Journal rankings · indicator year 2007
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Field ranking · 2007
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2007
696 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 696 ranked journals in 2007. The median journal has an OJR of 0.46, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2006; Q1 starts at OJR 1.13. The top three are Ecology Letters, The Plant Cell, and The Plant Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. 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 2004–2006, the window the 2007 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 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 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 2007. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 7.92Q1 | 11.06 1.43 up from 2006 | 421 | 19% | $5,300 | ||
2The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 6.34Q1 | 11.35 0.06 down from 2006 | 836 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
3The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 8.74 0.33 up from 2006 | 965 | 57% | $5,450 | ||
4Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 4.65Q1 | 1.48 1.76 down from 2006 | 66 | 43% | $3,920 | ||
5Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.41Q1 | 6.39 1.29 up from 2006 | 72 | 15% | — | ||
6Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.23Q1 | 1.82 0.05 down from 2006 | 155 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
7PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 3.98Q1 | 7.60 0.16 up from 2006 | 1,672 | 99% | $3,851 | ||
8Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.78Q1 | 5.71 1.02 up from 2006 | 420 | 47% | $3,000 | ||
9The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.77Q1 | 5.57 0.82 up from 2006 | 683 | 8% | — | ||
10Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.77Q1 | 5.91 0.64 up from 2006 | 118 | 0% | — | ||
11ZoomorphologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.59Q1 | 5.63 3.91 up from 2006 | 51 | 19% | $3,890 | ||
12New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 5.64 0.73 up from 2006 | 960 | 55% | $5,790 | ||
13The Quarterly Review of BiologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.56Q1 | 2.16 0.53 down from 2006 | 75 | 1% | — | ||
14Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 5.59 0.93 up from 2006 | 1,375 | 99% | — | ||
15Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 5.70 1.31 up from 2006 | 472 | 58% | $5,440 | ||
16Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 3.24Q1 | 4.81 1.81 up from 2006 | 31 | 9% | $3,570 | ||
17OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 3.90 0.36 down from 2006 | 816 | 15% | $3,640 | ||
18Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 4.25 0.26 up from 2006 | 407 | 49% | $3,000 | ||
19Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 4.83 0.31 up from 2006 | 1,035 | 77% | $4,341 | ||
20Biological Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 3.17 0.56 down from 2006 | 428 | 27% | $3,541 | ||
21Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.93Q1 | 3.85 0.39 up from 2006 | 480 | 47% | $3,906 | ||
22CladisticsWiley · United States | 2.93Q1 | 5.11 0.65 up from 2006 | 118 | 45% | $3,960 | ||
23Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 4.87 0.78 up from 2006 | 44 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
24Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 4.27 0.45 up from 2006 | 169 | 60% | $3,330 | ||
25Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 2.80Q1 | 4.05 1.61 up from 2006 | 30 | 8% | $5,000 | ||
26Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 2.73Q1 | 4.32 1.04 up from 2006 | 635 | 53% | $3,123 | ||
27Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.69Q1 | 4.85 0.11 up from 2006 | 633 | 17% | $4,590 | ||
28Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.69Q1 | 4.38 0.87 up from 2006 | 977 | 9% | $5,190 | ||
29American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.59Q1 | 3.33 0.53 down from 2006 | 608 | 27% | $2,660 | ||
30Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 3.56 1.02 up from 2006 | 251 | 9% | $5,440 | ||
31Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 3.77 0.78 up from 2006 | 707 | 100% | $3,617 | ||
32Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 3.78 1.25 up from 2006 | 336 | 100% | — | ||
33Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 4.80 1.15 up from 2006 | 172 | 68% | $4,320 | ||
34Aquaculture NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 2.29 0.21 up from 2006 | 151 | 52% | $2,350 | ||
35Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.34Q1 | 2.67 0.23 up from 2006 | 746 | 18% | $4,190 | ||
36Animal BehaviourElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 3.16 0.13 up from 2006 | 991 | 12% | $2,740 | ||
37Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 1.19 0.24 up from 2006 | 123 | 20% | $4,150 | ||
38Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 2.53 0.72 down from 2006 | 66 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
39Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.24Q1 | 3.13 0.30 up from 2006 | 556 | 16% | $3,590 | ||
40Australian Journal of Grape and Wine ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 2.55 0.44 up from 2006 | 64 | 75% | $1,460 | ||
41International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 3.13 0.11 up from 2006 | 921 | 7% | $4,090 | ||
42Ecological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 2.72 0.23 up from 2006 | 259 | 11% | $4,410 | ||
43Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 2.16Q1 | 3.95 0.11 down from 2006 | 873 | 10% | $3,830 | ||
44Zoologischer AnzeigerElsevier BV · Germany | 2.13Q1 | 3.57 2.80 up from 2006 | 71 | 0% | $4,326 | ||
45Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.99 0.24 up from 2006 | 709 | 22% | $3,085 | ||
46Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 2.55 0.47 up from 2006 | 187 | 11% | $4,470 | ||
47Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 2.70 0.10 up from 2006 | 955 | 9% | $4,950 | ||
48Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 2.08Q1 | 2.57 0.26 up from 2006 | 840 | 5% | $2,020 | ||
49Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.07Q1 | 23.86 0.70 down from 2006 | 81 | 5% | — | ||
50Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 1.24 0.16 down from 2006 | 58 | 16% | $3,820 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science328
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics106
- Food Science78
- Insect Science44
- Animal Science and Zoology42
- Agronomy and Crop Science27
- Soil Science27
- Aquatic Science23
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
254 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 2004–2006, 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: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 696
- Window papers (baseline)
- 323,008 +23.7% from indicator year 2004
- Median OJR
- 0.463 +2.7% from indicator year 2004
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 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.