Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Insect Science journal rankings 2012
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Insect Science has 48 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.71, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.20. The top three are BioControl, Biological Control, and Journal of Chemical Ecology.
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)
48 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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1BioControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 2.67 0.44 up from 2011 | 221 | 21% | $3,790 | ||
2Biological ControlOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.99Q1 | 2.42 0.36 down from 2011 | 524 | 21% | $3,390 | ||
3Journal of Chemical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 3.17 0.03 down from 2011 | 459 | 22% | $3,890 | ||
4Journal of Pest ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.62Q1 | 2.79 0.97 up from 2011 | 167 | 16% | $4,790 | ||
5Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataWiley · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 2.34 0.43 up from 2011 | 389 | 14% | $4,430 | ||
6Bulletin of Entomological ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 2.11 0.46 up from 2011 | 256 | 35% | $3,550 | ||
7Journal of Economic EntomologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.24 0.07 up from 2011 | 876 | 51% | $4,328 | ||
8Journal of Invertebrate PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.38Q1 | 2.51 0.02 up from 2011 | 416 | 15% | $3,760 | ||
9Agricultural and Forest EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 1.62 0.19 down from 2011 | 150 | 14% | $4,410 | ||
10Journal of Apicultural ResearchTaylor & Francis | 1.29Q1 | 2.22 0.27 up from 2011 | 175 | 21% | — | ||
11Environmental EntomologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.22Q1 | 1.85 0.02 up from 2011 | 642 | 40% | $4,328 | ||
12Arthropod-Plant InteractionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.20Q1 | 1.65 0.13 up from 2011 | 117 | 10% | $3,090 | ||
13Journal of Insect PhysiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 2.58 0.07 down from 2011 | 660 | 20% | $3,430 | ||
14Annual Review of EntomologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.14Q2 | 10.96 0.69 down from 2011 | 84 | 24% | — | ||
15Journal of Applied EntomologyWiley · Germany | 1.10Q2 | 1.74 0.27 up from 2011 | 341 | 11% | $4,780 | ||
16Journal of Insect ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 1.08Q2 | 1.60 0.21 up from 2011 | 458 | 100% | $2,170 | ||
17Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 1.47 0.10 up from 2011 | 436 | 40% | $4,328 | ||
18Physiological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.58 0.06 up from 2011 | 154 | 19% | $3,920 | ||
19Insect ScienceWiley · Australia | 0.88Q2 | 1.73 0.37 up from 2011 | 240 | 16% | $3,400 | ||
20InsectsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.84Q2 | 1.52 1.52 up from 2011 | 48 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
21The Canadian EntomologistCambridge University Press · United States | 0.81Q2 | 1.15 0.15 up from 2011 | 160 | 15% | $3,308 | ||
22Neotropical EntomologySpringer Nature · Brazil | 0.77Q2 | 1.07 0.34 up from 2011 | 399 | 23% | $3,090 | ||
23Journal of EntomologyOAPakistan | 0.77Q2 | 1.10 0.32 down from 2011 | 114 | 100% | — | ||
24Applied Entomology and ZoologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.75Q2 | 1.12 0.17 down from 2011 | 252 | 8% | $3,790 | ||
25Molluscan ResearchTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.68Q3 | 0.98 0.22 up from 2011 | 59 | 33% | — | ||
26PhytoparasiticaSpringer Science+Business Media · Israel | 0.67Q3 | 1.07 0.05 down from 2011 | 183 | 11% | $3,090 | ||
27Biocontrol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 1.02 0.04 down from 2011 | 314 | 6% | — | ||
28Florida EntomologistOAFlorida Entomological Society · United States | 0.62Q3 | 0.93 0.08 down from 2011 | 414 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
29Australian Journal of EntomologyWiley · Australia | 0.61Q3 | 0.98 0.07 up from 2011 | 168 | 2% | — | ||
30Journal of Asia-Pacific EntomologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.61Q3 | 0.97 0.20 down from 2011 | 243 | 1% | $3,000 | ||
31Psyche A Journal of EntomologyOACambridge Entomological Club · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.98 0.39 up from 2011 | 130 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
32African EntomologyOAPeter Lang · South Africa | 0.53Q3 | 0.97 0.43 up from 2011 | 137 | 100% | $369 | ||
33International Journal of Tropical Insect ScienceSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.67 0.03 down from 2011 | 121 | 29% | $3,290 | ||
34Southwestern EntomologistSociety of Southwestern Entomologists · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.70 0.12 up from 2011 | 192 | 0% | — | ||
35Journal of Entomological ScienceGeorgia Entomological Society · United States | 0.33Q3 | 0.66 0.31 up from 2011 | 133 | 0% | — | ||
36Entomological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.28Q3 | 0.41 0.10 down from 2011 | 165 | 4% | $3,310 | ||
37Journal of Entomological and Acarological ResearchOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.27Q4 | 0.39 0.15 up from 2011 | 54 | 100% | $269 | ||
38Journal of Apicultural ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.26Q4 | 0.60 0.14 up from 2011 | 62 | 100% | $539 | ||
39Revista Colombiana de EntomologíaColombia | 0.24Q4 | 0.25 0.06 down from 2011 | 248 | 74% | — | ||
40Redia-Giornale Di ZoologiaCoppini | 0.20Q4 | 0.00 0.34 down from 2011 | 64 | 0% | — | ||
41Entomological NewsAmerican Entomological Society · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.13 0.03 down from 2011 | 171 | 5% | — | ||
42Folia MalacologicaOABogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe · Poland | 0.16Q4 | 0.24 0.10 down from 2011 | 218 | 26% | — | ||
43Entomologia GeneralisE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.13Q4 | 0.12 0.02 down from 2011 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
44Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest ControlOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 0.10Q4 | 0.06 0.06 down from 2011 | 116 | 0% | $2,190 | ||
45International Journal of Industrial EntomologyOASouth Korea | 0.09Q4 | 0.28 0.11 up from 2011 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
46Acta Entomologica SinicaPublisher not listed | 0.06Q4 | 0.11 0.02 up from 2011 | 903 | 0% | — | ||
47American bee journalDadant & Sons · United States | 0.04Q4 | 0.03no change | 117 | 0% | — | ||
48Bee WorldTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.03Q4 | 0.06 0.03 down from 2011 | 102 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Insect Science 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.
10 additional Insect Science 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
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 27,378 +26.3% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.71 +11.5% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 42 | 42 | 44 | 45 | 44 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 48 | 48 | 53 | 52 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 54 | 53 | 51 | 51 | 49 | 49 | 48 | 49 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 12,185 | 13,965 | 14,821 | 15,813 | 15,398 | 16,451 | 17,731 | 19,230 | 20,335 | 21,674 | 23,818 | 25,949 | 27,378 | 28,190 | 29,372 | 30,792 | 31,557 | 33,175 | 33,791 | 35,204 | 35,850 | 38,413 | 40,647 | 42,274 | 42,994 | 44,734 | |
| Median OJR | 0.48 | 0.463 | 0.398 | 0.49 | 0.395 | 0.401 | 0.462 | 0.45 | 0.58 | 0.64 | 0.629 | 0.6804 | 0.71 | 0.6799 | 0.78 | 0.631 | 0.62 | 0.59 | 0.651 | 0.645 | 0.66 | 0.70 | 0.75 | 0.69 | 0.650 | 0.682 |
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.