Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Insect Science journal rankings 2015
54 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Insect Science has 54 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.15 on 2014 to 0.63, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Journal of Chemical Ecology, Journal of Apicultural Research, and Journal of Pest Science.
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)
54 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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1Journal of Chemical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 3.32 0.25 down from 2014 | 463 | 28% | $3,890 | ||
2Journal of Apicultural ResearchTaylor & Francis | 1.95Q1 | 3.65 1.02 up from 2014 | 213 | 15% | — | ||
3Journal of Pest ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.86Q1 | 3.14 0.33 up from 2014 | 228 | 19% | $4,790 | ||
4Journal of Integrated Pest ManagementOAOxford University Press · United States | 1.62Q1 | 2.63 1.31 up from 2014 | 45 | 100% | $1,175 | ||
5Annual Review of EntomologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.55Q1 | 11.63 2.49 down from 2014 | 82 | 52% | — | ||
6Biological ControlOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.53Q1 | 2.40 0.02 up from 2014 | 485 | 34% | $3,390 | ||
7BioControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 1.83 0.04 up from 2014 | 204 | 17% | $3,790 | ||
8Arthropod-Plant InteractionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 1.78 0.33 up from 2014 | 172 | 21% | $3,090 | ||
9Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataWiley · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 1.67 0.38 down from 2014 | 375 | 24% | $4,430 | ||
10Journal of Insect PhysiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 2.56 0.41 down from 2014 | 465 | 22% | $3,430 | ||
11Agricultural and Forest EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 1.78 0.09 down from 2014 | 137 | 18% | $4,410 | ||
12Journal of Invertebrate PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.22Q1 | 2.45 0.58 down from 2014 | 403 | 18% | $3,760 | ||
13Bulletin of Entomological ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 1.64 0.19 down from 2014 | 254 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
14Journal of Economic EntomologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.08Q1 | 2.03 0.07 up from 2014 | 887 | 20% | $4,328 | ||
15InsectsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.07Q2 | 2.14 0.16 up from 2014 | 186 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
16Environmental EntomologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.02Q2 | 1.69 0.03 up from 2014 | 551 | 19% | $4,328 | ||
17Journal of Applied EntomologyWiley · Germany | 0.98Q2 | 1.27 0.45 down from 2014 | 246 | 16% | $4,780 | ||
18SpringerPlusOASpringer International Publishing · Switzerland | 0.98Q2 | 1.72 0.06 up from 2014 | 1,573 | 100% | — | ||
19Insect ScienceWiley · Australia | 0.95Q2 | 1.33 0.55 down from 2014 | 299 | 14% | $3,400 | ||
20Psyche A Journal of EntomologyOACambridge Entomological Club · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.02 0.42 down from 2014 | 227 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
21Physiological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.52 0.18 down from 2014 | 135 | 18% | $3,920 | ||
22Journal of insect science/Journal of Insect ScienceOAOxford University Press · India | 0.92Q2 | 1.37 0.16 down from 2014 | 218 | — | — | ||
23Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.35 0.13 down from 2014 | 354 | 13% | $4,328 | ||
24Australian Journal of EntomologyWiley · Australia | 0.82Q2 | 0.95 0.17 down from 2014 | 74 | — | — | ||
25Journal of Apicultural ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.76Q2 | 0.82 0.70 down from 2014 | 86 | 100% | $539 | ||
26Applied Entomology and ZoologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.69Q2 | 1.06 0.02 down from 2014 | 221 | 6% | $3,790 | ||
27Neotropical EntomologySpringer Nature · Brazil | 0.65Q2 | 1.03 0.24 down from 2014 | 251 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
28Biocontrol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 0.99 0.16 down from 2014 | 395 | 9% | — | ||
29Journal of Asia-Pacific EntomologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.61Q3 | 1.16 0.10 down from 2014 | 310 | 7% | $3,000 | ||
30Journal of Insect ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.60Q3 | 0.61 1.82 down from 2014 | 490 | 100% | $2,170 | ||
31Florida EntomologistOAFlorida Entomological Society · United States | 0.59Q3 | 0.93 0.03 down from 2014 | 704 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
32The Canadian EntomologistCambridge University Press · United States | 0.59Q3 | 0.95 0.01 down from 2014 | 263 | 26% | $3,308 | ||
33PhytoparasiticaSpringer Science+Business Media · Israel | 0.59Q3 | 0.92 0.18 down from 2014 | 219 | 13% | $3,090 | ||
34African EntomologyOAPeter Lang · South Africa | 0.51Q3 | 0.92 0.30 up from 2014 | 157 | 100% | $369 | ||
35Advances in EntomologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.51Q3 | 0.67 0.42 up from 2014 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
36Journal of Entomological ScienceGeorgia Entomological Society · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.72 0.17 up from 2014 | 133 | 0% | — | ||
37International Journal of Tropical Insect ScienceSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 0.58no change | 141 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
38Current Opinion in Insect ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.42Q3 | 3.33no 2014 value | 72 | 37% | $4,610 | — | |
39Journal of Entomological and Acarological ResearchOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.40Q3 | 0.71 0.11 down from 2014 | 72 | 100% | $269 | ||
40Molluscan ResearchTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.39Q3 | 0.68 0.06 down from 2014 | 76 | 11% | — | ||
41Redia-Giornale Di ZoologiaCoppini | 0.37Q3 | 0.67 0.01 up from 2014 | 53 | 0% | — | ||
42Journal of EntomologyOAPakistan | 0.32Q4 | 0.34 0.15 down from 2014 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
43Southwestern EntomologistSociety of Southwestern Entomologists · United States | 0.30Q4 | 0.57 0.03 down from 2014 | 210 | 1% | — | ||
44Entomological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.30Q4 | 0.88 0.26 up from 2014 | 119 | 11% | $3,310 | ||
45Folia MalacologicaOABogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe · Poland | 0.29Q4 | 0.54 0.14 up from 2014 | 118 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Veterinary Science & TechnologyOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.34 0.10 up from 2014 | 214 | 26% | — | ||
47Revista Colombiana de EntomologíaColombia | 0.19Q4 | 0.19 0.17 down from 2014 | 250 | 3% | — | ||
48International Journal of Industrial EntomologyOASouth Korea | 0.17Q4 | 0.76 0.31 up from 2014 | 98 | 85% | — | ||
49Entomological NewsAmerican Entomological Society · United States | 0.16Q4 | 0.28no change | 147 | 2% | — | ||
50Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest ControlOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 0.15Q4 | 0.18 0.01 down from 2014 | 159 | 0% | $2,190 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Insect 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.
10 additional Insect 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
- 54
- Window papers (baseline)
- 30,792 +12.5% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.631 -11.6% 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 | 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.