Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Subfield ranking · 2000
Soil Science journal rankings 2000
24 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Soil Science has 24 ranked journals in 2000. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.13 against 1.00. A journal needs OJR 1.68 to reach Q1. The top three are Soil Science Society of America Journal, European Journal of Soil Science, and Geoderma.
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 of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
24 ranked journals
Filters
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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1Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 1.96Q1 | 1.38no 1999 value | 742 | 14% | $2,020 | — | |
2European Journal of Soil ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 1.51no 1999 value | 249 | 16% | $4,490 | — | |
3GeodermaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 1.15no 1999 value | 338 | 18% | $3,320 | — | |
4Soil Use and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 1.59no 1999 value | 139 | 3% | $4,120 | — | |
5Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 1.95no 1999 value | 721 | 3% | $4,950 | — | |
6Soil ScienceLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.68Q1 | 1.08no 1999 value | 349 | 2% | — | — | |
7Nutrient Cycling in AgroecosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.53Q2 | 0.96no 1999 value | 243 | 7% | $3,890 | — | |
8Biology and Fertility of SoilsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.39Q2 | 1.36no 1999 value | 417 | 5% | $4,790 | — | |
9Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q2 | 1.20no 1999 value | 364 | 8% | $4,190 | — | |
10Applied Soil EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 1.13no 1999 value | 269 | 12% | $4,320 | — | |
11Journal of Soil and Water ConservationSoil and Water Conservation Society · United States | 1.21Q2 | 1.04no 1999 value | 175 | 6% | — | — | |
12CATENAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.15Q2 | 1.19no 1999 value | 211 | 8% | $3,680 | — | |
13Soil ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.10Q3 | 0.85no 1999 value | 242 | 1% | — | — | |
14Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.04Q3 | 0.84no 1999 value | 364 | 10% | $4,570 | — | |
15Canadian Journal of Soil ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.99Q3 | 0.73no 1999 value | 236 | 43% | — | — | |
16Irrigation ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.87Q3 | 0.56no 1999 value | 50 | 8% | $3,990 | — | |
17European Journal of Soil BiologyElsevier BV · France | 0.67Q3 | 0.33no 1999 value | 59 | 11% | $3,800 | — | |
18Compost Science & UtilizationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.65Q3 | 0.55no 1999 value | 119 | 2% | — | — | |
19Irrigation and Drainage SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.63Q4 | 0.24no 1999 value | 63 | 14% | — | — | |
20Agricultural Water ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.55Q4 | 0.40no 1999 value | 209 | 14% | $3,070 | — | |
21Land Degradation and DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 0.55Q4 | 0.47no 1999 value | 148 | 6% | $5,230 | — | |
22PedobiologiaElsevier BV · Germany | 0.52Q4 | 0.35no 1999 value | 244 | 3% | $3,260 | — | |
23Revista Brasileira de Ciência do SoloOASociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo · Brazil | 0.41Q4 | 0.49no 1999 value | 251 | 97% | $100 | — | |
24Archives of Agronomy and Soil ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.15Q4 | 0.16no 1999 value | 149 | 0% | — | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Soil Science highlighted.
- 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.
5 additional Soil Science 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
- 24
- Window papers (baseline)
- 7,748 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 1.13 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 33 | 35 | 37 | 37 | 39 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 41 | 42 | 40 | 39 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,748 | 9,099 | 10,240 | 11,138 | 11,116 | 11,430 | 12,496 | 14,005 | 15,614 | 17,540 | 20,048 | 22,776 | 24,823 | 26,542 | 28,955 | 32,598 | 35,237 | 37,010 | 38,759 | 41,955 | 45,293 | 48,749 | 50,177 | 51,294 | 52,438 | 56,582 | |
| Median OJR | 1.13 | 1.23 | 1.255 | 1.34 | 1.31 | 1.245 | 1.238 | 1.358 | 1.433 | 1.428 | 1.59 | 1.556 | 1.64 | 1.66 | 1.557 | 1.42 | 1.53 | 1.39 | 1.33 | 1.253 | 1.28 | 1.20 | 1.356 | 1.247 | 1.243 | 1.29 |
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.