Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Agronomy and Crop Science journal rankings 2015
37 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Agronomy and Crop Science has 37 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2014 to 0.72, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.21. The top three are GCB Bioenergy, Animal Feed Science and Technology, and Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal Practice.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
37 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 3.93 0.82 down from 2014 | 300 | 89% | $3,180 | ||
2Animal Feed Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 2.12 0.53 down from 2014 | 534 | 18% | $3,250 | ||
3Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.98Q1 | 2.22 0.82 down from 2014 | 112 | 7% | $3,000 | ||
4Journal of Dairy ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.86Q1 | 2.80 0.39 down from 2014 | 2,489 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
5Preventive Veterinary MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 2.76 0.03 up from 2014 | 614 | 28% | $3,280 | ||
6Transboundary and Emerging DiseasesWiley · Germany | 1.53Q1 | 2.65 0.12 up from 2014 | 383 | 72% | $2,710 | ||
7Scientific and Technical Review (World Organisation for Animal Health)World Organisation for Animal Health | 1.32Q1 | 1.99 0.36 up from 2014 | 218 | 32% | — | ||
8Grass and Forage ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 1.56 0.02 up from 2014 | 212 | 20% | $4,780 | ||
9Domestic Animal EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.21Q1 | 2.03 0.26 down from 2014 | 166 | 8% | $3,740 | ||
10Journal of Dairy ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 1.38 0.46 down from 2014 | 215 | 31% | $3,090 | ||
11The Journal of Agricultural ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 1.29 0.01 up from 2014 | 303 | 42% | $3,550 | ||
12Irish Veterinary JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 1.57 0.21 down from 2014 | 72 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
13Tropical Animal Health and ProductionSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.28no change | 681 | 16% | $4,090 | ||
14Small Ruminant ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 1.45 0.23 up from 2014 | 660 | 16% | $2,300 | ||
15Veterinary Medicine InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.18 0.57 down from 2014 | 138 | 100% | $950 | ||
16New Zealand Journal of Agricultural ResearchTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.83Q2 | 1.67 0.88 up from 2014 | 113 | 83% | — | ||
17Animal Production ScienceCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.78Q2 | 1.05 0.29 down from 2014 | 719 | 16% | — | ||
18Animal Science JournalWiley · Japan | 0.74Q2 | 1.15 0.01 down from 2014 | 383 | 11% | $4,000 | ||
19Grassland ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 1.06 0.20 up from 2014 | 98 | 12% | $2,970 | ||
20Animal ReproductionOAColégio Brasileiro de Patologia Animal (CBPA) · Brazil | 0.69Q3 | 0.89 0.02 up from 2014 | 104 | 100% | $450 | ||
21Australian Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 0.87 0.46 down from 2014 | 300 | 19% | $3,400 | ||
22Journal of MaterialsHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 1.06 0.25 up from 2014 | 99 | 100% | — | ||
23The Professional Animal ScientistElsevier BV · United States | 0.49Q3 | 0.50 0.13 down from 2014 | 250 | 100% | — | ||
24Veterinary WorldOAVeterinary World · India | 0.46Q3 | 0.74 0.18 down from 2014 | 537 | 100% | $600 | ||
25TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCESOAScientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) · Türkiye | 0.41Q3 | 0.59 0.02 down from 2014 | 352 | 58% | — | ||
26Journal of Veterinary MedicineHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 0.60 0.16 up from 2014 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
27American Journal of Animal and Veterinary SciencesOAUnited Arab Emirates | 0.37Q3 | 0.68 0.21 down from 2014 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
28Forage and GrazinglandsWiley · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.41 0.12 up from 2014 | 48 | — | — | ||
29Iranian journal of applied animal scienceOAIslamic Azad University of Rasht · Iran | 0.33Q4 | 0.39 0.05 up from 2014 | 246 | 100% | — | ||
30Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal ResearchOANetwork for the Veterinarians of Bangladesh · Bangladesh | 0.32Q4 | 0.53no 2014 value | 59 | 100% | $250 | — | |
31Majallah-i taḥqīqāt-i dāmpizishkī-i īrānShiraz University · Iran | 0.29Q4 | 0.34 0.14 down from 2014 | 160 | — | — | ||
32Advances in Animal BiosciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.28Q4 | 0.26no change | 67 | 31% | — | ||
33Journal of Veterinary ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.27Q4 | 0.58 0.13 up from 2014 | 324 | 100% | — | ||
34Open Journal of Veterinary MedicineOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.48 0.10 up from 2014 | 138 | 100% | — | ||
35The Bovine PractitionerOAAmerican Association of Bovine Practitioners · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.25 0.02 down from 2014 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
36Israel journal of veterinary medicineBioMed Central · Israel | 0.17Q4 | 0.38 0.04 up from 2014 | 32 | 0% | — | ||
37The Indian Journal of Animal SciencesOAIndian Council of Agricultural Research · India | 0.17Q4 | 0.31 0.02 up from 2014 | 598 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Agronomy and Crop Science highlighted.
- Plant Science554
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics144
- Food Science122
- Insect Science54
- Animal Science and Zoology51
- Agronomy and Crop Science37
- Aquatic Science36
- Soil Science35
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences32
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
8 additional Agronomy and Crop Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 37
- Window papers (baseline)
- 34,776 +14.9% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.723 -2.6% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 28 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 34 | 33 | 36 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 42 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,383 | 13,377 | 14,446 | 15,285 | 14,514 | 14,740 | 15,765 | 16,996 | 18,838 | 20,893 | 24,363 | 27,949 | 30,272 | 31,359 | 31,937 | 34,776 | 36,318 | 37,062 | 36,513 | 38,227 | 40,636 | 44,648 | 46,477 | 47,369 | 46,814 | 48,433 | |
| Median OJR | 0.42 | 0.57 | 0.58 | 0.764 | 0.69 | 0.78 | 0.84 | 0.722 | 0.758 | 0.61 | 0.7056 | 0.7061 | 0.74 | 0.708 | 0.64 | 0.723 | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.68 | 0.716 | 0.86 | 0.81 | 0.787 | 0.82 | 0.85 | 0.791 |
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.