Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Field ranking · 2012
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2012
902 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 902 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.30. The top three are The Journal of Peasant Studies, Ecology Letters, and The Plant Cell.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
Up to Life Sciences902 ranked journals
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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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.80Q1 | 8.37 3.11 up from 2011 | 134 | 23% | — | ||
2Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 8.82Q1 | 12.29 0.53 up from 2011 | 444 | 23% | $5,300 | ||
3The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 5.17Q1 | 10.20 0.37 up from 2011 | 985 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
4Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.05Q1 | 6.57 0.32 up from 2011 | 72 | 13% | — | ||
5Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.78Q1 | 3.10 0.85 up from 2011 | 139 | 24% | $4,090 | ||
6Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 4.66Q1 | 2.42 0.52 up from 2011 | 120 | 18% | $3,820 | ||
7Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 4.55Q1 | 7.25 1.20 up from 2011 | 81 | 5% | $5,000 | ||
8PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 4.46Q1 | 8.38 0.34 up from 2011 | 1,612 | 85% | $3,851 | ||
9New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 4.39Q1 | 6.62 0.02 up from 2011 | 1,233 | 54% | $5,790 | ||
10Reviews in AquacultureWiley · United Kingdom | 4.25Q1 | 2.76 1.05 down from 2011 | 51 | 43% | $4,480 | ||
11Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 4.23Q1 | 2.00 0.27 down from 2011 | 76 | 32% | $3,920 | ||
12The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.20Q1 | 7.82 0.18 up from 2011 | 1,074 | 57% | $5,450 | ||
13Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 7.49 0.57 up from 2011 | 269 | 69% | $4,320 | ||
14International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.06Q1 | 3.52 0.10 up from 2011 | 103 | 29% | — | ||
15Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.00Q1 | 6.07 0.27 down from 2011 | 186 | 11% | — | ||
16Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 2.05 0.26 up from 2011 | 161 | 18% | $4,150 | ||
17Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 5.75 0.78 up from 2011 | 238 | 9% | $5,440 | ||
18Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 6.22 0.49 up from 2011 | 1,584 | 100% | — | ||
19Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 3.99 0.30 up from 2011 | 205 | 30% | $4,000 | ||
20Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 5.60 0.84 down from 2011 | 553 | 54% | $5,440 | ||
21Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 6.18 0.06 up from 2011 | 1,294 | 88% | $4,341 | ||
22GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 5.58 0.49 up from 2011 | 149 | 67% | $3,180 | ||
23Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.62Q1 | 5.54 0.55 up from 2011 | 443 | 58% | $3,000 | ||
24Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 3.60Q1 | 6.95 0.14 down from 2011 | 323 | 99% | $5,000 | ||
25Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 3.59Q1 | 3.70 0.62 down from 2011 | 89 | 17% | $3,570 | ||
26Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.51Q1 | 4.76 0.59 down from 2011 | 490 | 67% | $3,000 | ||
27European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.50Q1 | 3.85 0.66 up from 2011 | 191 | 25% | $3,200 | ||
28Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 4.76 1.00 up from 2011 | 122 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
29The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.40Q1 | 4.98 0.01 down from 2011 | 593 | 29% | — | ||
30Botanical Journal of the Linnean SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 2.52 2.67 down from 2011 | 290 | 24% | $3,541 | ||
31Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.30Q1 | 3.53 0.62 down from 2011 | 173 | 79% | $2,990 | ||
32The Arabidopsis BookOAUnited States | 3.27Q1 | 7.00 2.43 up from 2011 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
33Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 4.58 0.20 up from 2011 | 930 | 12% | $4,950 | ||
34BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 5.93 0.92 up from 2011 | 630 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
35Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.17Q1 | 3.84 0.25 down from 2011 | 700 | 13% | $4,190 | ||
36Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.17Q1 | 3.13 0.34 up from 2011 | 365 | 14% | $4,570 | ||
37Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 4.35 0.26 down from 2011 | 249 | 89% | $3,330 | ||
38International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.99Q1 | 4.40 0.23 up from 2011 | 1,105 | 12% | $4,090 | ||
39International Journal of Plant GenomicsHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 2.98Q1 | 3.44 0.70 up from 2011 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
40Marine DrugsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.95Q1 | 5.45 0.15 up from 2011 | 378 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
41Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 3.95 0.30 up from 2011 | 525 | 11% | $4,210 | ||
42Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.77Q1 | 4.32 1.08 up from 2011 | 43 | 19% | $3,090 | ||
43The Plant GenomeOACrop Science Society of America · United States | 2.76Q1 | 4.16 0.70 up from 2011 | 81 | 100% | $3,140 | ||
44EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 2.74Q1 | 4.55 0.39 down from 2011 | 967 | 37% | $3,214 | ||
45Annals of BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 3.77 0.27 down from 2011 | 863 | 100% | $3,617 | ||
46Frontiers in ZoologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 4.91 0.67 down from 2011 | 96 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
47Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 4.19 0.88 up from 2011 | 587 | 12% | $4,990 | ||
48Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 3.12 0.13 down from 2011 | 608 | 16% | $3,680 | ||
49OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 3.50 0.16 up from 2011 | 743 | 24% | $3,640 | ||
50Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 3.84 0.09 down from 2011 | 786 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science463
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics130
- Food Science98
- Insect Science48
- Animal Science and Zoology45
- Agronomy and Crop Science33
- Aquatic Science31
- Soil Science30
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences23
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
302 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 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 902
- Window papers (baseline)
- 501,593 +31.5% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.66 +23.2% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.