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Best open-access journals for Plant Science

The top Plant Science journals open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile then cites/paper, drawn from an17,538-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 free Journal Finder.

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  1. 1
    Plant Stress
    5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Plant Biotechnology Journal
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Horticulture Research
    5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
    5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    Plant Methods
    5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    The Crop Journal
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · KeAi
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    Journal of King Saud University - Science
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    Environmental and Experimental Botany
    4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Pharmaceutical Biology
    4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    Frontiers in Plant Science
    4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    Rice
    4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    Smart Agricultural Technology
    4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    Scientia Horticulturae
    4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  14. 14
    BMC Plant Biology
    4.0 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    Plants
    3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    Agriculture
    3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    Plant Signaling & Behavior
    3.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Agronomy
    3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
    3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Molecular Plant Pathology
    3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  21. 21
    Journal of Fungi
    3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  22. 22
    Horticulturae
    2.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    AgriEngineering
    2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  24. 24
    The Plant Genome
    2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Crop Science Society of America
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research
    2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
    2.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Phytopathological Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control
    2.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  28. 28
    Rice Science
    2.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  29. 29
    Journal of Integrative Agriculture
    2.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    MycoKeys
    2.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Pensoft Publishers
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    Scientifica
    2.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Hindawi Publishing Corporation
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    Plant Production Science
    2.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    OENO One
    2.1 cites/paper · Q1 · ADERA
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  34. 34
    AoB Plants
    2.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    The Plant Pathology Journal
    2.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Hanrimwon Publishing Company
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Anbar Journal of Agricultural Sciences
    1.3 cites/paper · Q1
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  37. 37
    Ethnobotany Research and Applications
    0.7 cites/paper · Q1 · University of Hawaii Press
    Open AccessScopus
  38. 38
    Toxins
    3.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
    2.9 cites/paper · Q2 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  40. 40
    Cogent Food & Agriculture
    2.7 cites/paper · Q2 · Cogent OA
    Open 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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