Plant Science journals by time to acceptance (2025)
69 journals with 2025 figures · median days from submission to acceptance, measured from PubMed dates · data as of Sep 15, 2026
Sorted by median days from submission to acceptance in 2025. Faster is not better — this is a planning aid, not a ranking of quality. Click a column to re-sort.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plants | 37 (29–49) | 3,875 | 3 | ≈$3,300 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.06 |
| Toxins | 37 (30–48) | 591 | 3 | ≈$3,300 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| The Plant Cell | 37 (9–99) | 285 | — | ≈$4,934 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Plant Cell Reports | 56 (39–87) | 275 | 16 | ≈$4,590 | — | 0.0 |
| Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology | 66 (51–100) | 544 | 2 | ≈$4,350 | — | 0.57 |
| Hereditas | 67 (49–98) | 251 | 17 | $2,690 | Open access (DOAJ) | 2.33 |
| Frontiers in Plant Science | 70 (49–104) | 3,153 | 24 | ≈$3,850 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.55 |
| Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine | 70 (50–103) | 90 | 26 | $3,590 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| The Plant Pathology Journal | 70 (46–100) | 71 | 56 | $850 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| MycoKeys | 71 (49–90) | 199 | 29 | ≈$1,096 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Plant Foods for Human Nutrition | 75 (46–125) | 61 | 22 | ≈$3,990 | — | 0.0 |
| Journal of Plant Physiology | 76 (55–115) | 162 | 1 | ≈$3,370 | — | 0.0 |
| IMA Fungus | 78 (59–105) | 83 | 28 | ≈$2,250 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
| Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding | 80 (54–123) | 131 | — | No fee (DOAJ) | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Trends in Plant Science | 82 (48–136) | 185 | 24 | ≈$7,030 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Functional & Integrative Genomics | 84 (61–117) | 280 | 20 | ≈$2,690 | — | 24.92 |
| Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 84 (62–120) | 105 | 25 | ≈$4,810 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Microbiological Research | 87 (61–126) | 282 | 2 | ≈$4,470 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| TURKISH JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY | 87 (65–110) | 54 | 0 | No fee (DOAJ) | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | 90 (30–146) | 670 | — | ≈$3,851 | Hybrid | 0.32 |
| Plant Physiology and Biochemistry | 94 (65–138) | 1,367 | 1 | ≈$3,990 | Hybrid | 0.75 |
| Mycorrhiza | 94 (72–147) | 67 | 20 | ≈$3,990 | — | 0.0 |
| Journal of genetics and genomics/Journal of Genetics and Genomics | 96 (66–130) | 126 | 7 | ≈$3,140 | — | 0.0 |
| Fungal Genetics and Biology | 96 (74–125) | 54 | 5 | ≈$3,210 | — | 0.0 |
| Journal of Integrative Plant Biology | 97 (50–173) | 264 | 30 | ≈$3,000 | — | 0.0 |
| Plant Biology | 99 (56–163) | 185 | 36 | ≈$3,400 | — | 0.0 |
| Plant Methods | 99 (72–148) | 168 | 18 | $3,190 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Rice | 99 (73–138) | 119 | 18 | $3,190 | Open access (DOAJ) | 2.41 |
| New Phytologist | 100 (70–138) | 887 | 27 | ≈$5,790 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Planta | 102 (66–151) | 302 | 14 | ≈$4,590 | Hybrid | 1.5 |
| BMC Plant Biology | 104 (72–161) | 1,992 | 21 | $3,190 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Plant Science | 105 (76–143) | 476 | 2 | ≈$3,760 | — | 0.0 |
| Molecular Plant | 105 (30–179) | 223 | 3 | ≈$5,000 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Annals of Botany | 108 (77–144) | 301 | — | ≈$3,617 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Physiologia Plantarum | 110 (80–161) | 652 | — | ≈$4,150 | — | 0.52 |
| PROTOPLASMA | 111 (72–151) | 115 | 14 | ≈$3,690 | — | 0.0 |
| Molecular Plant Pathology | 112 (86–149) | 144 | — | $3,660 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Stress Biology | 112 (71–144) | 65 | 83 | No fee (DOAJ) | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Plant-Environment Interactions | 115 (83–168) | 82 | 17 | $2,940 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
| Pest Management Science | 116 (78–166) | 858 | 17 | ≈$5,360 | — | 0.33 |
| Mobile DNA | 116 (73–145) | 51 | 21 | $3,190 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
| Plant Biotechnology Journal | 117 (80–176) | 571 | 20 | $4,750 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Molecular Breeding | 118 (69–165) | 95 | 20 | ≈$3,990 | — | 0.0 |
| Horticulture Research | 121 (97–156) | 328 | 10 | $2,960 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.66 |
| aBIOTECH | 121 (88–135) | 55 | 21 | ≈$2,190 | — | — |
| Fungal Biology | 125 (81–173) | 117 | 1 | ≈$2,500 | — | 0.0 |
| The Plant Genome | 126 (93–174) | 187 | — | $3,520 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Plant and Cell Physiology | 126 (90–185) | 171 | — | ≈$3,085 | Hybrid | 1.26 |
| 3 Biotech | 131 (91–185) | 493 | 21 | ≈$4,090 | — | 0.97 |
| Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 133 (97–190) | 326 | 23 | ≈$5,190 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Journal of Experimental Botany | 134 (94–181) | 503 | — | ≈$4,341 | Hybrid | 0.8 |
| Journal of Heredity | 134 (96–187) | 102 | — | ≈$3,560 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Plant Cell & Environment | 136 (86–205) | 649 | 13 | ≈$5,440 | — | 0.0 |
| Journal of Plant Research | 137 (86–195) | 65 | 20 | ≈$3,890 | — | 0.0 |
| The Plant Journal | 139 (99–194) | 640 | — | ≈$5,450 | Hybrid | 0.4 |
| Functional Plant Biology | 141 (99–197) | 96 | — | — | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Tree Physiology | 144 (99–199) | 164 | — | ≈$4,253 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Molecular Genetics and Genomics | 144 (99–214) | 121 | 26 | ≈$3,990 | — | 1.8 |
| American Journal of Botany | 150 (106–237) | 150 | 66 | ≈$2,660 | — | 0.0 |
| Plant Communications | 153 (106–196) | 260 | 3 | $3,500 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Environmental Microbiome | 153 (115–195) | 183 | 19 | $2,590 | Open access (DOAJ) | 2.15 |
| Plant Molecular Biology | 158 (102–207) | 119 | 31 | ≈$4,590 | — | 0.0 |
| Plant Direct | 158 (100–225) | 89 | 26 | $3,120 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants | 161 (113–222) | 162 | 23 | ≈$3,890 | — | 0.0 |
| Journal of Applied Genetics | 178 (110–241) | 104 | 19 | ≈$3,790 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Scientifica | 191 (122–298) | 155 | 25 | $1,150 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| AoB Plants | 191 (140–226) | 79 | 6 | ≈$1,367 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Molecular Horticulture | 195 (143–253) | 58 | 148 | $2,600 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
| Nature Plants | 246 (174–333) | 176 | 39 | ≈$12,690 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
Journals are listed where at least 25% of their articles' topics fall in Plant Science (OpenAlex).
Latest available year: 2024
5 journals without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2024 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Biotechnology | 76 (51–108) | 56 | — | — | Open access | 0.0 |
| Plant Phenomics | 129 (105–159) | 97 | 38 | $2,500 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Mycotoxin Research | 134 (94–171) | 61 | 15 | ≈$3,790 | Hybrid | — |
| Avicenna journal of phytomedicine | 135 (82–191) | 71 | — | 3,000,000 IRR | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Genetics and Molecular Biology | 191 (151–273) | 73 | 66 | $700 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
Latest available year: 2022
2 journals without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2022 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers in Fungal Biology | 52 (36–70) | 76 | 28 | ≈$2,383 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Bulletin of the National Research Centre/Bulletin of the National Research Center | 89 (51–162) | 51 | 13 | No fee (DOAJ) | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
Latest available year: 2021
3 journals without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2021 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postępy Biochemii | 33 (22–49) | 50 | 35 | — | Open access | — |
| Journal of Experimental Pharmacology | 74 (55–98) | 65 | 24 | $3,940 | Open access (DOAJ) | 4.42 |
| Ikushugaku zasshi | 111 (81–157) | 51 | 93 | — | Open access | 0.0 |
Latest available year: 2020
1 journal without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2020 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biologia Futura | 130 (92–211) | 54 | 24 | ≈$3,490 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
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Among 69 Plant Science journals with enough dated articles in 2025, the shortest median time from submission to acceptance was 37 days (Plants). The middle journal's median was 110 days. Speed is not a measure of quality; check scope, indexing and fees too.
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Data sources. Submission, acceptance and publication dates: Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (PubMed, entries through Sep 15, 2026). NLM does not endorse Journal Clock, and these figures may not reflect the most current PubMed data. Journal fees and open-access listing: DOAJ (CC0, retrieved Sep 16, 2026). Fees paid by institutions: OpenAPC (Open Database License, retrieved Sep 16, 2026). Retractions: Retraction Watch Database via Crossref (retrieved Sep 16, 2026). Journal identifiers and topics: OpenAlex (CC0). Currency conversion: ECB reference rates (Sep 15, 2026). How these numbers are calculated · For organisations.