Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Subfield ranking · 2001
Soil Science journal rankings 2001
26 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Soil Science has 26 ranked journals in 2001. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2000 to 1.23, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.78. The top three are Soil Science Society of America Journal, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, and European Journal of Soil Science.
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 of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
26 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 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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1Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 2.26Q1 | 1.67 0.29 up from 2000 | 771 | 5% | $2,020 | ||
2Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.15Q1 | 1.81 0.61 up from 2000 | 363 | 12% | $4,190 | ||
3European Journal of Soil ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 1.43 0.09 down from 2000 | 235 | 12% | $4,490 | ||
4GeodermaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 1.77 0.62 up from 2000 | 318 | 8% | $3,320 | ||
5Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.85 0.11 down from 2000 | 704 | 8% | $4,950 | ||
6Soil ScienceLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.84Q1 | 1.42 0.34 up from 2000 | 336 | 9% | — | ||
7CATENAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 1.69 0.50 up from 2000 | 203 | 7% | $3,680 | ||
8Journal of Soil and Water ConservationSoil and Water Conservation Society · United States | 1.62Q2 | 1.06 0.02 up from 2000 | 176 | 4% | — | ||
9Biology and Fertility of SoilsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.61Q2 | 1.19 0.17 down from 2000 | 443 | 5% | $4,790 | ||
10Nutrient Cycling in AgroecosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.44Q2 | 0.90 0.06 down from 2000 | 266 | 9% | $3,890 | ||
11Soil Use and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 1.05 0.54 down from 2000 | 142 | 4% | $4,120 | ||
12Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q2 | 1.15 0.31 up from 2000 | 360 | 11% | $4,570 | ||
13Soil ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.25Q2 | 1.10 0.25 up from 2000 | 223 | 7% | — | ||
14Applied Soil EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q3 | 1.38 0.25 up from 2000 | 269 | 10% | $4,320 | ||
15Irrigation ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.85Q3 | 0.58 0.02 up from 2000 | 52 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
16Canadian Journal of Soil ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.82Q3 | 0.84 0.10 up from 2000 | 227 | 42% | — | ||
17Compost Science & UtilizationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.79Q3 | 0.51 0.04 down from 2000 | 117 | 0% | — | ||
18Land Degradation and DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 0.58 0.11 up from 2000 | 174 | 9% | $5,230 | ||
19PedobiologiaElsevier BV · Germany | 0.73Q3 | 0.53 0.18 up from 2000 | 235 | 2% | $3,260 | ||
20Agricultural Water ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.68Q3 | 0.61 0.21 up from 2000 | 228 | 11% | $3,070 | ||
21Irrigation and Drainage SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.59Q4 | 0.49 0.24 up from 2000 | 55 | 12% | — | ||
22European Journal of Soil BiologyElsevier BV · France | 0.56Q4 | 0.44 0.12 up from 2000 | 71 | 6% | $3,800 | ||
23Revista Brasileira de Ciência do SoloOASociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo · Brazil | 0.43Q4 | 0.61 0.12 up from 2000 | 302 | 100% | $100 | ||
24PedosphereElsevier BV · China | 0.20Q4 | 0.08 0.08 up from 2000 | 44 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
25Archives of Agronomy and Soil ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.07Q4 | 0.18 0.02 up from 2000 | 120 | 0% | — | ||
26Irrigation and DrainageWiley · United Kingdom | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 67 | 0% | $3,450 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Soil Science highlighted.
- 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.
5 additional Soil Science 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
- 26
- Window papers (baseline)
- 9,099 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 1.23 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 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.