Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2003
631 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 631 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.45, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 0.97. The top three are Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Sociologia Ruralis.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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)
Up to Life Sciences631 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Annual Review of Ecology and SystematicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 8.93Q1 | 8.61 0.39 up from 2002 | 65 | — | — | ||
2Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 6.44Q1 | 3.00 2.42 up from 2002 | 40 | 35% | $3,820 | ||
3Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 5.56Q1 | 2.00 0.23 up from 2002 | 80 | 11% | $3,920 | ||
4The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.39Q1 | 4.54 0.07 down from 2002 | 437 | 8% | — | ||
5Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.84Q1 | 1.17 0.34 down from 2002 | 142 | 12% | $4,090 | ||
6Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 4.84 1.31 up from 2002 | 302 | 13% | $5,300 | ||
7The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.70Q1 | 7.70 2.02 up from 2002 | 1,194 | 100% | $4,934 | ||
8Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.46Q1 | 4.23 0.29 down from 2002 | 470 | 53% | $3,000 | ||
9Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 4.57 0.17 up from 2002 | 1,075 | 99% | — | ||
10The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 6.56 0.21 up from 2002 | 856 | 55% | $5,450 | ||
11Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 2.87 0.41 down from 2002 | 318 | 33% | $3,906 | ||
12OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 2.82 0.14 down from 2002 | 733 | 19% | $3,640 | ||
13Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 4.26 0.88 up from 2002 | 436 | 56% | $5,440 | ||
14PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.79Q1 | 4.92 0.17 down from 2002 | 1,971 | 93% | $3,851 | ||
15Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 3.28 0.77 up from 2002 | 91 | 4% | — | ||
16Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 2.61Q1 | 3.60 0.69 up from 2002 | 324 | 38% | $3,123 | ||
17Systematic BotanyAmerican Society of Plant Taxonomists · United States | 2.59Q1 | 8.00 5.64 up from 2002 | 56 | — | — | ||
18Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 2.87 0.39 up from 2002 | 312 | 52% | $3,000 | ||
19Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.53Q1 | 2.95 0.14 up from 2002 | 389 | 10% | $3,590 | ||
20The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 1.90 0.74 down from 2002 | 53 | 5% | $3,790 | ||
21Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 0.60 0.01 up from 2002 | 121 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
22Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 2.56 0.34 up from 2002 | 707 | 5% | $4,950 | ||
23Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 2.19 0.36 up from 2002 | 467 | 8% | $4,190 | ||
24Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 2.70 0.03 up from 2002 | 746 | 7% | $2,740 | ||
25Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 2.43Q1 | 1.92 0.33 down from 2002 | 866 | 5% | $2,020 | ||
26Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 4.14 0.70 down from 2002 | 591 | 7% | $4,590 | ||
27New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 2.97 0.05 down from 2002 | 763 | 47% | $5,790 | ||
28Aquaculture NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 1.42 0.39 up from 2002 | 99 | 54% | $2,350 | ||
29Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 2.36 0.63 up from 2002 | 221 | 5% | $4,990 | ||
30Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.26Q1 | 2.44 0.92 down from 2002 | 50 | 4% | — | ||
31Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 1.70 0.31 up from 2002 | 307 | 11% | $4,570 | ||
32American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.20Q1 | 2.61 0.25 up from 2002 | 692 | 25% | $2,660 | ||
33Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 0.52 0.49 down from 2002 | 106 | 2% | $3,990 | ||
34International Dairy JournalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 2.82 1.06 up from 2002 | 307 | 8% | $3,290 | ||
35Journal of Plant Growth RegulationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.04Q1 | 2.69 0.51 up from 2002 | 126 | 8% | $3,890 | ||
36Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 2.03Q1 | 3.74 0.74 up from 2002 | 516 | 5% | $3,830 | ||
37European Journal of Soil ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 1.72 0.42 up from 2002 | 247 | 8% | $4,490 | ||
38GeodermaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 1.67 0.02 down from 2002 | 335 | 10% | $3,320 | ||
39Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 1.55 0.28 up from 2002 | 195 | 20% | $4,000 | ||
40International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.99Q1 | 2.72 0.53 up from 2002 | 806 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
41Journal of Agricultural EducationOAAmerican Association for Agricultural Education · United States | 1.95Q1 | 0.80 0.27 up from 2002 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 2.92 0.37 up from 2002 | 1,096 | 62% | $4,341 | ||
43Annals of the Missouri Botanical GardenMissouri Botanical Garden · United States | 1.94Q1 | 2.11 0.02 up from 2002 | 90 | 71% | — | ||
44Applied Soil EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 1.72 0.39 up from 2002 | 226 | 10% | $4,320 | ||
45Plant and SoilSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 1.86 0.35 up from 2002 | 822 | 4% | $4,790 | ||
46MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.90Q1 | 2.21 0.34 up from 2002 | 159 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
47PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.89Q1 | 3.40 0.14 up from 2002 | 730 | 6% | $4,590 | ||
48Biology and Fertility of SoilsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.85Q1 | 1.60 0.14 up from 2002 | 467 | 10% | $4,790 | ||
49Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 1.85Q1 | 1.54 1.35 down from 2002 | 33 | 6% | $3,570 | ||
50Journal of Food ProtectionOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.85Q1 | 2.73 0.65 up from 2002 | 923 | 100% | $2,300 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science281
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics109
- Food Science65
- Insect Science42
- Animal Science and Zoology41
- Agronomy and Crop Science28
- Soil Science27
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Aquatic Science17
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
209 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 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 631
- Window papers (baseline)
- 264,449 +32.1% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.454 +1.4% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.