Plant Science · 311 journals indexed
Best open-access journals for Plant Science
The top Plant Science journals open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile then cites/paper, drawn from a 17,786-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).
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- 5Horticulture Research6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature PortfolioOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 7Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 8Environmental and Experimental Botany5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 9Pharmaceutical Biology5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 10Journal of King Saud University - Science5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 11Frontiers in Plant Science4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 13Smart Agricultural Technology4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 16Plants4.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 17Agronomy4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 18Agriculture4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 19Plant Signaling & Behavior4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 20Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 21Journal of Fungi3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 23Horticulturae3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 24The Plant Genome3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Crop Science Society of AmericaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 25AgriEngineering3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 26Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions3.0 cites/paper · Q1 · American Phytopathological SocietyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 27Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control3.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer NatureOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 28Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 29Journal of Integrative Agriculture2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 30Scientifica2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Hindawi Publishing CorporationOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 35The Plant Pathology Journal2.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Hanrimwon Publishing CompanyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 36Plant Production Science2.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 38Ethnobotany Research and Applications0.7 cites/paper · Q1 · University of Hawaii PressOpen AccessScopus
- 39Toxins3.9 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 40Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences3.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Springer Science+Business MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.
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