Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Field ranking · 2000
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2000
511 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 511 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.45, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.84. The top three are Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, The American Naturalist, and Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1Annual Review of Ecology and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 8.21Q1 | 7.93no 1999 value | 67 | 4% | — | — | |
2The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.09Q1 | 4.24no 1999 value | 393 | 5% | — | — | |
3Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden · United States | 3.80Q1 | 5.10no 1999 value | 82 | 86% | — | — | |
4The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.55Q1 | 6.29no 1999 value | 1,074 | 46% | $4,934 | — | |
5Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 1.39no 1999 value | 158 | 3% | $4,090 | — | |
6The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 6.49no 1999 value | 926 | 50% | $5,450 | — | |
7Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.20Q1 | 1.24no 1999 value | 95 | 30% | $3,920 | — | |
8Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.14Q1 | 4.08no 1999 value | 402 | 51% | $3,000 | — | |
9Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.07Q1 | 3.52no 1999 value | 56 | 0% | — | — | |
10OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 2.75no 1999 value | 669 | 12% | $3,640 | — | |
11Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 3.00no 1999 value | 119 | 0% | — | — | |
12Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 2.53no 1999 value | 280 | 33% | $3,906 | — | |
13Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 3.14no 1999 value | 446 | 56% | $5,440 | — | |
14Food technologyInstitute of Food Technologists · United States | 2.53Q1 | 2.00no 1999 value | 55 | 0% | — | — | |
15Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 3.66no 1999 value | 957 | 99% | — | — | |
16The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 2.27no 1999 value | 50 | 8% | $3,790 | — | |
17Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.38Q1 | 2.37no 1999 value | 344 | 6% | $3,590 | — | |
18PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.37Q1 | 4.74no 1999 value | 1,573 | 81% | $3,851 | — | |
19Systematic BotanyAmerican Society of Plant Taxonomists · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.56no 1999 value | 161 | 5% | — | — | |
20Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 2.35Q1 | 3.79no 1999 value | 295 | 6% | $3,830 | — | |
21The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 0.55no 1999 value | 71 | 18% | — | — | |
22American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.19Q1 | 2.53no 1999 value | 600 | 24% | $2,660 | — | |
23New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 2.43no 1999 value | 662 | 51% | $5,790 | — | |
24PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.09Q1 | 3.59no 1999 value | 694 | 7% | $4,590 | — | |
25Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 2.07no 1999 value | 102 | 9% | $5,300 | — | |
26Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 2.36no 1999 value | 907 | 7% | $2,740 | — | |
27Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 1.96Q1 | 1.38no 1999 value | 742 | 14% | $2,020 | — | |
28Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 2.01no 1999 value | 326 | 40% | $3,000 | — | |
29EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 1.88Q1 | 2.98no 1999 value | 1,253 | 12% | $3,214 | — | |
30European Journal of Soil ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 1.51no 1999 value | 249 | 16% | $4,490 | — | |
31GeodermaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 1.15no 1999 value | 338 | 18% | $3,320 | — | |
32Soil Use and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 1.59no 1999 value | 139 | 3% | $4,120 | — | |
33MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.76Q1 | 1.42no 1999 value | 145 | 3% | $3,990 | — | |
34Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 0.78no 1999 value | 128 | 16% | $4,150 | — | |
35Evolutionary EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 1.45no 1999 value | 185 | 2% | $2,590 | — | |
36Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 1.95no 1999 value | 721 | 3% | $4,950 | — | |
37Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 1.40no 1999 value | 829 | 7% | $4,790 | — | |
38Ecological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 1.52no 1999 value | 189 | 15% | $4,410 | — | |
39Zoologica ScriptaWiley · Sweden | 1.68Q1 | 1.38no 1999 value | 67 | 13% | $4,100 | — | |
40Soil ScienceLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.68Q1 | 1.08no 1999 value | 349 | 2% | — | — | |
41Molecular BreedingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 2.73no 1999 value | 161 | 7% | $3,990 | — | |
42Physiological and Molecular Plant PathologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 2.29no 1999 value | 164 | 8% | $3,550 | — | |
43Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 3.09no 1999 value | 964 | 4% | $4,590 | — | |
44Journal of Food ProtectionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.34no 1999 value | 748 | 100% | $2,300 | — | |
45Plant Systematics and EvolutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.53Q1 | 1.84no 1999 value | 289 | 2% | $3,990 | — | |
46Nutrient Cycling in AgroecosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 0.96no 1999 value | 243 | 7% | $3,890 | — | |
47Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 2.55no 1999 value | 984 | 6% | $5,190 | — | |
48International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 2.09no 1999 value | 497 | 6% | $4,090 | — | |
49Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.35no 1999 value | 184 | 1% | $4,990 | — | |
50Systematic EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 2.15no 1999 value | 56 | 16% | $4,520 | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science215
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics95
- Food Science57
- Insect Science36
- Animal Science and Zoology26
- Agronomy and Crop Science25
- Soil Science24
- Aquatic Science16
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences15
- Forestry2
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
246 additional Agricultural and Biological Sciences journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 511
- Window papers (baseline)
- 200,144 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.448 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 511 | 569 | 595 | 631 | 627 | 643 | 670 | 696 | 707 | 755 | 809 | 857 | 902 | 956 | 1,007 | 1,066 | 1,098 | 1,119 | 1,133 | 1,134 | 1,130 | 1,117 | 1,114 | 1,105 | 1,094 | 1,096 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 200,144 | 231,427 | 246,134 | 264,449 | 261,081 | 277,391 | 297,451 | 323,008 | 349,012 | 381,325 | 425,469 | 471,184 | 501,593 | 520,260 | 541,091 | 572,424 | 593,779 | 602,980 | 613,440 | 635,565 | 669,420 | 715,658 | 750,083 | 770,538 | 777,286 | 816,566 | |
| Median OJR | 0.448 | 0.412 | 0.409 | 0.454 | 0.450 | 0.414 | 0.462 | 0.463 | 0.556 | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.65 | 0.66 | 0.63 | 0.6241 | 0.587 | 0.557 | 0.563 | 0.55 | 0.594 | 0.62487 | 0.62485 | 0.615 | 0.6243 | 0.61 | 0.617 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.8% | 812 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.681 per 1,000 | 783 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -5.7% | 996 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 100.0% | 1,096 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,000 | 600 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 25.7% | 1,043 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 1,096 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.62 | 1,087 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 34.5% | 1,096 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.9% | 1,095 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.