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Best Plant Science journals
539 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Plant Science. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 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 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 34 | Journal of Plant Growth Regulation | 9.9 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 35 | Plant Stress | 9.8 | 93th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 36 | Journal of Pest Science | 9.2 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 37 | Molecular Plant Pathology | 9.2 | 93th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 38 | Legume Science | 9.1 | 93th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 39 | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine | 9.1 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 40 | Journal of Integrative Agriculture | 9 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 41 | Natural Products and Bioprospecting | 9 | 92th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 42 | Stress Biology | 8.9 | 92th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 43 | Journal of Plant Physiology | 8.8 | 92th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 44 | Plant Cell Reports | 8.8 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 45 | Journal of Fungi | 8.7 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 46 | Plant Methods | 8.7 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 47 | Plant Biology | 8.6 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 48 | Plant Growth Regulation | 8.5 | 91th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 49 | Plants | 8.5 | 91th | 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 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 89 | Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition | 6.1 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 90 | Life Science Alliance | 6.1 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 91 | Oil Crop Science | 6 | 83th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 92 | Protoplasma | 6 | 83th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 93 | EFSA Journal | 5.9 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 94 | Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control | 5.9 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 95 | Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science | 5.9 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 96 | Journal of Applied Phycology | 5.9 | 82th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 97 | Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment | 5.9 | 82th | Q1 | ESCI | – | Yes |
| 98 | Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science | 5.9 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
| 99 | Phytopathology Research | 5.8 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | Yes |
| 100 | Journal of Phycology | 5.7 | 81th | Q1 | SCIE | – | No |
Rank and percentile are within the Plant Science Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.