Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2012
23 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 23 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.15 on 2011 to 0.68, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.99. The top three are The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Rural Studies, and Journal of Agrarian Change.
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 of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
23 ranked journals
Filters
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% | — | ||
2Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.78Q1 | 3.10 0.85 up from 2011 | 139 | 24% | $4,090 | ||
3Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 4.66Q1 | 2.42 0.52 up from 2011 | 120 | 18% | $3,820 | ||
4Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 4.23Q1 | 2.00 0.27 down from 2011 | 76 | 32% | $3,920 | ||
5International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.06Q1 | 3.52 0.10 up from 2011 | 103 | 29% | — | ||
6Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 2.05 0.26 up from 2011 | 161 | 18% | $4,150 | ||
7Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.85Q2 | 3.99 0.30 up from 2011 | 205 | 30% | $4,000 | ||
8The Journal of Agricultural Education and ExtensionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.61Q2 | 1.58 0.26 up from 2011 | 80 | 17% | — | ||
9Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 2.57Q2 | 1.38 0.37 down from 2011 | 133 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
10Outlook on AgricultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 0.89 0.01 up from 2011 | 128 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
11Journal of International Agricultural and Extension EducationOANew Prairie Press · United States | 0.86Q2 | 0.87 0.31 up from 2011 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
12Journal of Agricultural EducationOAAmerican Association for Agricultural Education · United States | 0.68Q2 | 0.40 0.18 down from 2011 | 156 | 100% | — | ||
13EuroChoicesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 0.44 0.22 up from 2011 | 114 | 25% | $3,470 | ||
14Journal of ExtensionOAClemson University · United States | 0.46Q3 | 0.57 0.15 up from 2011 | 494 | 100% | — | ||
15European CountrysideOADe Gruyter Open · Czechia | 0.45Q3 | 0.28 0.29 down from 2011 | 56 | 100% | $129 | ||
16Journal of Agricultural & Food InformationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.51 0.21 up from 2011 | 90 | 7% | — | ||
17Revista Fitotecnia MexicanaOAMexican Society of Phytogenetics · Mexico | 0.33Q3 | 0.24 0.04 down from 2011 | 176 | 100% | — | ||
18Journal of natural resources and life sciences educationWiley · United States | 0.33Q3 | 0.33 0.05 up from 2011 | 106 | 5% | — | ||
19Agricultural Economics Research ReviewAgricultural Economics Research Association · India | 0.22Q4 | 0.09 0.03 up from 2011 | 123 | 13% | — | ||
20Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural ScienceAgricultural Academy of Bulgaria · Bulgaria | 0.20Q4 | 0.24 0.01 down from 2011 | 177 | 0% | — | ||
21Journal of Applied CommunicationsOANew Prairie Press · United States | 0.15Q4 | 0.28 0.13 up from 2011 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
22Journal of developments in sustainable agricultureOAUniversity of Tsukuba · Japan | 0.13Q4 | 0.12 0.01 up from 2011 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
23German Journal of Agricultural EconomicsOADeutscher Fachverlag · Germany | 0.09Q4 | 0.10 0.08 up from 2011 | 99 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with General Agricultural and Biological Sciences highlighted.
- 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.
13 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 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
- 23
- Window papers (baseline)
- 21,937 +47.9% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.68 -27.6% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 15 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 30 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 35 | 33 | 33 | 33 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,632 | 8,998 | 9,770 | 10,457 | 10,035 | 10,312 | 11,035 | 12,024 | 13,213 | 14,835 | 17,232 | 19,807 | 21,937 | 24,350 | 27,020 | 30,850 | 33,992 | 37,869 | 42,117 | 48,034 | 53,657 | 60,120 | 64,001 | 66,228 | 69,137 | 76,919 | |
| Median OJR | 0.460 | 0.456 | 0.55 | 0.73 | 0.67 | 0.34 | 0.61 | 0.86 | 0.71 | 0.9394 | 0.40 | 0.83 | 0.68 | 0.796 | 0.852 | 0.853 | 1.07 | 0.798 | 0.9391 | 0.88 | 0.96 | 0.91 | 0.72 | 0.82 | 1.04 | 0.89 |
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.