474 Plant Science journals (Agricultural and Biological Sciences) in ORBIT Tier 1 with at least 10 papers in 2025. ORBIT Tier 1: top quarter of Agricultural and Biological Sciences by citation impact, our own ranking. Not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
As of 2 October 2026. From OpenAlex, Crossref and DOAJ. ORBIT Tier is our own ranking within a field, not a Scopus or Web of Science quartile.
| Journal | ISSN | Papers in 2025 | ORBIT Tier | Fee to publish | Open access | DOAJ | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plants | 2223-7747 | 3,886 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,11,377 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Frontiers in Plant Science | 1664-462X | 3,241 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,63,273 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Agronomy | 2073-4395 | 2,933 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,99,844 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Agriculture | 2077-0472 | 2,654 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,99,844 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| BMC Plant Biology | 1471-2229 | 1,980 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,03,641 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Ethnopharmacology | 0378-8741 | 1,637 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Horticulturae | 2311-7524 | 1,579 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,53,715 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Plant Physiology and Biochemistry | 0981-9428 | 1,399 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | France |
| Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | 0168-1699 | 1,387 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Chemistry & Biodiversity | 1612-1872 | 1,292 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Switzerland |
| Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems | 2571-581X | 1,168 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,24,883 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Plant and Soil | 0032-079X | 1,052 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| New Phytologist | 0028-646X | 1,014 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Smart Agricultural Technology | 2772-3755 | 1,004 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,97,474 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Applied Soil Ecology | 0929-1393 | 806 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Experimental Agriculture International | 2231-0606 | 765 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | India |
| The Plant Journal | 0960-7412 | 755 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Plant Cell & Environment | 0140-7791 | 713 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Journal of soil science and plant nutrition | 0718-9508 | 709 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Chile |
| Physiologia Plantarum | 0031-9317 | 709 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Postharvest Biology and Technology | 0925-5214 | 671 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Toxins | 2072-6651 | 612 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,11,377 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Scientia Horticulturae | 0304-4238 | 607 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,02,472 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Plant Biotechnology Journal | 1467-7644 | 604 | 1 | ≈ ₹4,57,561 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity | 1412-033X | 590 | 1 | ≈ ₹30,825 to publish | Yes | No | Indonesia |
| Journal of Experimental Botany | 0022-0957 | 567 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology | 0048-3575 | 564 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| International Journal of Agriculture and Biology | 1560-8530 | 557 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Pakistan |
| International Journal of Environment and Climate Change | 2581-8627 | 537 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | India |
| Plant Science | 0168-9452 | 516 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology | 0885-5765 | 491 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Plant Stress | 2667-064X | 482 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,54,307 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Applied Fruit Science | 2948-2623 | 480 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,26,554 to publish | No | No | |
| Field Crops Research | 0378-4290 | 475 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| AgriEngineering | 2624-7402 | 428 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,84,520 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| European Journal of Agronomy | 1161-0301 | 399 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Journal of Plant Growth Regulation | 0721-7595 | 399 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Integrative Agriculture | 2095-3119 | 397 | 1 | ≈ ₹96,329 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Discover Plants. | 3005-1207 | 376 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | Slovenia |
| Cogent Food & Agriculture | 2331-1932 | 375 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,11,441 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| HortScience | 0018-5345 | 375 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,88,986 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Journal of Stored Products Research | 0022-474X | 374 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Horticulture Research | 2052-7276 | 360 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,85,133 to publish | Yes | Yes | China |
| Sustainable landscape planning and natural resources management | 2948-1910 | 352 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Eswatini |
| Annals of Botany | 0305-7364 | 346 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Crop Protection | 0261-2194 | 340 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Natural Product Communications | 1555-9475 | 336 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,55,271 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 0040-5752 | 321 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences | 2319-7692 | 320 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | India |
| National Academy Science Letters | 0250-541X | 311 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | India |
| Microbiological Research | 0944-5013 | 306 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Journal of Integrative Plant Biology | 0577-7496 | 301 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Nature Plants | 2055-026X | 298 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Discover Agriculture | 2731-9598 | 283 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,18,627 to publish | Yes | Yes | |
| Genetics | 0016-6731 | 283 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Functional & Integrative Genomics | 1438-793X | 281 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| The Plant Cell | 1040-4651 | 276 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| SABRAO Journal of Breeding and Genetics | 1029-7073 | 269 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | |
| Agronomy Journal | 0002-1962 | 268 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Plant Communications | 2590-3462 | 262 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,37,150 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Archives of Virology | 0003-9012 | 261 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Austria |
| Russian Journal of Plant Physiology | 0015-3303 | 260 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | Russia |
| Hereditas | 0018-0661 | 259 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,49,225 to publish | Yes | Yes | Sweden |
| EDIS | 2576-0009 | 250 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Ethnobotany Research and Applications | 1547-3465 | 243 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United States |
| The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences | 0019-5022 | 242 | 1 | Free to publish — per DOAJ | Yes | Yes | India |
| Crop Science | 0011-183X | 237 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Journal of Research in Pharmacy | 2630-6344 | 234 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | Türkiye |
| Frontiers in Agronomy | 2673-3218 | 231 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,94,078 to publish | Yes | Yes | Switzerland |
| Rhizosphere | 2452-2198 | 230 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| Molecular Plant | 1674-2052 | 227 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | China |
| Biologia | 0006-3088 | 219 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Slovakia |
| Phyton | 0031-9457 | 218 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | United States |
| MycoKeys | 1314-4049 | 217 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,03,390 to publish | Yes | Yes | Bulgaria |
| Biochemical Systematics and Ecology | 0305-1978 | 216 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United Kingdom |
| Horticultural Plant Journal | 2095-9885 | 216 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,92,657 to publish | Yes | Yes | China |
| Trends in Plant Science | 1360-1385 | 214 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | United States |
| Euphytica | 0014-2336 | 208 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Environmental and Experimental Botany | 0098-8472 | 203 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,24,627 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Journal of Plant Nutrition | 0190-4167 | 202 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Current Research in Microbial Sciences | 2666-5174 | 200 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,17,884 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| Plant Biology | 1435-8603 | 198 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture | 2196-5641 | 189 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,60,108 to publish | Yes | Yes | Germany |
| Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca | 0255-965X | 186 | 1 | ≈ ₹81,624 to publish | Yes | Yes | Romania |
| Plants People Planet | 2572-2611 | 186 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,21,737 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Sugar Tech | 0972-1525 | 180 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | India |
| Journal of Plant Physiology | 0176-1617 | 179 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Molecular Plant Pathology | 1364-3703 | 171 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,52,563 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Plant Methods | 1746-4811 | 169 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,92,758 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Scientifica | 2090-908X | 159 | 1 | ≈ ₹1,10,778 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Food and Energy Security | 2048-3694 | 156 | 1 | ≈ ₹4,44,075 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development | 2152-0798 | 152 | 1 | ≈ ₹72,246 to publish | Yes | Yes | United States |
| Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science | 0931-2250 | 149 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Germany |
| Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis | 0010-3624 | 147 | 1 | Fee not published | No | No | United States |
| Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants | 0971-5894 | 147 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | India |
| Journal for Research in Applied Sciences and Biotechnology | 2583-4053 | 145 | 1 | Fee not published | Yes | No | India |
| Virus Research | 0168-1702 | 144 | 1 | ≈ ₹2,95,729 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
| The Scientific World JOURNAL | 1537-744X | 143 | 1 | ≈ ₹91,512 to publish | Yes | Yes | United Kingdom |
| Agriculture and Human Values | 0889-048X | 141 | 1 | Free via subscription (paywalled) | No | No | Netherlands |
| Current Plant Biology | 2214-6628 | 140 | 1 | ≈ ₹3,38,113 to publish | Yes | Yes | Netherlands |
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