Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Soil Science journal rankings 2002
27 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Soil Science has 27 ranked journals in 2002. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.25 against 1.00, up 0.03 on 2001. A journal needs OJR 1.84 to reach Q1. The top three are Soil Science Society of America Journal, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
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 of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
27 ranked journals
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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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1Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 2.77Q1 | 2.25 0.58 up from 2001 | 763 | 4% | $2,020 | ||
2Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 1.83 0.02 up from 2001 | 384 | 10% | $4,190 | ||
3Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 2.22 0.37 up from 2001 | 681 | 6% | $4,950 | ||
4Soil ScienceLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.07Q1 | 1.33 0.08 down from 2001 | 314 | 2% | — | ||
5European Journal of Soil ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 1.31 0.12 down from 2001 | 252 | 10% | $4,490 | ||
6GeodermaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 1.69 0.08 down from 2001 | 315 | 6% | $3,320 | ||
7CATENAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 1.60 0.10 down from 2001 | 235 | 3% | $3,680 | ||
8Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q2 | 1.39 0.24 up from 2001 | 297 | 8% | $4,570 | ||
9Biology and Fertility of SoilsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.59Q2 | 1.46 0.26 up from 2001 | 466 | 7% | $4,790 | ||
10Applied Soil EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q2 | 1.34 0.05 down from 2001 | 219 | 3% | $4,320 | ||
11Journal of Soil and Water ConservationSoil and Water Conservation Society · United States | 1.44Q2 | 1.11 0.05 up from 2001 | 173 | 7% | — | ||
12Soil ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.31Q2 | 1.19 0.09 up from 2001 | 237 | 12% | — | ||
13Soil Use and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 1.12 0.07 up from 2001 | 151 | 7% | $4,120 | ||
14Agricultural Water ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q2 | 1.03 0.42 up from 2001 | 275 | 11% | $3,070 | ||
15Land Degradation and DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q3 | 0.80 0.21 up from 2001 | 164 | 13% | $5,230 | ||
16Canadian Journal of Soil ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.18Q3 | 0.86 0.02 up from 2001 | 211 | 34% | — | ||
17Nutrient Cycling in AgroecosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.01Q3 | 1.00 0.10 up from 2001 | 243 | 10% | $3,890 | ||
18Compost Science & UtilizationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.99Q3 | 0.58 0.06 up from 2001 | 117 | 9% | — | ||
19Irrigation ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.76Q3 | 0.51 0.07 down from 2001 | 65 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
20PedobiologiaElsevier BV · Germany | 0.75Q3 | 0.90 0.37 up from 2001 | 213 | 2% | $3,260 | ||
21Irrigation and Drainage SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 0.29 0.19 down from 2001 | 62 | 4% | — | ||
22Revista Brasileira de Ciência do SoloOASociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo · Brazil | 0.53Q4 | 0.69 0.08 up from 2001 | 320 | 99% | $100 | ||
23European Journal of Soil BiologyElsevier BV · France | 0.49Q4 | 0.46 0.02 up from 2001 | 93 | 8% | $3,800 | ||
24Journal of Soils and SedimentsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.45Q4 | 0.42no 2001 value | 48 | 2% | $3,890 | — | |
25Irrigation and DrainageWiley · United Kingdom | 0.17Q4 | 0.14 0.14 up from 2001 | 102 | 4% | $3,450 | ||
26PedosphereElsevier BV · China | 0.11Q4 | 0.11 0.03 up from 2001 | 42 | — | $3,000 | ||
27Archives of Agronomy and Soil ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.08Q4 | 0.18 0.01 up from 2001 | 145 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Soil Science highlighted.
- 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.
4 additional Soil Science 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
- 27
- Window papers (baseline)
- 10,240 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 1.255 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 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.