LibGuides: Plant sciences: High impact journals

High impact journals

The following list of journals are those with the highest Journal Impact Factor (JIF)* in the PLANT SCIENCES category in the 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

1.	Annual review of plant biology
2.	Trends in plant science
3.	Molecular plant
4.	Nature plants
5.	Plant biotechnology journal
6.	Plant cell
7.	Molecular horticulture
8.	Plant communications
9.	Journal of integrative plant biology
10.	Annual review of phytopathology

*The JIF is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. Please note that JIF is one metric for assessing the quality of research journals but not the only one.

Note: these results are based on data from the Web of Science Core collection only. For an in-depth explanation on its calculation and on Clarivate Journal Citation Reports please refer to this page.