Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Field ranking · 2009
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2009
755 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 755 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.53, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.21. The top three are Ecology Letters, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, and The Plant Cell.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.34Q1 | 12.86 2.21 up from 2008 | 388 | 28% | $5,300 | ||
2Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 5.50Q1 | 6.84 1.51 up from 2008 | 51 | 12% | $3,570 | ||
3The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 5.33Q1 | 9.97 0.47 down from 2008 | 876 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
4Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 7.27 1.50 down from 2008 | 48 | 4% | — | ||
5Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 4.75Q1 | 2.53 0.36 up from 2008 | 75 | 43% | $3,920 | ||
6Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 2.57 0.84 up from 2008 | 157 | 14% | $4,090 | ||
7The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 8.01no change | 1,133 | 61% | $5,450 | ||
8Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 4.09Q1 | 5.56 0.12 down from 2008 | 446 | 70% | $3,000 | ||
9New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 6.15 0.64 up from 2008 | 1,082 | 56% | $5,790 | ||
10PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 3.97Q1 | 7.03 0.25 down from 2008 | 1,543 | 100% | $3,851 | ||
11Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 5.65 0.42 up from 2008 | 1,204 | 100% | — | ||
12Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 5.95 0.11 up from 2008 | 457 | 50% | $5,440 | ||
13Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.76Q1 | 3.94 0.42 up from 2008 | 292 | 7% | $5,440 | ||
14CladisticsWiley · United States | 3.53Q1 | 5.87 2.17 up from 2008 | 140 | 45% | $3,960 | ||
15Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 1.85 0.80 up from 2008 | 99 | 16% | $3,820 | ||
16Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.47Q1 | 4.93 0.82 down from 2008 | 147 | 26% | — | ||
17Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 5.92 0.07 up from 2008 | 201 | 65% | $4,320 | ||
18The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.32Q1 | 5.04 0.36 up from 2008 | 695 | 19% | — | ||
19Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 5.03 0.88 up from 2008 | 449 | 41% | $3,000 | ||
20BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 5.22 0.22 down from 2008 | 234 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
21Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.16Q1 | 3.61 0.03 up from 2008 | 639 | 6% | $4,190 | ||
22Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 4.89 0.04 up from 2008 | 1,156 | 87% | $4,341 | ||
23Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 4.27 0.54 up from 2008 | 197 | 93% | $3,330 | ||
24Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 3.94 0.78 up from 2008 | 296 | 10% | $4,210 | ||
25Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 2.98 0.73 up from 2008 | 248 | 20% | $4,000 | ||
26Food Additives & Contaminants Part ATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 2.94 1.20 up from 2008 | 176 | 46% | — | ||
27Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 1.58 0.12 up from 2008 | 147 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
28Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 5.52 0.96 up from 2008 | 66 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
29Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 2.72Q1 | 4.09 0.29 up from 2008 | 606 | 45% | $3,123 | ||
30MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.69Q1 | 3.10 0.29 down from 2008 | 182 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
31American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.65Q1 | 3.67 0.33 up from 2008 | 550 | 25% | $2,660 | ||
32EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 2.65Q1 | 5.44 1.50 up from 2008 | 1,195 | 23% | $3,214 | ||
33Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 4.11 0.92 up from 2008 | 806 | 100% | $3,617 | ||
34Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 3.62 0.22 up from 2008 | 1,021 | 11% | $4,950 | ||
35OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 3.30 0.33 up from 2008 | 897 | 14% | $3,640 | ||
36Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 4.09 0.36 up from 2008 | 582 | 100% | — | ||
37Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.60Q1 | 4.23 0.02 down from 2008 | 769 | 20% | $5,190 | ||
38Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 2.59Q1 | 1.84 2.83 down from 2008 | 56 | 3% | $5,000 | ||
39The Quarterly Review of BiologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.66 0.70 down from 2008 | 87 | 2% | — | ||
40International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.58Q1 | 3.82 0.55 up from 2008 | 1,076 | 9% | $4,090 | ||
41European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 2.69 0.02 up from 2008 | 253 | 17% | $3,200 | ||
42Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 4.81 0.39 up from 2008 | 571 | 15% | $4,590 | ||
43The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.52Q1 | 2.66 0.87 down from 2008 | 44 | 33% | $3,790 | ||
44Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 3.23 0.19 down from 2008 | 483 | 47% | $3,906 | ||
45Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 3.56 1.27 up from 2008 | 118 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
46International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 1.57 0.57 up from 2008 | 61 | 18% | — | ||
47Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.40Q1 | 3.21 0.88 up from 2008 | 335 | 8% | $3,000 | ||
48Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.62 0.10 down from 2008 | 716 | 6% | $2,020 | ||
49Molecular Phylogenetics and EvolutionElsevier BV · United States | 2.34Q1 | 4.10 0.14 up from 2008 | 1,038 | 15% | $3,830 | ||
50Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.34Q1 | 2.91 0.60 up from 2008 | 376 | 10% | $3,680 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science365
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics113
- Food Science82
- Animal Science and Zoology46
- Insect Science45
- Agronomy and Crop Science30
- Soil Science29
- Aquatic Science24
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences20
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
282 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 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 755
- Window papers (baseline)
- 381,325 +28.2% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.53 +15.7% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.