Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Field ranking · 2002
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2002
595 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 595 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.41, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 0.92. The top three are Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, The American Naturalist, and Sociologia Ruralis.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1Annual Review of Ecology and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 8.09Q1 | 8.23 0.29 up from 2001 | 62 | 4% | — | ||
2The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.43Q1 | 4.61 0.33 up from 2001 | 428 | 4% | — | ||
3Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.75Q1 | 1.77 0.41 up from 2001 | 89 | 16% | $3,920 | ||
4The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 6.35 0.47 up from 2001 | 866 | 58% | $5,450 | ||
5Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.53Q1 | 4.51 0.11 up from 2001 | 458 | 54% | $3,000 | ||
6Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 4.40 0.67 up from 2001 | 1,088 | 99% | — | ||
7Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 3.54 1.48 up from 2001 | 244 | 15% | $5,300 | ||
8OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 2.97 0.12 up from 2001 | 753 | 16% | $3,640 | ||
9Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 3.27 0.62 up from 2001 | 301 | 26% | $3,906 | ||
10The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.18Q1 | 5.68 0.29 down from 2001 | 1,300 | 98% | $4,934 | ||
11PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.94Q1 | 5.10 0.19 up from 2001 | 1,856 | 80% | $3,851 | ||
12Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 3.38 0.40 down from 2001 | 422 | 59% | $5,440 | ||
13Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 2.77Q1 | 2.25 0.58 up from 2001 | 763 | 4% | $2,020 | ||
14The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 0.66 0.48 down from 2001 | 82 | 7% | — | ||
15Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 2.47 0.48 up from 2001 | 327 | 60% | $3,000 | ||
16The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 2.64 1.13 up from 2001 | 46 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
17New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.02 0.33 up from 2001 | 699 | 43% | $5,790 | ||
18Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.09 0.94 down from 2001 | 91 | 77% | — | ||
19Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.56Q1 | 2.81 0.47 up from 2001 | 375 | 7% | $3,590 | ||
20Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 2.51 0.53 down from 2001 | 131 | 0% | — | ||
21Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 2.66 0.03 down from 2001 | 808 | 5% | $2,740 | ||
22Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 1.51 0.26 up from 2001 | 142 | 7% | $4,090 | ||
23Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 1.83 0.02 up from 2001 | 384 | 10% | $4,190 | ||
24Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.23Q1 | 4.84 1.22 up from 2001 | 707 | 7% | $4,590 | ||
25Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 2.22 0.37 up from 2001 | 681 | 6% | $4,950 | ||
26Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 2.11Q1 | 2.90 0.36 up from 2001 | 366 | 41% | $3,123 | ||
27Agroforestry SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 0.81 0.09 down from 2001 | 215 | 2% | $3,090 | ||
28Soil ScienceLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.07Q1 | 1.33 0.08 down from 2001 | 314 | 2% | — | ||
29MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.05Q1 | 1.86 0.57 up from 2001 | 169 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
30European Journal of Soil ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 1.31 0.12 down from 2001 | 252 | 10% | $4,490 | ||
31American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.02Q1 | 2.36 0.05 up from 2001 | 672 | 27% | $2,660 | ||
32PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.01Q1 | 3.26 0.38 down from 2001 | 699 | 3% | $4,590 | ||
33Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 0.91 0.41 down from 2001 | 188 | 5% | $5,440 | ||
34Evolutionary ecology researchEvolutionary Ecology Ltd. · United States | 1.98Q1 | 2.24 0.81 up from 2001 | 113 | 0% | — | ||
35Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 1.92Q1 | 2.99 0.28 down from 2001 | 457 | 4% | $3,830 | ||
36GeodermaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 1.69 0.08 down from 2001 | 315 | 6% | $3,320 | ||
37Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 1.74 0.06 down from 2001 | 276 | 7% | $3,680 | ||
38EthologyWiley · Germany | 1.88Q1 | 1.67 0.17 down from 2001 | 311 | 8% | $4,650 | ||
39Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 1.73 0.65 up from 2001 | 201 | 4% | $4,990 | ||
40CATENAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 1.60 0.10 down from 2001 | 235 | 3% | $3,680 | ||
41Physiological and Molecular Plant PathologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.00 0.68 down from 2001 | 169 | 3% | $3,550 | ||
42EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 1.77Q1 | 2.66 0.06 up from 2001 | 1,331 | 12% | $3,214 | ||
43Systematic BotanyAmerican Society of Plant Taxonomists · United States | 1.76Q1 | 2.36 0.36 up from 2001 | 115 | — | — | ||
44Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 1.01 0.27 up from 2001 | 122 | 2% | $3,990 | ||
45International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 2.19 0.55 up from 2001 | 709 | 6% | $4,090 | ||
46Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.65Q1 | 2.62 0.18 up from 2001 | 1,010 | 5% | $5,190 | ||
47Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 1.39 0.24 up from 2001 | 297 | 8% | $4,570 | ||
48Journal of Food ProtectionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.64Q1 | 2.08 0.18 up from 2001 | 844 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
49CladisticsWiley · United States | 1.63Q1 | 2.10 1.42 down from 2001 | 199 | 27% | $3,960 | ||
50Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 1.26 0.24 up from 2001 | 182 | 8% | $4,000 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science265
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics105
- Food Science63
- Insect Science40
- Animal Science and Zoology36
- Soil Science27
- Agronomy and Crop Science25
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences17
- Aquatic Science15
- Forestry2
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% 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 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 595
- Window papers (baseline)
- 246,134 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.409 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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.