Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Field ranking · 2013
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2013
956 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 956 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.23. The top three are The Journal of Peasant Studies, Ecology Letters, and Journal of Rural Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 15.16Q1 | 9.13 0.76 up from 2012 | 155 | 7% | — | ||
2Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 8.78Q1 | 12.29no change | 496 | 41% | $5,300 | ||
3Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.68Q1 | 3.82 0.72 up from 2012 | 166 | 27% | $4,090 | ||
4Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 5.37Q1 | 2.37 0.05 down from 2012 | 121 | 23% | $3,820 | ||
5The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 5.32Q1 | 10.36 0.16 up from 2012 | 1,042 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
6Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.25Q1 | 7.11 0.54 up from 2012 | 76 | 20% | — | ||
7Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 4.87Q1 | 6.11 1.15 down from 2012 | 80 | 7% | $5,000 | ||
8The Arabidopsis BookOAUnited States | 4.68Q1 | 12.80 5.80 up from 2012 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
9PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 4.64Q1 | 8.53 0.15 up from 2012 | 1,549 | 85% | $3,851 | ||
10Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 4.49Q1 | 2.78 0.78 up from 2012 | 76 | 31% | $3,920 | ||
11The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.32Q1 | 7.75 0.07 down from 2012 | 1,075 | 65% | $5,450 | ||
12New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 6.69 0.07 up from 2012 | 1,290 | 58% | $5,790 | ||
13Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 7.26 0.22 down from 2012 | 294 | 66% | $4,320 | ||
14Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 5.98 0.22 up from 2012 | 227 | 16% | $5,440 | ||
15Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 3.29 0.71 down from 2012 | 242 | 29% | $4,000 | ||
16Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 6.22no change | 1,507 | 98% | — | ||
17Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 7.23 1.05 up from 2012 | 1,302 | 89% | $4,341 | ||
18Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 3.80Q1 | 5.71 0.95 up from 2012 | 479 | 75% | $3,000 | ||
19Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 3.75Q1 | 6.27 0.68 down from 2012 | 366 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
20Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 1.42 0.63 down from 2012 | 163 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
21Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 5.05 0.49 down from 2012 | 419 | 56% | $3,000 | ||
22GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 5.64 0.06 up from 2012 | 212 | 71% | $3,180 | ||
23Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 6.57 0.97 up from 2012 | 546 | 65% | $5,440 | ||
24Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.45Q1 | 6.04 0.04 down from 2012 | 245 | 15% | — | ||
25Molecular Plant PathologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 5.44 1.09 up from 2012 | 249 | 92% | $3,330 | ||
26Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and SystematicsElsevier BV · Germany | 3.44Q1 | 4.72 1.02 up from 2012 | 93 | 31% | $3,570 | ||
27Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 4.63 0.05 up from 2012 | 949 | 17% | $4,950 | ||
28The American NaturalistUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.35Q1 | 5.07 0.09 up from 2012 | 521 | 36% | — | ||
29BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 5.59 0.35 down from 2012 | 724 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
30Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.12Q1 | 4.49 0.65 up from 2012 | 734 | 20% | $4,190 | ||
31Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.06Q1 | 3.04 0.09 down from 2012 | 389 | 12% | $4,570 | ||
32Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.93Q1 | 4.33 0.01 up from 2012 | 47 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
33Marine DrugsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.91Q1 | 4.35 1.10 down from 2012 | 524 | 100% | $3,499 | ||
34Plant and Cell PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 6.10 1.09 up from 2012 | 575 | 47% | $3,085 | ||
35European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.90Q1 | 3.34 0.51 down from 2012 | 230 | 16% | $3,200 | ||
36The Plant GenomeOACrop Science Society of America · United States | 2.89Q1 | 5.31 1.16 up from 2012 | 74 | 100% | $3,140 | ||
37International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 2.52 1.00 down from 2012 | 117 | 7% | — | ||
38Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 4.55 0.36 up from 2012 | 664 | 13% | $4,990 | ||
39EvolutionOxford University Press · United States | 2.81Q1 | 4.66 0.11 up from 2012 | 933 | 43% | $3,214 | ||
40Theoretical and Applied GeneticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.80Q1 | 4.70 0.28 up from 2012 | 768 | 23% | $5,190 | ||
41Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 4.02 0.07 up from 2012 | 551 | 16% | $4,210 | ||
42International Journal of Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.76Q1 | 3.99 0.42 down from 2012 | 1,075 | 17% | $4,090 | ||
43Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 2.75Q1 | 4.21 0.68 up from 2012 | 175 | 87% | $2,990 | ||
44The Quarterly Review of BiologyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.75Q1 | 2.78 1.23 down from 2012 | 75 | 1% | — | ||
45OikosWiley · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 3.95 0.45 up from 2012 | 722 | 25% | $3,640 | ||
46Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 3.68 0.56 up from 2012 | 655 | 17% | $3,680 | ||
47Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 3.54 1.22 down from 2012 | 128 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
48Biology LettersOARoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 4.24 0.40 up from 2012 | 740 | 98% | — | ||
49Plant ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 4.78 0.96 up from 2012 | 552 | 15% | $3,760 | ||
50MycorrhizaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.57Q1 | 3.54 0.20 up from 2012 | 182 | 14% | $3,990 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science489
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics137
- Food Science106
- Insect Science53
- Animal Science and Zoology48
- Agronomy and Crop Science36
- Aquatic Science31
- Soil Science31
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences24
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
340 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 956
- Window papers (baseline)
- 520,260 +22.3% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.63 +16.9% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.