Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Field ranking · 2001
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2001
569 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 569 ranked journals in 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.41, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 0.83. The top three are Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Sociologia Ruralis, and The American Naturalist.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. 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 1998–2000, the window the 2001 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 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 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 2001. | Compare |
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1Annual Review of Ecology and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 9.20Q1 | 7.93no change | 63 | 5% | — | ||
2Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 4.17Q1 | 1.36 0.12 up from 2000 | 90 | 14% | $3,920 | ||
3The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.95Q1 | 4.28 0.03 up from 2000 | 415 | 7% | — | ||
4The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 1.14 0.59 up from 2000 | 79 | 3% | — | ||
5Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden · United States | 3.78Q1 | 3.03 2.07 down from 2000 | 94 | 11% | — | ||
6Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.51Q1 | 4.40 0.31 up from 2000 | 428 | 54% | $3,000 | ||
7The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 5.88 0.61 down from 2000 | 940 | 51% | $5,450 | ||
8The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.26Q1 | 5.96 0.32 down from 2000 | 1,120 | 39% | $4,934 | ||
9Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 3.04 0.04 up from 2000 | 122 | 0% | — | ||
10Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.15Q1 | 3.55 0.03 up from 2000 | 38 | 12% | — | ||
11OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 2.84 0.09 up from 2000 | 715 | 13% | $3,640 | ||
12Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 3.79 0.65 up from 2000 | 408 | 63% | $5,440 | ||
13Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 3.73 0.07 up from 2000 | 1,066 | 97% | — | ||
14Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 1.25 0.14 down from 2000 | 149 | 2% | $4,090 | ||
15PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.72Q1 | 4.90 0.16 up from 2000 | 1,567 | 69% | $3,851 | ||
16Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 2.59Q1 | 2.26 0.30 down from 2000 | 34 | 0% | $3,570 | ||
17Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 2.65 0.13 up from 2000 | 275 | 33% | $3,906 | ||
18Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 2.69 0.33 up from 2000 | 888 | 5% | $2,740 | ||
19New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 2.68 0.25 up from 2000 | 636 | 49% | $5,790 | ||
20Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 2.00 0.02 down from 2000 | 343 | 53% | $3,000 | ||
21Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 2.26Q1 | 1.67 0.29 up from 2000 | 771 | 5% | $2,020 | ||
22Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 2.25Q1 | 3.27 0.52 down from 2000 | 393 | 3% | $3,830 | ||
23Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.25Q1 | 2.34 0.03 down from 2000 | 373 | 12% | $3,590 | ||
24PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.24Q1 | 3.64 0.05 up from 2000 | 686 | 5% | $4,590 | ||
25The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 1.52 0.75 down from 2000 | 43 | 7% | $3,790 | ||
26Systematic BotanyAmerican Society of Plant Taxonomists · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.00 0.56 down from 2000 | 151 | 0% | — | ||
27Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.15Q1 | 1.81 0.61 up from 2000 | 363 | 12% | $4,190 | ||
28Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 2.06 0.01 down from 2000 | 193 | 15% | $5,300 | ||
29European Journal of Soil ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 1.43 0.09 down from 2000 | 235 | 12% | $4,490 | ||
30Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 0.84 0.06 up from 2000 | 128 | 22% | $4,150 | ||
31GeodermaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 1.77 0.62 up from 2000 | 318 | 8% | $3,320 | ||
32American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 1.91Q1 | 2.31 0.22 down from 2000 | 627 | 27% | $2,660 | ||
33Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 1.09 0.15 down from 2000 | 63 | 10% | $3,490 | ||
34Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.85 0.11 down from 2000 | 704 | 8% | $4,950 | ||
35Soil ScienceLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.84Q1 | 1.42 0.34 up from 2000 | 336 | 9% | — | ||
36Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 3.62 0.54 up from 2000 | 852 | 7% | $4,590 | ||
37Food technologyInstitute of Food Technologists · United States | 1.80Q1 | 1.10 0.90 down from 2000 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
38Physiological and Biochemical ZoologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.80Q1 | 2.09 0.86 up from 2000 | 167 | 11% | — | ||
39EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 1.78Q1 | 2.59 0.39 down from 2000 | 1,261 | 10% | $3,214 | ||
40CATENAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 1.69 0.50 up from 2000 | 203 | 7% | $3,680 | ||
41Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 1.75Q1 | 2.54 0.62 up from 2000 | 300 | 37% | $3,123 | ||
42CladisticsWiley · United States | 1.72Q1 | 3.52 1.26 up from 2000 | 177 | 33% | $3,960 | ||
43Physiological and Molecular Plant PathologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 2.68 0.38 up from 2000 | 161 | 8% | $3,550 | ||
44EthologyWiley · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 1.83 0.40 up from 2000 | 287 | 12% | $4,650 | ||
45Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 1.80 0.47 up from 2000 | 320 | 8% | $3,680 | ||
46Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.64Q1 | 2.44 0.11 down from 2000 | 1,013 | 5% | $5,190 | ||
47Journal of Soil and Water ConservationSoil and Water Conservation Society · United States | 1.62Q1 | 1.06 0.02 up from 2000 | 176 | 4% | — | ||
48Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.33 0.43 down from 2000 | 174 | 3% | $5,440 | ||
49Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.02 0.11 up from 2000 | 206 | 16% | $4,000 | ||
50Biology and Fertility of SoilsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.61Q1 | 1.19 0.17 down from 2000 | 443 | 5% | $4,790 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science251
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics101
- Food Science62
- Insect Science38
- Animal Science and Zoology31
- Agronomy and Crop Science26
- Soil Science26
- Aquatic Science16
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences16
- Forestry2
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
211 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 1998–2000, 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: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 569
- Window papers (baseline)
- 231,427 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.412 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 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.