Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Field ranking · 2011
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2011
857 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 857 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR rose 0.11 on 2010 to 0.65, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.26. The top three are Ecology Letters, The Journal of Peasant Studies, and Sociologia Ruralis.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 9.16Q1 | 11.76 0.97 down from 2010 | 419 | 30% | $5,300 | ||
2The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 8.25Q1 | 5.26 3.10 up from 2010 | 113 | 23% | — | ||
3Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 5.73Q1 | 2.27 0.85 down from 2010 | 83 | 31% | $3,920 | ||
4The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 5.10Q1 | 9.83 0.27 up from 2010 | 928 | 98% | $4,934 | ||
5Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.83Q1 | 6.24 0.19 up from 2010 | 59 | 18% | — | ||
6The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 7.65 0.18 down from 2010 | 1,060 | 61% | $5,450 | ||
7New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 4.37Q1 | 6.60 0.09 up from 2010 | 1,238 | 57% | $5,790 | ||
8PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 4.27Q1 | 8.04 0.58 up from 2010 | 1,631 | 82% | $3,851 | ||
9Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 2.25 0.39 down from 2010 | 146 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
10Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 3.69 0.71 up from 2010 | 202 | 16% | $4,000 | ||
11Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.06Q1 | 6.35 0.28 down from 2010 | 176 | 10% | — | ||
12Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 3.95Q1 | 4.32 0.38 up from 2010 | 71 | 26% | $3,570 | ||
13Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.90Q1 | 5.35 0.11 up from 2010 | 490 | 61% | $3,000 | ||
14Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 6.92 1.18 up from 2010 | 253 | 68% | $4,320 | ||
15Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 5.74 0.25 down from 2010 | 1,561 | 100% | — | ||
16Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 4.98 1.12 up from 2010 | 231 | 20% | $5,440 | ||
17Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 6.44 1.10 up from 2010 | 486 | 58% | $5,440 | ||
18Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 1.90 0.06 up from 2010 | 98 | 23% | $3,820 | ||
19Reviews in AquacultureWiley · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 3.81 1.95 down from 2010 | 37 | 25% | $4,480 | ||
20Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 6.11 0.64 up from 2010 | 1,203 | 87% | $4,341 | ||
21The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.44Q1 | 5.00 0.15 up from 2010 | 631 | 29% | — | ||
22Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 4.99 0.42 up from 2010 | 454 | 52% | $3,000 | ||
23Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 4.61 0.03 down from 2010 | 223 | 91% | $3,330 | ||
24Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 4.38 0.41 up from 2010 | 985 | 12% | $4,950 | ||
25GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 5.09 1.18 up from 2010 | 87 | 75% | $3,180 | ||
26Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.23Q1 | 4.09 0.32 up from 2010 | 642 | 18% | $4,190 | ||
27Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 3.23Q1 | 7.09 1.55 up from 2010 | 287 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
28Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.19Q1 | 4.15 1.21 up from 2010 | 180 | 35% | $2,990 | ||
29CladisticsWiley · United States | 3.17Q1 | 4.16 2.07 down from 2010 | 148 | 58% | $3,960 | ||
30BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 5.02 0.76 down from 2010 | 578 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
31Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 1.80 0.74 up from 2010 | 159 | 25% | $4,150 | ||
32Irrigation and Drainage SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.09Q1 | 2.31 0.36 up from 2010 | 50 | 12% | — | ||
33Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 3.06Q1 | 6.05 2.07 up from 2010 | 94 | 6% | $5,000 | ||
34EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 3.01Q1 | 4.94 0.45 down from 2010 | 937 | 23% | $3,214 | ||
35Marine DrugsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.97Q1 | 5.30 1.17 up from 2010 | 270 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
36Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.91Q1 | 2.79 0.16 down from 2010 | 411 | 16% | $4,570 | ||
37International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.91Q1 | 4.17 0.31 up from 2010 | 1,089 | 11% | $4,090 | ||
38Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.90Q1 | 34.02 0.26 down from 2010 | 81 | 8% | — | ||
39Plant Molecular BiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 4.50 0.56 down from 2010 | 439 | 23% | $4,590 | ||
40European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 3.19 0.10 up from 2010 | 201 | 19% | $3,200 | ||
41International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 3.42 1.47 up from 2010 | 67 | 58% | — | ||
42Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 4.04 0.02 up from 2010 | 787 | 100% | $3,617 | ||
43Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 3.65 0.02 down from 2010 | 472 | 16% | $4,210 | ||
44Behavioral EcologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 3.50 0.10 down from 2010 | 553 | 42% | $3,906 | ||
45Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 4.09 0.79 up from 2010 | 246 | 16% | $4,470 | ||
46Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 3.26 0.58 up from 2010 | 509 | 10% | $3,680 | ||
47Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 3.76 0.53 up from 2010 | 105 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
48Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 3.93 0.03 up from 2010 | 735 | 99% | — | ||
49Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 5.76 0.60 up from 2010 | 589 | 40% | $3,085 | ||
50Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 5.58 2.10 up from 2010 | 84 | 100% | $3,090 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science431
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics128
- Food Science90
- Insect Science48
- Animal Science and Zoology44
- Agronomy and Crop Science34
- Soil Science30
- Aquatic Science28
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences23
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
286 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 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 857
- Window papers (baseline)
- 471,184 +35.0% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.65 +17.6% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.