Table 2.
Top 30 Plant Science journals, as determined by their SCImago Journal Rank (http://scimagojr.com).
| Rank | Title | SJR | 2014 Impact Factor | not plant-specific | Agriculture | Biochemistry | Bioinformatics | Cell Biology | Development | Ecology | Evolution | Genetics | Genomics | Metabolism | Molecular biology | Physiology | Plant-microbe interactions | Proteomics | Systems biology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease | 11.47 | 18.75 | x | x | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Annual Review of Plant Biology | 10.69 | 18.90 | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
| 3 | Trends in Plant Science | 5.72 | 13.48 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | X | x | ||
| 4 | Studies in Mycology | 5.05 | 13.25 | x | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 4.93 | 9.62 | x | x | x | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Plant Cell | 4.83 | 9.34 | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||
| 7 | Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 4.39 | 7.85 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| 8 | Plant Physiology | 3.42 | 6.84 | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
| 9 | BMC Biology | 3.27 | 7.43 | x | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Plant Journal | 3.24 | 5.97 | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
| 11 | Journal of Ecology | 3.02 | 5.43 | x | x | ||||||||||||||
| 12 | New Phytologist | 2.86 | 7.67 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| 13 | Molecular Plant | 2.79 | 6.34 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||
| 14 | Persoonia | 2.57 | 5.30 | x | |||||||||||||||
| 15 | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2.34 | 6.96 | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||
| 16 | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2.31 | 5.53 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
| 17 | Plant and Cell Physiology | 2.19 | 4.93 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||
| 18 | Fungal Diversity | 2.16 | 6.22 | x | |||||||||||||||
| 19 | Plant Biotechnology Journal | 2.03 | 5.75 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | X | |||||||
| 20 | Plant Molecular Biology | 1.76 | 4.26 | x | x | x | x | X | |||||||||||
| 21 | Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences | 1.74 | 5.44 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||
| 22 | Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics | 1.67 | 3.61 | x | x | ||||||||||||||
| 23 | Molecular Plant Pathology | 1.65 | 4.72 | x | x | ||||||||||||||
| 24 | Journal of Vegetation Science | 1.63 | 3.71 | x | |||||||||||||||
| 25 | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 1.62 | 2.93 | x | |||||||||||||||
| 26 | Frontiers in Plant Science | 1.55 | 3.95 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | X | x | ||
| 27 | Plant Methods | 1.54 | 3.10 | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
| 28 | Fungal Biology Reviews | 1.53 | N/A | x | |||||||||||||||
| 29 | BMC Plant Biology | 1.51 | 3.81 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||
| 30 | Plant Genome | 1.48 | 3.93 | x |
SJR (Scimago Journal Rank) refers to the “average number of weighted citations received in the selected year by the documents published in the selected journal in the three previous years” (SJR - Help 1). The subdisciplines for each journal were taken from their website. The “not plant-specific” column means the journal was listed as a plant science journal in SJR, however its scope is broader. Database accessed March 7, 2016.