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Journal rankings · indicator year 2010

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Subfield ranking · 2010

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2010

22 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 22 ranked journals in 2010. The median OJR fell 0.54 on 2009 to 0.40, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.47. The top three are Sociologia Ruralis, Journal of Rural Studies, and Agricultural Systems.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

22
3% of Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Median OJR

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.

0.40-0.54 vs 2009
This subfieldAll 0.93World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

36%
All fields: 20%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,955
Median positive listed APC: $3,955 among 8 journals. 14 have no known price. All fields: $3,490.

Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)

22 ranked journals

Filters

Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access
APC (list price)
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ranking, 2010

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.

OJR

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
1Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands
5.68Q13.12 0.60 up from 20098013%$3,920
2Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.20Q12.64 0.07 up from 200914816%$4,090
3Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.65Q12.98no change20626%$4,000
4The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
3.08Q12.17 1.73 up from 20099328%—
5Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom
2.96Q11.84 0.01 down from 200911723%$3,820
6Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom
2.47Q11.06 0.52 down from 200915431%$4,150
7Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands
2.14Q21.30 0.22 down from 200917325%$3,990
8International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.71Q21.95 0.38 up from 20096613%—
9The Journal of Agricultural Education and ExtensionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.57Q20.75 0.01 up from 20097422%—
10Outlook on AgricultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.04Q20.82 0.14 up from 200911820%$3,650
11EuroChoicesWiley · United Kingdom
0.42Q20.43 0.01 down from 20091114%$3,470
12Journal of Agricultural EducationOAAmerican Association for Agricultural Education · United States
0.38Q30.45 0.05 up from 2009138100%—
0.34Q30.39 0.29 down from 2009530%—
14Journal of Agricultural & Food InformationTaylor & Francis · United States
0.25Q30.28 0.21 up from 2009942%—
15Journal of developments in sustainable agricultureOAUniversity of Tsukuba · Japan
0.24Q30.20 0.02 up from 200943100%—
16Revista Fitotecnia MexicanaOAMexican Society of Phytogenetics · Mexico
0.23Q30.23 0.06 up from 2009182100%—
17German Journal of Agricultural EconomicsOADeutscher Fachverlag · Germany
0.22Q30.14 0.01 up from 200990100%—
0.21Q40.24 0.02 down from 20099311%—
19Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural ScienceAgricultural Academy of Bulgaria · Bulgaria
0.17Q40.24 0.24 up from 2009820%—
20Journal of ExtensionOAClemson University · United States
0.16Q40.16 0.03 up from 200950399%—
21Agricultural Economics Research ReviewAgricultural Economics Research Association · India
0.10Q40.10 0.10 up from 200911124%—
22Journal of Applied CommunicationsOANew Prairie Press · United States
0.09Q40.13 0.13 up from 200937100%—

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.

9 additional General 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
22
Window papers (baseline)
17,232 +43.3% from indicator year 2007
Median OJR
0.40 -53.4% from indicator year 2007
Rising journals (2025)
3

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals1516172019192020202022232324293230333232333335333333
Window papers (baseline)7,6328,9989,77010,45710,03510,31211,03512,02413,21314,83517,23219,80721,93724,35027,02030,85033,99237,86942,11748,03453,65760,12064,00166,22869,13776,919
Median OJR0.4600.4560.550.730.670.340.610.860.710.93940.400.830.680.7960.8520.8531.070.7980.93910.880.960.910.720.821.040.89

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.