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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Annual Review Plant Biology	72
2	Fungal Diversity	68
3	Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics	42
4	Human Reproduction Update	36
5	Cell Host & Microbe	34
6	Annual Review of Phytopathology	33
-	Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology	33
8	Molecular Plant	31
9	Annual Review of Marine Science	28
10	Drugs	25
11	Landscape and Urban Planning	24
12	Global Change Biology	23
-	ISME Journal	23
14	Current Opinion in Plant Biology	22
15	Trends in Ecology & Evolution	20
-	Plant Cell	20
17	Plant Biotechnology Journal	19
-	Computers and Electronics in Agriculture	19
-	Particle and Fibre Toxicology	19
20	Trends in Plant Science	18
21	Agronomy for Sustainable Development	17
-	Cell Biology and Toxicology	17
-	New Phytologist	17
24	Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment	16
-	Phytomedicine	16
-	Postharvest Biology and Technology	16
27	Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part B-Critical Reviews	15
-	Agricultural Water Management	15
-	Journal of Integrative Plant Biology	15
-	Ecology Letters	15
-	Field Crops Research	15
-	Plant Physiology	15
33	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	14
-	Ecological Economics	14
-	Ecological Informatics	14
-	Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety	14
-	International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology	14
-	Biosystems Engineering	14
-	Journal of Experimental Botany	14
-	Animal Health Research Reviews	14
-	Ecological Monographs	14
-	Industrial Crops and Products	14
43	Brain Structure & Function	13
-	Molecular Ecology Resources	13
-	Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences	13
-	Fungal Biology Reviews	13
-	Agricultural Systems	13
-	Global Ecology and Biogeography	13
49	Ecological Applications	12
-	Pharmaceutical Biology	12

-	Mutation Research-Reviews in Mutation Research	12
-	Landscape Ecology	12
-	Marine Pollution Bulletin	12
-	Molecular Plant Pathology	12
-	Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry	12
-	Environmental and Experimental Botany	12
-	Environmental Health Perspectives	12
-	Rice	12
-	Plant Journal	12
-	Precision Agriculture	12
-	Water Resources Research	12
62	Journal of Ecology	11
-	Aquaculture	11
-	Journal of Applied Ecology	11
-	Plant Physiology and Biochemistry	11
-	Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology	11
-	Toxicology	11
-	Journal of Ethnopharmacology	11
-	Chemico-Biological Interactions	11
-	Methods in Ecology and Evolution	11
-	Molecular Ecology	11
-	Frontiers in Plant Science	11
-	Ecological Engineering	11
-	European Journal of Agronomy	11
75	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology	10
-	Annals of Agricultural Sciences	10
-	Microbial Ecology	10
-	Aquatic Toxicology	10
-	Basic and Applied Ecology	10
-	Conservation Letters	10
-	Functional Ecology	10
-	Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology	10
-	Plant Methods	10
-	Theoretical and Applied Genetics	10
-	Biological Conservation	10
-	Journal of Plant Physiology	10
-	Harmful Algae	10
-	Ecography	10
-	Inflammopharmacology	10
-	Fish & Shellfish Immunology	10
-	Scientia Horticulturae	10
-	Plant Science	10
-	Neurotoxicology	10
94	BMC Plant Biology	9
-	Archives of Toxicology	9
-	Diversity and Distributions	9
-	Drug Safety	9
-	Plant Cell and Environment	9
-	Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences	9
-	Toxicological Sciences	9
-	Transboundary and Emerging Diseases	9
-	Journal of Dairy Science	9
-	Biogeosciences	9
-	Critical Reviews in Toxicology	9
-	International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability	9
-	Planta	9
-	Plant and Cell Physiology	9
-	Plant Genome	9
-	Plant Molecular Biology	9
-	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases	9
-	Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases	9
-	Trends in Parasitology	9
113	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine	8
-	Malaria Journal	8
-	Journal of Great Lakes Research	8
-	Journal of Land Use Science	8
-	Chemical Research in Toxicology	8
-	Journal of Ovarian Research	8
-	Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions	8
-	Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture	8
-	Frontiers in Neuroanatomy	8
-	Conservation Biology	8
-	Gesunde Pflanzen	8
-	Global Change Biology Bioenergy	8
-	Heredity	8
-	DNA Repair	8
-	Ecology	8
-	Ecosystems	8
-	Environmental Toxicology	8
-	European Journal of Soil Biology	8
-	Fire Ecology	8
-	Food and Chemical Toxicology	8
-	Rice Science	8
-	Plant Growth Regulation	8
-	Mycorrhiza	8
-	Poultry Science	8
-	Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology	8
-	Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries	8
-	Pest Management Science	8
-	Limnology and Oceanography	8
-	Mammal Review	8
-	Journal of Natural Products	8
-	Journal of Plant Interactions	8
-	Journal of Animal Ecology	8
-	ICES Journal of Marine Science	8
-	Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants	8
-	Phytochemistry	8
-	Phytochemistry Reviews	8
-	Phytopathology	8
-	Plant Cell Reports	8
-	Nanotoxicology	8
-	Neobiota	8
-	Parasites & Vectors	8
-	Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology	8
155	Biology of Reproduction	7
-	Alpine Botany	7
-	American Naturalist	7
-	Journal of Marine Systems	7
-	Journal of Plant Growth Regulation	7
-	Journal of Applied Phycology	7
-	Frontiers in Zoology	7
-	International Journal for Parasitology	7
-	International Journal of Fruit Science	7
-	Evolution	7
-	Physiologia Plantarum	7
-	South African Journal of Botany	7
-	Plant and Soil	7
-	Mycoses	7
-	Plant Pathology Journal	7
-	Reproduction	7
-	Outlook on Agriculture	7
-	Reproductive Medicine and Biology	7
-	Reproductive Toxicology	7
-	Theriogenology	7
-	Journal of Biogeography	7

-	Animal	7
-	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	7
-	Animal Cognition	7
-	Animal Feed Science and Technology	7
-	Annals of Botany	7
-	Journal of Invertebrate Pathology	7
-	Aquaculture Environment Interactions	7
-	Journal of Thermal Biology	7
-	Human & Experimental Toxicology	7
-	Ecological Complexity	7
-	Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science	7
-	Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C-Toxicology & Pharmacology	7
-	Photosynthesis Research	7
-	Plant Biology	7
-	Plant Foods for Human Nutrition	7
-	Oikos	7
192	Journal of Arid Environments	6
-	Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology	6
-	American Journal of Botany	6
-	Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology	6
-	Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research	6
-	Botanical Studies	6
-	Animal Cells and Systems	6
-	Marine Biotechnology	6
-	Marine Ecology Progress Series	6

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