Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Field ranking · 2008
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2008
707 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 707 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2007 to 0.56, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Ecology Letters, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, and The Plant Cell.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 7.91Q1 | 10.65 0.41 down from 2007 | 409 | 26% | $5,300 | ||
2Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.85Q1 | 8.76 2.38 up from 2007 | 56 | 7% | — | ||
3The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 5.63Q1 | 10.44 0.90 down from 2007 | 863 | 100% | $4,934 | ||
4The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 8.01 0.72 down from 2007 | 1,040 | 57% | $5,450 | ||
5Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 4.21Q1 | 5.67 0.03 down from 2007 | 437 | 59% | $3,000 | ||
6Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 1.73 0.09 down from 2007 | 156 | 12% | $4,090 | ||
7Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 4.06Q1 | 5.33 0.53 up from 2007 | 47 | 11% | $3,570 | ||
8Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.88Q1 | 5.76 0.15 down from 2007 | 115 | 13% | — | ||
9PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 3.88Q1 | 7.28 0.32 down from 2007 | 1,549 | 99% | $3,851 | ||
10Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.71Q1 | 2.16 0.69 up from 2007 | 65 | 31% | $3,920 | ||
11New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 3.69Q1 | 5.51 0.14 down from 2007 | 1,028 | 54% | $5,790 | ||
12Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 5.84 0.13 up from 2007 | 474 | 63% | $5,440 | ||
13Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 5.24 0.35 down from 2007 | 1,241 | 100% | — | ||
14The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.39Q1 | 4.68 0.89 down from 2007 | 679 | 17% | — | ||
15Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 3.52 0.05 down from 2007 | 267 | 13% | $5,440 | ||
16Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 5.86 1.05 up from 2007 | 195 | 61% | $4,320 | ||
17Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 4.15 0.10 down from 2007 | 441 | 46% | $3,000 | ||
18Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 4.85 0.01 up from 2007 | 1,091 | 89% | $4,341 | ||
19Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 3.73 0.54 down from 2007 | 190 | 91% | $3,330 | ||
20Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.79Q1 | 3.59 0.92 up from 2007 | 680 | 12% | $4,190 | ||
21Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 3.42 0.43 down from 2007 | 417 | 53% | $3,906 | ||
22Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 4.57 0.30 down from 2007 | 62 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
23Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 2.25 0.54 up from 2007 | 281 | 18% | $4,000 | ||
24Australian Journal of Grape and Wine ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 2.65 0.09 up from 2007 | 76 | 79% | $1,460 | ||
25The Quarterly Review of BiologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.57Q1 | 3.36 1.20 up from 2007 | 72 | 1% | — | ||
26Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 2.01 0.76 up from 2007 | 127 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
27Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 3.73 0.05 down from 2007 | 540 | 100% | — | ||
28American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.49Q1 | 3.34 0.01 up from 2007 | 601 | 30% | $2,660 | ||
29CladisticsWiley · United States | 2.48Q1 | 3.70 1.41 down from 2007 | 137 | 53% | $3,960 | ||
30Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.47Q1 | 4.41 0.44 down from 2007 | 583 | 15% | $4,590 | ||
31Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 2.47Q1 | 3.80 0.53 down from 2007 | 653 | 46% | $3,123 | ||
32Aquaculture NutritionOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 2.21 0.08 down from 2007 | 181 | 60% | $2,350 | ||
33Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 3.40 0.70 up from 2007 | 982 | 7% | $4,950 | ||
34Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.44Q1 | 4.25 0.13 down from 2007 | 888 | 15% | $5,190 | ||
35Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 3.19 0.58 down from 2007 | 805 | 99% | $3,617 | ||
36OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 2.97 0.93 down from 2007 | 880 | 22% | $3,640 | ||
37Food Additives & ContaminantsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 2.54 0.15 up from 2007 | 482 | 0% | — | ||
38Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 2.37Q1 | 2.73 0.15 up from 2007 | 748 | 9% | $2,020 | ||
39MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.34Q1 | 3.39 1.27 up from 2007 | 181 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
40Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 1.46 0.27 up from 2007 | 133 | 16% | $4,150 | ||
41International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.28Q1 | 3.27 0.15 up from 2007 | 997 | 9% | $4,090 | ||
42Basic and Applied EcologyOAElsevier BV · Germany | 2.24Q1 | 1.99 0.35 down from 2007 | 231 | 20% | $1,800 | ||
43EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 2.23Q1 | 3.93 0.59 up from 2007 | 1,425 | 24% | $3,214 | ||
44Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.23Q1 | 2.97 0.15 down from 2007 | 588 | 19% | $3,590 | ||
45European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 2.67 0.72 up from 2007 | 231 | 6% | $3,200 | ||
46PlantaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.15Q1 | 3.91 0.17 up from 2007 | 788 | 16% | $4,590 | ||
47BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 5.44 2.97 up from 2007 | 163 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
48Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 3.83 0.16 down from 2007 | 667 | 40% | $3,085 | ||
49Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 2.08 0.42 up from 2007 | 462 | 12% | $4,570 | ||
50Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.15 0.95 up from 2007 | 293 | 9% | $4,210 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science337
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics103
- Food Science79
- Animal Science and Zoology44
- Insect Science44
- Soil Science29
- Agronomy and Crop Science28
- Aquatic Science22
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
280 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 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 707
- Window papers (baseline)
- 349,012 +25.8% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.556 +34.4% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.