Plant biology, crop science, plant pathology and mycology journals. All 337 journals are ranked by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, with each journal's quartile in plant science and its h-index.
Updated August 2026 · 2-year citation average from OpenAlex data
Review series and molecular plant biology journals lead on citations. Agronomy and regional botany journals cluster in Q2 to Q4 but are often the right home for applied work.
| Rank | Journal | 2026 score | Quartile | h-index | Publisher | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | 23.8 | Q1 | 293 | Annual Reviews | United States |
| 2 | CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES | 11.6 | Q1 | 186 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Molecular Plant | 10.5 | Q1 | 231 | Elsevier BV | China |
| 4 | PLANT CELL | 10.5 | Q1 | 504 | Oxford University Press | United States |
| 5 | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 10.1 | Q1 | 276 | Annual Reviews | United States |
| 6 | Nature Plants | 9.9 | Q1 | 207 | Nature Portfolio | United Kingdom |
| 7 | COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE | 9.8 | Q1 | 221 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 8 | MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH | 8.6 | Q1 | 162 | Elsevier BV | Germany |
| 9 | Plant Communications | 8.6 | Q1 | 77 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 10 | Crop and Environment | 7.8 | Q1 | 26 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 11 | TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE | 7.7 | Q1 | 381 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 12 | PHYTOPATHOLOGY | 7.4 | Q1 | 225 | American Phytopathological Society | United States |
| 13 | NEW PHYTOLOGIST | 7.3 | Q1 | 415 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 14 | STUDIES IN MYCOLOGY | 7.3 | Q1 | 131 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 15 | Agriculture Communications | 7.2 | Q1 | 16 | Elsevier BV | – |
| 16 | Plant Stress | 7.1 | Q1 | 59 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 17 | BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS | 7.0 | Q1 | 194 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 18 | Stress Biology | 7.0 | Q1 | 33 | Springer Nature | Singapore |
| 19 | PRECISION AGRICULTURE | 6.5 | Q1 | 115 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 20 | Plant Methods | 6.4 | Q1 | 134 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 21 | CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY | 6.3 | Q1 | 283 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 22 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES | 6.3 | Q1 | 424 | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Switzerland |
| 23 | POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY | 6.3 | Q1 | 196 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 24 | PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT | 6.2 | Q1 | 310 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 25 | Environmental Microbiome | 6.1 | Q1 | 44 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 26 | Crop Journal | 6.0 | Q1 | 89 | KeAi | Netherlands |
| 27 | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine | 6.0 | Q1 | 150 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 28 | PHARMACEUTICAL BIOLOGY | 6.0 | Q1 | 113 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 29 | ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY | 5.9 | Q1 | 200 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 30 | PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | 5.9 | Q1 | 477 | Oxford University Press | United States |
| 31 | Crop Design | 5.8 | Q1 | 14 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 32 | Current Plant Biology | 5.8 | Q1 | 47 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 33 | JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY | 5.8 | Q1 | 374 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 34 | Molecular Horticulture | 5.8 | Q1 | 27 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 35 | aBIOTECH | 5.6 | Q1 | 34 | Springer Science+Business Media | Singapore |
| 36 | Cell Surface | 5.6 | Q1 | 33 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 37 | Horticulture Advances | 5.6 | Q1 | 16 | Springer Science+Business Media | – |
| 38 | PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY | 5.5 | Q1 | 206 | Elsevier BV | France |
| 39 | Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture | 5.4 | Q1 | 65 | Springer Nature | Germany |
| 40 | PLANT JOURNAL | 5.3 | Q1 | 396 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 41 | Frontiers in Plant Science | 5.2 | Q1 | 326 | Frontiers Media | Switzerland |
| 42 | JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY | 5.2 | Q1 | 305 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 43 | Rice | 5.1 | Q1 | 106 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 44 | Horticultural Plant Journal | 4.9 | Q1 | 56 | KeAi | China |
| 45 | PLANT GROWTH REGULATION | 4.9 | Q1 | 156 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 46 | JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY | 4.8 | Q1 | 366 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 47 | Smart Agricultural Technology | 4.8 | Q1 | 61 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 48 | Agronomy-Basel | 4.7 | Q1 | 166 | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Switzerland |
| 49 | Plants-Basel | 4.7 | Q1 | 170 | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Switzerland |
| 50 | SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE | 4.7 | Q1 | 190 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 51 | BMC PLANT BIOLOGY | 4.6 | Q1 | 198 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 52 | Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture | 4.6 | Q1 | 55 | United Arab Emirates University | – |
| 53 | APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY | 4.5 | Q1 | 184 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 54 | PLANTA | 4.5 | Q1 | 264 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 55 | Journal of Genetics and Genomics | 4.4 | Q1 | 98 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 56 | Journal of Plant Interactions | 4.4 | Q1 | 80 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 57 | Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B | 4.4 | Q1 | 98 | Springer Science+Business Media | China |
| 58 | Plant Signaling & Behavior | 4.4 | Q1 | 137 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 59 | Journal of Cereal Science | 4.3 | Q1 | 179 | Elsevier BV | United States |
| 60 | PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM | 4.3 | Q1 | 235 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 61 | BMC GENOMICS | 4.2 | Q1 | 264 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 62 | Information Processing in Agriculture | 4.2 | Q1 | 74 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 63 | JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | 4.0 | Q1 | 198 | Elsevier BV | Germany |
| 64 | Phytopathology Research | 4.0 | Q1 | 34 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 65 | Plants People Planet | 4.0 | Q1 | 51 | Wiley | United States |
| 66 | PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANTS | 3.9 | Q1 | 81 | Springer Science+Business Media | India |
| 67 | JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION | 3.8 | Q1 | 136 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 68 | MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY | 3.8 | Q1 | 166 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 69 | PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY | 3.8 | Q1 | 235 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 70 | THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS | 3.8 | Q1 | 267 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 71 | Environmental Sustainability | 3.7 | Q1 | 46 | Springer Science+Business Media | Singapore |
| 72 | Mycotoxin Research | 3.7 | Q1 | 58 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 73 | PLANT SCIENCE | 3.7 | Q1 | 226 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 74 | Horticulturae | 3.6 | Q1 | 75 | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Switzerland |
| 75 | Plant Genome | 3.6 | Q1 | 95 | Crop Science Society of America | United States |
| 76 | POTATO RESEARCH | 3.6 | Q1 | 80 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 77 | Crop Protection | 3.5 | Q1 | 161 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 78 | Frontiers in Horticulture | 3.5 | Q1 | 15 | Frontiers Media | – |
| 79 | PLANT AND SOIL | 3.5 | Q1 | 299 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 80 | Quantitative Plant Biology | 3.5 | Q1 | 21 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 81 | FUNCTIONAL & INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS | 3.4 | Q1 | 106 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 82 | Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition | 3.4 | Q1 | 87 | Springer Science+Business Media | – |
| 83 | ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES | 3.3 | Q1 | 66 | – | – |
| 84 | Journal of Cotton Research | 3.3 | Q1 | 28 | BioMed Central | United Kingdom |
| 85 | Rhizosphere | 3.3 | Q1 | 60 | Elsevier BV | China |
| 86 | Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology | 3.3 | Q1 | 39 | Springer Science+Business Media | Switzerland |
| 87 | FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY | 3.2 | Q1 | 150 | CSIRO Publishing | Australia |
| 88 | Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment | 3.2 | Q1 | 22 | Wiley | Australia |
| 89 | MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS | 3.2 | Q1 | 221 | American Phytopathological Society | United States |
| 90 | Nitrogen | 3.2 | Q1 | 22 | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Switzerland |
| 91 | Frontiers in Agronomy | 3.2 | Q2 | 48 | Frontiers Media | Switzerland |
| 92 | Seed Biology | 3.2 | Q2 | 16 | – | – |
| 93 | Seeds | 3.2 | Q2 | 17 | – | Switzerland |
| 94 | Food Additives & Contaminants Part B-Surveillance | 3.1 | Q2 | 52 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 95 | Frontiers in Fungal Biology | 3.1 | Q2 | 27 | Frontiers Media | Switzerland |
| 96 | Journal of Crop Health | 3.0 | Q2 | 55 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 97 | Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection | 3.0 | Q2 | 55 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 98 | AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES | 2.9 | Q2 | 125 | Springer Nature (Netherlands) | Netherlands |
| 99 | CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY | 2.9 | Q2 | 91 | Taylor & Francis | Canada |
| 100 | MOLECULAR BREEDING | 2.9 | Q2 | 144 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 101 | AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF GRAPE AND WINE RESEARCH | 2.8 | Q2 | 107 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 102 | JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY AND CROP SCIENCE | 2.8 | Q2 | 116 | Wiley | Germany |
| 103 | Journal of Integrative Agriculture | 2.8 | Q2 | 108 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 104 | Oil Crop Science | 2.8 | Q2 | 20 | Elsevier BV | China |
| 105 | PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY | 2.8 | Q2 | 122 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 106 | PLANT BIOLOGY | 2.8 | Q2 | 131 | Wiley | Germany |
| 107 | TURKISH JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY | 2.8 | Q2 | 54 | Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) | Turkey |
| 108 | ACTA PHYSIOLOGIAE PLANTARUM | 2.7 | Q2 | 125 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 109 | Biologia Futura | 2.7 | Q2 | 25 | Springer Science+Business Media | Hungary |
| 110 | JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE & BIOTECHNOLOGY | 2.7 | Q2 | 76 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 111 | Legume Science | 2.7 | Q2 | 37 | Wiley | United States |
| 112 | Paddy and Water Environment | 2.7 | Q2 | 58 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 113 | PLANT SOIL AND ENVIRONMENT | 2.7 | Q2 | 82 | Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Czech Republic |
| 114 | Rice Science | 2.7 | Q2 | 75 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 115 | SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH | 2.7 | Q2 | 98 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 116 | Fungal Biology | 2.6 | Q2 | 86 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 117 | Horticulture Environment and Biotechnology | 2.6 | Q2 | 55 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 118 | PLANT PATHOLOGY | 2.6 | Q2 | 138 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 119 | Soil Ecology Letters | 2.6 | Q2 | 35 | Springer Science+Business Media | China |
| 120 | Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems | 2.5 | Q2 | 56 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 121 | Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding | 2.5 | Q2 | 32 | Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Czech Republic |
| 122 | International Journal of Fruit Science | 2.5 | Q2 | 49 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 123 | JOURNAL OF PLANT BIOLOGY | 2.5 | Q2 | 66 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 124 | OENO One | 2.5 | Q2 | 56 | ADERA | France |
| 125 | Plant Pathology Journal | 2.5 | Q2 | 62 | Hanrimwon Publishing Company | South Korea |
| 126 | RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS | 2.5 | Q2 | 101 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 127 | Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry | 2.5 | Q2 | 57 | Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) | Turkey |
| 128 | CROP SCIENCE | 2.4 | Q2 | 245 | Wiley | United States |
| 129 | Crops | 2.4 | Q2 | 16 | – | Switzerland |
| 130 | JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION | 2.4 | Q2 | 132 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 131 | PLANT CELL TISSUE AND ORGAN CULTURE | 2.4 | Q2 | 127 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 132 | Plant Physiology Reports | 2.4 | Q2 | 30 | Springer Nature | India |
| 133 | DNA RESEARCH | 2.3 | Q2 | 135 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 134 | ECONOMIC BOTANY | 2.3 | Q2 | 150 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 135 | PHOTOSYNTHETICA | 2.3 | Q2 | 107 | Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences | Czech Republic |
| 136 | Plant Direct | 2.3 | Q2 | 50 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 137 | Sugar Tech | 2.3 | Q2 | 59 | Springer Science+Business Media | India |
| 138 | Wine Economics and Policy | 2.3 | Q2 | 44 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 139 | CEREAL CHEMISTRY | 2.2 | Q2 | 154 | Wiley | United States |
| 140 | CEREAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS | 2.2 | Q2 | 52 | Springer Science+Business Media | Hungary |
| 141 | GENETIC RESOURCES AND CROP EVOLUTION | 2.2 | Q2 | 103 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 142 | International Journal of Vegetable Science | 2.2 | Q2 | 35 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 143 | Phytobiomes Journal | 2.2 | Q2 | 43 | American Phytopathological Society | United States |
| 144 | PLANT PRODUCTION SCIENCE | 2.2 | Q2 | 73 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 145 | PRESLIA | 2.2 | Q2 | 48 | Czech Botanical Society | Czech Republic |
| 146 | SYMBIOSIS | 2.2 | Q2 | 73 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 147 | Technology in Horticulture | 2.2 | Q2 | 10 | – | – |
| 148 | Vegetation Classification and Survey | 2.2 | Q2 | 13 | Pensoft Publishers | – |
| 149 | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY | 2.1 | Q2 | 139 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 150 | Grass Research | 2.1 | Q2 | 13 | – | United States |
| 151 | JOURNAL OF APPLIED GENETICS | 2.1 | Q2 | 70 | Springer Nature | Germany |
| 152 | JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE | 2.1 | Q2 | 125 | Wiley | Germany |
| 153 | Plant Gene | 2.1 | Q2 | 45 | Elsevier BV | Netherlands |
| 154 | Tree Genetics & Genomes | 2.1 | Q2 | 85 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 155 | Vegetable Research | 2.1 | Q2 | 14 | – | United States |
| 156 | Folia Horticulturae | 2.0 | Q2 | 33 | Polska Towarzystwo Nauk Ogrodniczych | Poland |
| 157 | Fruit Research | 2.0 | Q2 | 16 | – | United States |
| 158 | JOURNAL OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY | 2.0 | Q2 | 49 | Springer Science+Business Media | India |
| 159 | Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Agrarias-Agraria | 2.0 | Q2 | 26 | Federal Rural University of Pernambuco | Brazil |
| 160 | WEED SCIENCE | 2.0 | Q2 | 147 | Cambridge University Press | United States |
| 161 | AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH | 1.9 | Q2 | 52 | Springer Science+Business Media | India |
| 162 | Dendrobiology | 1.9 | Q2 | 28 | Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe | Poland |
| 163 | in silico Plants | 1.9 | Q2 | 26 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 164 | MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS | 1.9 | Q2 | 137 | Springer Science+Business Media | Germany |
| 165 | Plant Biotechnology Reports | 1.9 | Q2 | 59 | Springer Science+Business Media | Japan |
| 166 | SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION | 1.9 | Q2 | 109 | Taylor & Francis | Japan |
| 167 | Applied Fruit Science | 1.8 | Q2 | 14 | Springer Science+Business Media | – |
| 168 | Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine | 1.8 | Q2 | 108 | Medknow | – |
| 169 | EUPHYTICA | 1.8 | Q2 | 167 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 170 | GENOME | 1.8 | Q2 | 148 | NRC Research Press | Canada |
| 171 | IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-PLANT | 1.8 | Q2 | 136 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 172 | International Journal of Agronomy | 1.8 | Q2 | 48 | Hindawi Publishing Corporation | United Kingdom |
| 173 | PHYTON-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY | 1.8 | Q2 | 30 | – | United States |
| 174 | PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTER | 1.8 | Q2 | 109 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 175 | HEREDITAS | 1.7 | Q2 | 113 | BioMed Central | Sweden |
| 176 | FOLIA GEOBOTANICA | 1.7 | Q3 | 61 | Springer Nature (Netherlands) | Netherlands |
| 177 | Journal of the ASABE | 1.7 | Q3 | 16 | – | United States |
| 178 | Plant | 1.7 | Q3 | 19 | Wiley | United States |
| 179 | PLANT BIOSYSTEMS | 1.7 | Q3 | 72 | Taylor & Francis | Italy |
| 180 | Tropical Plant Biology | 1.7 | Q3 | 42 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 181 | ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY | 1.6 | Q3 | 147 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 182 | BREEDING SCIENCE | 1.6 | Q3 | 86 | Japanese Society of Breeding | Japan |
| 183 | Hacquetia | 1.6 | Q3 | 20 | De Gruyter Open | – |
| 184 | Journal of Agromedicine | 1.6 | Q3 | 51 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 185 | JOURNAL OF GENERAL PLANT PATHOLOGY | 1.6 | Q3 | 61 | Springer Science+Business Media | Japan |
| 186 | NUCLEUS-INDIA | 1.6 | Q3 | 26 | Springer Science+Business Media | India |
| 187 | Soil Science Annual | 1.6 | Q3 | 26 | De Gruyter Open | Poland |
| 188 | Tropical Plant Pathology | 1.6 | Q3 | 47 | Springer Science+Business Media | Brazil |
| 189 | WEED RESEARCH | 1.6 | Q3 | 115 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 190 | ACTA SOCIETATIS BOTANICORUM POLONIAE | 1.5 | Q3 | 52 | Polish Botanical Society | Poland |
| 191 | AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ENOLOGY AND VITICULTURE | 1.5 | Q3 | 141 | American Society for Enology and Viticulture | United States |
| 192 | Australasian Plant Disease Notes | 1.5 | Q3 | 29 | Springer Science+Business Media | Australia |
| 193 | JOURNAL OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY | 1.5 | Q3 | 97 | Wiley | Germany |
| 194 | JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY | 1.5 | Q3 | 52 | Springer Science+Business Media | Italy |
| 195 | Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca | 1.5 | Q3 | 59 | Academic Press | – |
| 196 | PLANT BREEDING | 1.5 | Q3 | 106 | Wiley | Germany |
| 197 | PLANT PROTECTION SCIENCE | 1.5 | Q3 | 42 | Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences | Czech Republic |
| 198 | PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION | 1.5 | Q3 | 113 | Springer Science+Business Media | Austria |
| 199 | TURKISH JOURNAL OF BOTANY | 1.5 | Q3 | 48 | Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) | Turkey |
| 200 | Advances in Agriculture | 1.4 | Q3 | 34 | Hindawi Publishing Corporation | United Kingdom |
| 201 | Journal of Berry Research | 1.4 | Q3 | 43 | IOS Press | Netherlands |
| 202 | Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology | 1.4 | Q3 | 43 | Springer International Publishing | South Korea |
| 203 | JOURNAL OF NEMATOLOGY | 1.4 | Q3 | 32 | Exeley Inc | United States |
| 204 | JOURNAL OF PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH | 1.4 | Q3 | 47 | De Gruyter Open | Poland |
| 205 | NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF CROP AND HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE | 1.4 | Q3 | 63 | Taylor & Francis | New Zealand |
| 206 | PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURAL SCIENTIST | 1.4 | Q3 | 15 | – | – |
| 207 | Plant Genetic Resources-Characterization and Utilization | 1.4 | Q3 | 52 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 208 | Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia-Brazilian Journal of Pharmacognosy | 1.4 | Q3 | 88 | Springer Science+Business Media | Brazil |
| 209 | Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura | 1.4 | Q3 | 51 | Sociedade Brasileira de Fruticultura | Brazil |
| 210 | AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POTATO RESEARCH | 1.3 | Q3 | 91 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 211 | Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology | 1.3 | Q3 | 24 | Life Sciences Society of Pakistan | – |
| 212 | BRAGANTIA | 1.3 | Q3 | 55 | Instituto Agronômico de Campinas | Brazil |
| 213 | Horticultural Science & Technology | 1.3 | Q3 | 27 | Korean Society for Horticultural Science | South Korea |
| 214 | Journal of Crop Improvement | 1.3 | Q3 | 47 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 215 | Journal of Seed Science | 1.3 | Q3 | 31 | Associação Brasileira de Tecnologia de Sementes | Brazil |
| 216 | PHYTOPATHOLOGIA MEDITERRANEA | 1.3 | Q3 | 38 | Firenze University Press | Italy |
| 217 | TAXON | 1.3 | Q3 | 202 | Wiley | United States |
| 218 | World Mycotoxin Journal | 1.3 | Q3 | 60 | – | Netherlands |
| 219 | Agrivita | 1.2 | Q3 | 24 | Brawijaya University | – |
| 220 | INDIAN JOURNAL OF GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING | 1.2 | Q3 | 40 | Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding | India |
| 221 | JOURNAL OF HERBS SPICES AND MEDICINAL PLANTS | 1.2 | Q3 | 43 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 222 | JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE | 1.2 | Q3 | 129 | American Society for Horticultural Science | – |
| 223 | PLANT DISEASE | 1.2 | Q3 | 177 | American Phytopathological Society | United States |
| 224 | Revista Caatinga | 1.2 | Q3 | 32 | Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido | Brazil |
| 225 | RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | 1.2 | Q3 | 73 | Pleiades Publishing | Russia |
| 226 | COMPOST SCIENCE & UTILIZATION | 1.2 | – | 68 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 227 | ACTA BOTANICA CROATICA | 1.1 | Q3 | 30 | De Gruyter Open | – |
| 228 | CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE | 1.1 | Q3 | 112 | Canadian Science Publishing | Canada |
| 229 | HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE | 1.1 | Q3 | 39 | Q11087838 | Czech Republic |
| 230 | HORTSCIENCE | 1.1 | Q3 | 146 | American Society for Horticultural Science | United States |
| 231 | PhytoFrontiers | 1.1 | Q3 | 16 | – | – |
| 232 | SCIENTIA AGRICOLA | 1.1 | Q3 | 89 | University of São Paulo | Brazil |
| 233 | SEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | 1.1 | Q3 | 66 | International Seed Testing Association | – |
| 234 | Advances in Weed Science | 1.0 | Q3 | 14 | Sociedade Brasileira da Ciência das Plantas Daninhas | Brazil |
| 235 | BIOLOGIA PLANTARUM | 1.0 | Q3 | 116 | Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences | Czech Republic |
| 236 | BRYOLOGIST | 1.0 | Q3 | 110 | American Bryological and Lichenological Society | United States |
| 237 | Horticultura Brasileira | 1.0 | Q3 | 48 | Associação Brasileira de Olericultura | Brazil |
| 238 | Horticulture Journal | 1.0 | Q3 | 28 | Japanese Society for Horticultural Science | Japan |
| 239 | Italian Journal of Agrometeorology-Rivista Italiana di Agrometeorologia | 1.0 | Q3 | 8 | Firenze University Press | Italy |
| 240 | Mediterranean Botany | 1.0 | Q3 | 15 | Complutense University of Madrid | Spain |
| 241 | PHYTOCOENOLOGIA | 1.0 | Q3 | 52 | Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung | Germany |
| 242 | SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ENOLOGY AND VITICULTURE | 1.0 | Q3 | 56 | South African Society for Enology and Viticulture | South Africa |
| 243 | Turkish Journal of Field Crops | 1.0 | Q3 | 27 | – | Turkey |
| 244 | WEED TECHNOLOGY | 1.0 | Q3 | 107 | Cambridge University Press | United States |
| 245 | ACTA AGROBOTANICA | 0.9 | Q3 | 29 | Polish Botanical Society | Poland |
| 246 | Acta Scientiarum Polonorum-Hortorum Cultus | 0.9 | Q3 | 24 | University of Life Sciences in Lublin | Poland |
| 247 | ARCHIVES OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY AND PLANT PROTECTION | 0.9 | Q3 | 45 | Taylor & Francis | Germany |
| 248 | AUSTRALASIAN PLANT PATHOLOGY | 0.9 | Q3 | 80 | Springer Science+Business Media | Australia |
| 249 | Botany | 0.9 | Q3 | 64 | Canadian Science Publishing | Canada |
| 250 | GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS | 0.9 | Q3 | 65 | Genetics Society of Japan | Japan |
Showing the top 250 of 337 plant science journals. The remaining 87 are mostly Q3 and Q4; find them with the journal rankings filter or the journal search.
Most plant science journals on this list are published in United States (53), United Kingdom (42), Netherlands (40), Germany (29), Brazil (18).
By the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, the five highest-ranked plant science journals are Annual Review of Plant Biology, CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES, Molecular Plant, PLANT CELL, Annual Review of Phytopathology. The score is a two-year citation average, so check each journal's scope and article types before choosing where to submit.
90 of the 337 plant science journals on this page are Q1, meaning they rank in the top quarter of their OpenAlex subfield by score. 85 are Q2, 92 are Q3 and 69 are Q4.
A journal is included when at least two of its four main OpenAlex research topics are classified under Plant Science. Journals are ordered by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score: citations received in the latest complete year to works published in the two years before, divided by the number of those works. Quartiles compare each journal with every journal in the same subfield.