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Best Plant Science journals

537 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Plant Science. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 135 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Annual Review of Plant Biology 49.6 99th Q1 SCIE – Yes
2 Molecular Plant 39.2 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Trends in Plant Science 34.8 99th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Nature Plants 20.6 99th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 18.3 99th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Annual Review of Phytopathology 18.3 98th Q1 SCIE – No
7 Plant Communications 17.6 98th Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Plant Cell 17.4 98th Q1 SCIE – No
9 New Crops 16.7 98th Q1 ESCI – No
10 New Phytologist 16.1 98th Q1 SCIE – No
11 Plant Biotechnology Journal 15.2 98th Q1 SCIE – Yes
12 Phytochemistry Reviews 15.1 97th Q1 SCIE – No
13 Horticulture Research 14.7 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
14 Current Opinion in Plant Biology 14.6 97th Q1 SCIE – No
15 Environmental Technology and Innovation 13.3 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
16 Molecular Horticulture 12.7 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
17 Rice Science 12.4 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
18 Plant Physiology 12.2 96th Q1 SCIE – No
19 Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 12.1 96th Q1 SCIE – No
20 Crop Journal 12 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
21 Horticultural Plant Journal 11.8 96th Q1 SCIE – Yes
22 Journal of Experimental Botany 11.5 96th Q1 SCIE – No
23 Plant Nano Biology 11.5 95th Q1 ESCI – Yes
24 Environmental and Experimental Botany 10.8 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
25 Frontiers in Plant Science 10.8 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
26 Botanical Review 10.6 95th Q1 SCIE – No
27 Plant Phenomics 10.6 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
28 European Journal of Agronomy 10.3 94th Q1 SCIE – No
29 Foods 10.3 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
30 Plant Diversity 10.3 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
31 Plant, Cell and Environment 10.2 94th Q1 SCIE – No
32 Journal of Ecology 10.1 94th Q1 SCIE – No
33 Plant Journal 10 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
34 Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 9.9 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
35 Plant Stress 9.8 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
36 Journal of Pest Science 9.2 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
37 Molecular Plant Pathology 9.2 93rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
38 Legume Science 9.1 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
39 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 9.1 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
40 Journal of Integrative Agriculture 9 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
41 Natural Products and Bioprospecting 9 92nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
42 Stress Biology 8.9 92nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
43 Journal of Plant Physiology 8.8 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
44 Plant Cell Reports 8.8 91st Q1 SCIE – No
45 Journal of Fungi 8.7 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
46 Plant Methods 8.7 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
47 Plant Biology 8.6 91st Q1 SCIE – No
48 Plant Growth Regulation 8.5 91st Q1 SCIE – No
49 Plants 8.5 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
50 aBIOTECH 8.5 90th Q1 ESCI – No
51 Plant Science 8.5 90th Q1 SCIE – No
52 Rice 8.5 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
53 Annals of Agricultural Sciences 8.2 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
54 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 8.2 90th Q1 SCIE – No
55 Plant and Cell Physiology 8 89th Q1 SCIE – No
56 Journal of Plant Interactions 7.9 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
57 Plant Signaling and Behavior 7.9 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
58 Agriculture (Switzerland) 7.8 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
59 BMC Biology 7.8 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
60 Plant Molecular Biology 7.7 89th Q1 SCIE – No
61 Fermentation 7.7 88th Q1 SCIE – Yes
62 Journal of Systematics and Evolution 7.7 88th Q1 SCIE – No
63 Harmful Algae 7.6 88th Q1 SCIE – No
64 Planta 7.5 88th Q1 SCIE – No
65 Tree Physiology 7.5 88th Q1 SCIE – No
66 Plant and Soil 7.5 87th Q1 SCIE – No
67 Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 7.4 87th Q1 SCIE – No
68 Forestry Research 7.3 87th Q1 ESCI – Yes
69 International Journal of Phytoremediation 7.3 87th Q1 SCIE – No
70 Photosynthesis Research 7.3 87th Q1 SCIE – No
71 Annals of Botany 7.1 86th Q1 SCIE – No
72 Phytochemistry 7.1 86th Q1 SCIE – No
73 Plants People Planet 6.9 86th Q1 SCIE – Yes
74 Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 6.8 86th Q1 SCIE – No
75 Frontiers in Agronomy 6.8 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
76 Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants 6.8 86th Q1 SCIE – No
77 Plant Genome 6.8 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
78 Rhizosphere 6.7 85th Q1 SCIE – No
79 BMC Plant Biology 6.6 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
80 Phytopathology 6.6 85th Q1 SCIE – No
81 Botanical Studies 6.5 85th Q1 SCIE – Yes
82 International Journal of Fruit Science 6.5 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
83 South African Journal of Botany 6.4 84th Q1 SCIE – No
84 Journal of Plant Ecology 6.3 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
85 Current Plant Biology 6.2 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
86 Plant Phenome Journal 6.2 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
87 Preslia 6.2 84th Q1 SCIE – No
88 Horticulturae 6.1 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
89 Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 6.1 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
90 Life Science Alliance 6.1 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
91 Oil Crop Science 6 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
92 Protoplasma 6 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
93 EFSA Journal 5.9 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
94 Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control 5.9 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
95 Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 5.9 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
96 Journal of Applied Phycology 5.9 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
97 Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 5.9 82nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
98 Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 5.9 81st Q1 SCIE – No
99 Phytopathology Research 5.8 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
100 Journal of Phycology 5.7 81st Q1 SCIE – No
101 Mycorrhiza 5.7 81st Q1 SCIE – No
102 Seed Biology 5.7 81st Q1 ESCI – No
103 Applications in Plant Sciences 5.5 80th Q1 SCIE – Yes
104 Beverage Plant Research 5.5 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
105 Alpine Botany 5.4 80th Q1 SCIE – No
106 Aquatic Botany 5.4 80th Q1 SCIE – No
107 Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 5.4 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
108 Molecular Breeding 5.4 80th Q1 SCIE – No
109 Physiologia Plantarum 5.4 79th Q1 SCIE – No
110 Crop and Pasture Science 5.3 79th Q1 SCIE – No
111 In Silico Plants 5.3 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
112 Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 5.3 79th Q1 SCIE – No
113 Plant Pathology 5.3 79th Q1 SCIE – No
114 Wood Science and Technology 5.3 79th Q1 SCIE – No
115 Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection 5.2 78th Q1 SCIE – No
116 Phytochemical Analysis 5.2 78th Q1 SCIE – No
117 European Journal of Forest Research 5.1 78th Q1 SCIE – No
118 Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 5.1 78th Q1 SCIE – No
119 Plant Reproduction 5.1 78th Q1 SCIE – No
120 Taxon 5.1 77th Q1 SCIE – No
121 ACS Agricultural Science and Technology 5 77th Q1 ESCI – No
122 Biotechnologia 5 77th Q1 – – Yes
123 Functional Plant Biology 5 77th Q1 SCIE – No
124 Fungal Ecology 4.9 77th Q1 SCIE – No
125 Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 4.9 76th Q1 SCIE – No
126 Phytobiomes Journal 4.9 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
127 Plant Disease 4.9 76th Q1 SCIE – No
128 MycoKeys 4.8 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
129 Plant Direct 4.8 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
130 Weed Research 4.8 76th Q1 SCIE – No
131 International Journal of Plant Production 4.8 75th Q1 SCIE – No
132 Seed Science and Technology 4.8 75th Q1 SCIE – No
133 Algae 4.7 75th Q1 SCIE – No
134 Microbes and Environments 4.7 75th Q1 SCIE – No
135 Vegetation Classification and Survey 4.7 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
136 AoB PLANTS 4.7 74th Q2 SCIE – Yes
137 Applied Phycology 4.7 74th Q2 – – Yes
138 Horticulture Environment and Biotechnology 4.7 74th Q2 SCIE – No
139 Vegetable Research 4.7 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
140 Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 4.6 74th Q2 SCIE – No
141 Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 4.6 74th Q2 SCIE – No
142 European Journal of Plant Pathology 4.6 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
143 Forest and Society 4.6 73rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
144 NeoBiota 4.6 73rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
145 European Journal of Phycology 4.5 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
146 Advances in Botanical Research 4.5 72nd Q2 – – No
147 Journal of Plant Research 4.5 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
148 Trees - Structure and Function 4.5 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
149 American Journal of Botany 4.4 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
150 Frontiers in Natural Products 4.4 72nd Q2 – – Yes
151 Agrobiological Records 4.4 71st Q2 – – No
152 Journal of Plant Biology 4.4 71st Q2 SCIE – No
153 Dendrochronologia 4.3 71st Q2 SCIE – No
154 In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant 4.3 71st Q2 SCIE – No
155 Integrative and Comparative Biology 4.3 71st Q2 SCIE – No
156 Journal of Integrated Pest Management 4.3 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
157 Aerobiologia 4.3 70th Q2 SCIE – No
158 Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology 4.3 70th Q2 SCIE – No
159 Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology 4.3 70th Q2 SCIE – No
160 International Journal of Plant Biology 4.2 70th Q2 – – Yes
161 Photosynthetica 4.2 70th Q2 SCIE – Yes
162 Quantitative Plant Biology 4.1 69th Q2 ESCI – Yes
163 Seed Science Research 4.1 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
164 IAWA Journal 4 69th Q2 SCIE – No
165 Tropical Ecology 4 69th Q2 SCIE – No
166 Weed Science 4 69th Q2 SCIE – No
167 Plant Biosystems 3.9 69th Q2 SCIE – No
168 Breeding Science 3.9 68th Q2 SCIE – No
169 Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology 3.9 68th Q2 SCIE – No
170 Fitoterapia 3.9 68th Q2 SCIE – No
171 Journal of Vegetation Science 3.9 68th Q2 SCIE – No
172 Systematics and Biodiversity 3.9 68th Q2 SCIE – No
173 Australian Systematic Botany 3.8 67th Q2 SCIE – No
174 Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture 3.8 67th Q2 – – Yes
175 Fruit Research 3.8 67th Q2 ESCI – Yes
176 Journal of Forestry 3.8 67th Q2 SCIE – No
177 Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 3.8 67th Q2 SCIE – No
178 Tropical Plant Pathology 3.8 67th Q2 SCIE – No
179 Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3.8 66th Q2 – – No
180 Grassland Research 3.7 66th Q2 ESCI – Yes
181 Integrative Organismal Biology 3.7 66th Q2 SCIE – Yes
182 International Journal of Vegetable Science 3.7 66th Q2 ESCI – No
183 Plant Ecology 3.6 66th Q2 SCIE – No
184 Biologia 3.6 65th Q2 SCIE – No
185 Fottea 3.6 65th Q2 SCIE – No
186 Plant Physiology Reports 3.6 65th Q2 ESCI – No
187 Studies in Fungi 3.6 65th Q2 – – Yes
188 Trends in Phytochemical Research 3.6 65th Q2 – – No
189 Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 3.5 64th Q2 SCIE – No
190 Integrative Systematics 3.5 64th Q2 – – No
191 Agricultural Research 3.4 64th Q2 ESCI – No
192 Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 3.4 64th Q2 SCIE – Yes
193 Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology 3.4 64th Q2 ESCI – No
194 Plant Breeding 3.4 64th Q2 SCIE – No
195 Cryptogamie, Algologie 3.4 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
196 Journal of Crop Improvement 3.4 63rd Q2 ESCI – No
197 Ornamental Plant Research 3.4 63rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
198 Plant Biotechnology Reports 3.4 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
199 Revista Brasileira de Botanica 3.4 63rd Q2 SCIE – No
200 Journal of Berry Research 3.4 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
201 Biodiversitas 3.3 62nd Q2 – – Yes
202 Frontiers in Horticulture 3.3 62nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
203 Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology 3.3 62nd Q2 – – No
204 Medicinal Plant Biology 3.3 62nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
205 Phycologia 3.3 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
206 Botanica Marina 3.3 61st Q2 SCIE – No
207 EPPO Bulletin 3.3 61st Q2 – – No
208 Archives Animal Breeding 3.2 61st Q2 SCIE – Yes
209 Economic Botany 3.2 61st Q2 – – No
210 Genetica 3.2 61st Q2 SCIE – No
211 New Zealand Journal of Botany 3.2 60th Q2 SCIE – No
212 Plant Gene 3.2 60th Q2 ESCI – No
213 Records of Natural Products 3.2 60th Q2 SCIE – No
214 Reproduction and Breeding 3.2 60th Q2 – – Yes
215 Advances in Weed Science 3.1 60th Q2 SCIE – Yes
216 Dendrobiology 3.1 59th Q2 SCIE – No
217 International Journal of Forestry Research 3.1 59th Q2 – – Yes
218 Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany 3.1 59th Q2 SCIE – No
219 Phytopathologia Mediterranea 3.1 59th Q2 SCIE – Yes
220 Plant Systematics and Evolution 3.1 59th Q2 SCIE – No
221 Tropical Plants 3.1 59th Q2 ESCI – No
222 Euphytica 3.1 58th Q2 SCIE – No
223 Ethnobiology and Conservation 3 58th Q2 ESCI – No
224 Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 3 58th Q2 SCIE – No
225 Grass Research 3 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
226 Phytoparasitica 3 58th Q2 SCIE – No
227 New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 3 57th Q2 SCIE – No
228 Turkish Journal of Botany 3 57th Q2 SCIE – Yes
229 Willdenowia 3 57th Q2 SCIE – No
230 Annals of Forest Research 2.9 57th Q2 SCIE – Yes
231 Eurasian Journal of Soil Science 2.9 57th Q2 – – No
232 Weed Technology 2.9 57th Q2 SCIE – Yes
233 Asian Journal of Ethnobiology 2.9 56th Q2 – – No
234 Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 2.9 56th Q2 SCIE – Yes
235 BioRisk 2.8 56th Q2 – – Yes
236 Phytochemistry Letters 2.8 56th Q2 SCIE – No
237 PhytoKeys 2.8 56th Q2 SCIE – Yes
238 Annual Plant Reviews Online 2.8 55th Q2 ESCI – No
239 Grassland Science 2.8 55th Q2 SCIE – No
240 International Journal of Plant Sciences 2.8 55th Q2 SCIE – No
241 Journal of Plant Pathology 2.8 55th Q2 SCIE – No
242 Sydowia 2.8 55th Q2 SCIE – No
243 Botany 2.8 54th Q2 SCIE – No
244 Haseltonia 2.8 54th Q2 SCIE – No
245 Integrative Conservation 2.8 54th Q2 ESCI – No
246 Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture 2.8 54th Q2 – – Yes
247 Journal of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers 2.7 54th Q2 – – No
248 Botany Letters 2.7 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
249 Natural Product Communications 2.7 53rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
250 Vegetation Ecology and Diversity 2.7 53rd Q2 – – Yes
251 Journal of Ethnobiology 2.6 53rd Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
252 Tarim Bilimleri Dergisi 2.6 53rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
253 Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 2.6 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
254 Ecologica Montenegrina 2.6 52nd Q2 – – Yes
255 Plant Breeding and Biotechnology 2.6 52nd Q2 – – No
256 Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 2.6 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
257 Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems 2.6 52nd Q2 – – Yes
258 Vegetos 2.6 52nd Q2 – – No
259 Arabian Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants 2.6 51st Q2 – – No
260 European Journal of Taxonomy 2.6 51st Q2 SCIE – Yes
261 Horticulture Journal 2.6 51st Q2 SCIE – No
262 Bryologist 2.5 51st Q2 SCIE – No
263 Phycological Research 2.5 51st Q2 SCIE – No
264 Acta Agronomica Sinica (China) 2.5 50th Q2 – – Yes
265 Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 2.5 50th Q2 SCIE – Yes
266 Agriculture and Forestry 2.5 50th Q2 – – Yes
267 Chinese Journal of Grassland 2.5 50th Q2 – – No
268 Journal of General Plant Pathology 2.5 50th Q2 SCIE – No
269 Journal of Plant Protection Research 2.5 50th Q2 ESCI – Yes
270 Egyptian Journal of Botany 2.5 49th Q3 ESCI – No
271 Journal of Rubber Research 2.5 49th Q3 SCIE – No
272 Plant Species Biology 2.5 49th Q3 SCIE – No
273 Plant-Environment Interactions 2.5 49th Q3 ESCI – Yes
274 Agrosystems, Geosciences and Environment 2.4 49th Q3 ESCI – Yes
275 Canadian Journal of Plant Science 2.4 48th Q3 SCIE – No
276 Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology 2.4 48th Q3 – – No
277 Journal of Pollination Ecology 2.4 48th Q3 ESCI – Yes
278 New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 2.4 48th Q3 SCIE – Yes
279 Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura 2.4 48th Q3 SCIE – Yes
280 California Agriculture 2.3 47th Q3 SCIE – Yes
281 Folia Geobotanica 2.3 47th Q3 SCIE – No
282 Forest Products Journal 2.3 47th Q3 SCIE – No
283 Journal of Biologically Active Products from Nature 2.3 47th Q3 ESCI – No
284 Plant Biotechnology 2.3 47th Q3 SCIE – No
285 Systematic Botany 2.3 47th Q3 SCIE – No
286 Acta Prataculturae Sinica 2.3 46th Q3 – – No
287 Edinburgh Journal of Botany 2.3 46th Q3 – – Yes
288 Tropical Plant Biology 2.3 46th Q3 SCIE – No
289 Biodiversity Data Journal 2.2 46th Q3 SCIE – Yes
290 Chinese Journal of Rice Science 2.2 46th Q3 – – Yes
291 Australasian Plant Pathology 2.2 45th Q3 SCIE – No
292 Plant Ecology and Diversity 2.2 45th Q3 SCIE – No
293 Acta Agrobotanica 2.1 45th Q3 ESCI – Yes
294 Collectanea Botanica 2.1 45th Q3 – – Yes
295 Grana 2.1 45th Q3 SCIE – No
296 Plant Ecology and Evolution 2.1 45th Q3 SCIE – Yes
297 Comprehensive Plant Biology 2.1 44th Q3 SCIE – Yes
298 Journal of Advanced Biotechnology and Experimental Therapeutics 2.1 44th Q3 – – Yes
299 Nordic Journal of Botany 2.1 44th Q3 SCIE – No
300 Pakistan Journal of Botany 2.1 44th Q3 SCIE – Yes

All remaining Plant Science journals (237)

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