Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Field ranking · 2010
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2010
809 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 809 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.54, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are Ecology Letters, Sociologia Ruralis, and The Plant Cell.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.48Q1 | 12.73 0.13 down from 2009 | 398 | 20% | $5,300 | ||
2Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 5.68Q1 | 3.12 0.60 up from 2009 | 80 | 13% | $3,920 | ||
3The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 5.26Q1 | 9.56 0.42 down from 2009 | 932 | 98% | $4,934 | ||
4Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 4.56Q1 | 3.94 2.90 down from 2009 | 71 | 43% | $3,570 | ||
5The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.43Q1 | 7.83 0.18 down from 2009 | 1,122 | 59% | $5,450 | ||
6Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 6.05 1.22 down from 2009 | 52 | 16% | — | ||
7Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.20Q1 | 2.64 0.07 up from 2009 | 148 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
8Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 3.86 0.08 down from 2009 | 259 | 13% | $5,440 | ||
9New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 6.51 0.36 up from 2009 | 1,155 | 58% | $5,790 | ||
10PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 4.04Q1 | 7.46 0.43 up from 2009 | 1,608 | 100% | $3,851 | ||
11Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.97Q1 | 6.63 1.69 up from 2009 | 140 | 21% | — | ||
12Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 5.99 0.34 up from 2009 | 1,365 | 100% | — | ||
13Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 5.34 0.60 down from 2009 | 487 | 61% | $5,440 | ||
14Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 2.98no change | 206 | 26% | $4,000 | ||
15Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.59Q1 | 5.24 0.31 down from 2009 | 463 | 63% | $3,000 | ||
16GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 3.91no 2009 value | 35 | 44% | $3,180 | — | |
17Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 4.57 0.46 down from 2009 | 457 | 46% | $3,000 | ||
18The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.52Q1 | 4.85 0.19 down from 2009 | 701 | 24% | — | ||
19BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 5.78 0.55 up from 2009 | 353 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
20Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 5.47 0.58 up from 2009 | 1,143 | 88% | $4,341 | ||
21CladisticsWiley · United States | 3.34Q1 | 6.23 0.36 up from 2009 | 161 | 53% | $3,960 | ||
22Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 5.74 0.18 down from 2009 | 228 | 61% | $4,320 | ||
23Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 4.64 0.37 up from 2009 | 222 | 93% | $3,330 | ||
24Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.16Q1 | 3.76 0.15 up from 2009 | 582 | 17% | $4,190 | ||
25EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 3.08Q1 | 5.39 0.04 down from 2009 | 1,008 | 33% | $3,214 | ||
26The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 2.17 1.73 up from 2009 | 93 | 28% | — | ||
27Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 1.84 0.01 down from 2009 | 117 | 23% | $3,820 | ||
28Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 4.02 0.09 down from 2009 | 855 | 99% | $3,617 | ||
29Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 3.97 0.35 up from 2009 | 999 | 14% | $4,950 | ||
30Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 2.82Q1 | 5.54 2.10 up from 2009 | 227 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
31Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 3.67 0.26 down from 2009 | 359 | 13% | $4,210 | ||
32International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 3.86 0.04 up from 2009 | 1,074 | 15% | $4,090 | ||
33Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.80Q1 | 2.96 0.82 up from 2009 | 382 | 8% | $4,570 | ||
34Australian Journal of Grape and Wine ResearchOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 3.28 0.54 up from 2009 | 120 | 73% | $1,460 | ||
35Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.76Q1 | 5.06 0.26 up from 2009 | 467 | 18% | $4,590 | ||
36Journal of Evolutionary BiologyOxford University Press · Switzerland | 2.74Q1 | 4.23 0.14 up from 2009 | 626 | 52% | $3,123 | ||
37Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 3.90 0.20 down from 2009 | 698 | 100% | — | ||
38MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.70Q1 | 3.26 0.16 up from 2009 | 192 | 19% | $3,990 | ||
39The Plant GenomeOACrop Science Society of America · United States | 2.65Q1 | 4.02 2.02 up from 2009 | 51 | 100% | $3,140 | ||
40American Journal of BotanyWiley · United States | 2.63Q1 | 3.75 0.08 up from 2009 | 568 | 25% | $2,660 | ||
41Plant MethodsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 4.77 0.30 up from 2009 | 60 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
42The Botanical ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 3.49 0.83 up from 2009 | 49 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
43Fungal Biology ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 2.33 2.15 down from 2009 | 49 | 11% | $3,000 | ||
44Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 2.57Q1 | 3.98 2.14 up from 2009 | 70 | 12% | $5,000 | ||
45Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 3.61 0.38 up from 2009 | 505 | 45% | $3,906 | ||
46Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.56Q1 | 4.11 0.12 down from 2009 | 767 | 22% | $5,190 | ||
47Environmental and Experimental BotanyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 3.05 0.16 down from 2009 | 400 | 12% | $3,000 | ||
48Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 3.23 0.33 down from 2009 | 107 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
49Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 3.48 2.04 down from 2009 | 76 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
50Applied Soil EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 2.94 0.44 up from 2009 | 339 | 15% | $4,320 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science403
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics120
- Food Science90
- Insect Science46
- Animal Science and Zoology44
- Agronomy and Crop Science30
- Soil Science29
- Aquatic Science24
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences22
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
279 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 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 809
- Window papers (baseline)
- 425,469 +31.7% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.54 +17.4% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.