & Vectors32
- Planta32
- Plant Cell Reports32
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences32
- Ecography32
- Transboundary and Emerging Diseases32
85 Phytochemistry31
- Precision Agriculture31
- Ecological Applications31
- Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology31
- Agronomy for Sustainable Development31
- Diversity-Basel31
- Fungal Diversity31
- Theoretical and Applied Genetics31
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics31
94 Journal of Plant Physiology30
- Ecology30
- International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology30
- Trends in Parasitology30
- Malaria Journal30
99 Particle and Fibre Toxicology29
- Phytopathology29
- Plant Disease29
- Molecular Plant Pathology29
- Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology29
- Annual Review of Phytopathology29
- Plant Methods29
- Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology29
- Harmful Algae29
- Biogeosciences29
- Toxicological Sciences29
110 Reproductive Biomedicine Online28
- Landscape Ecology28
- Limnology and Oceanography28
- Diversity and Distributions28
- Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology28
- Journal of Ovarian Research28
116 Plant and Cell Physiology27
- Neurotoxicology27
- Journal of Thermal Biology27
- Journal of Natural Products27
- Ecological Modelling27
- Environmental Toxicology27
- Plant Growth Regulation27
- Mycoses27
- Journal of Applied Phycology27
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology27
126 Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants26
- Phytochemistry Reviews26
- Plant Biology26
- Plant Molecular Biology26
- Marine Environmental Research26
- DNA Repair26
- Drug Safety26
- Conservation Letters26
- Brain Structure & Function26
- Annual Review of Marine Science26
- Chemical Research in Toxicology26
- Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry26
- European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology26
- Annals of Botany26
140 Journal of Animal Ecology25
- Global Change Biology Bioenergy25
- Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics25
- Microbial Ecology25
- ICES Journal of Marine Science25
- Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science25
- Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology25
- BMC Veterinary Research25
- Animal Feed Science and Technology25
149 Journal of Animal Science24
- International Journal for Parasitology24
- Evolution24
- Acta Tropica24
- Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases24
- Biology of Reproduction24
- Pharmaceutical Biology24
- Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology24
- Restoration Ecology24
- Journal of Great Lakes Research24
- Ecological Monographs24
- Tissue & Cell24
- Toxicon24
- Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology24
- Cell Biology and Toxicology24
164 Rice23
- Placenta23
- Oikos23
- Reproductive Sciences23
- Journal of Biogeography23
- Crop Protection23
- Gesunde Pflanzen23
- Basic and Applied Ecology23
- Biodiversity and Conservation23
- Biological Invasions23
- American Journal of Botany23
- Reproductive Toxicology23
- Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology23
- Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions23
- Theriogenology23
- Agronomy Journal23
- Toxicology Letters23
181 Plant Genome22
- Neobiota22
- Research in Veterinary Science22
- Journal of Invertebrate Pathology22
- Fungal Biology Reviews22
- Developmental and Comparative Immunology22
- Toxicology in Vitro22
- Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries22
- Reproduction22
- Journal of Arid Environments22
- Marine Ecology Progress Series22
- Hydrobiologia22
- Agriculture and Human Values22
194 Microscopy Research and Technique21
- Journal of Reproductive Immunology21
- Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management21
- Animal Behaviour21
- Clinical Anatomy21
- Rice Science21
- Veterinary Microbiology21
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