Top 20 Journals in Botany Ranked by h5-index (2024)

List of Top Journals in Botany Ranked by h5-index (2024)

Sl. No Publication h5-index h5-median
1 Frontiers in Plant Science 144 205
2 New Phytologist 123 173
3 Nature Plants 102 150
4 Plant Physiology 95 120
5 Molecular Plant 94 125
6 Plants 90 122
7 Trends in Plant Science 88 143
8 Journal of Experimental Botany 88 107
9 The Plant Cell 87 119
10 The Plant Journal 84 113
11 Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 77 104
12 Scientia Horticulturae 76 99
13 Plant, Cell & Environment 75 103
14 BMC Plant Biology 71 93
15 Current Opinion in Plant Biology 69 98
16 Annual Review of Plant Biology 68 110
17 Environmental and Experimental Botany 66 91
18 Horticulture Research 63 86
19 Plant Science 61 84
20 Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 60 82

What is h5-index?

The h5-index is a bibliometric indicator created by Google Scholar that measures the number of articles published in the last five years that have at least h citations each. The h is the largest number of articles that have each been cited h times. For example, an h5-index of 60 means that a journal has published 60 articles in the past five years that have 60 or more citations each.

You can find the h5-index on scholar.google.com.

The h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index.

Journal Impact in Google Scholar

  • h-index of a publication is the largest number h such that at least h articles in that publication were cited at least h times each. For example, a publication with five articles cited by, respectively, 17, 9, 6, 3, and 2, has the h-index of 3.
  • h-core of a publication is a set of top cited h articles from the publication. These are the articles that the h-index is based on. For example, the publication above has the h-core with three articles, those cited by 17, 9, and 6.
  • h-median of a publication is the median of the citation counts in its h-core. For example, the h-median of the publication above is 9. The h-median is a measure of the distribution of citations to the articles in the h-core.

What are h5-index and h5-median

  • h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. For example, h5-index for 2023 is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2018-2022 have at least h citations each.

          For example,

For 2023, h5-index  for Nature of 365 means that 365 articles published in Nature in 2018-2022 have received at least 365 citations each.

  • h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index

Both the H5-index and H5-median are available in Google Scholar Metrics. Journals can be browsed by discipline (more information about disciplines is available in Journal Rankings) or searched by keyword.



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