Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Soil Science journal rankings 2015
35 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Soil Science has 35 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.14 on 2014 to 1.42, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.26. The top three are Land Degradation and Development, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
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)
35 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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1Land Degradation and DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 6.57 1.69 up from 2014 | 223 | 18% | $5,230 | ||
2Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.25Q1 | 4.08 0.12 down from 2014 | 866 | 26% | $4,190 | ||
3Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 4.62 0.03 up from 2014 | 1,028 | 26% | $4,950 | ||
4Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 3.02 0.21 down from 2014 | 456 | 17% | $4,570 | ||
5European Journal of Soil ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 4.37 1.06 up from 2014 | 275 | 18% | $4,490 | ||
6Agricultural Water ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 3.01 0.39 down from 2014 | 683 | 18% | $3,070 | ||
7Biology and Fertility of SoilsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.36Q1 | 3.04 0.44 down from 2014 | 329 | 21% | $4,790 | ||
8GeodermaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.32Q1 | 3.65 0.24 up from 2014 | 999 | 23% | $3,320 | ||
9CATENAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 3.11 0.24 down from 2014 | 649 | 18% | $3,680 | ||
10Applied Soil EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.23Q2 | 2.89 0.26 down from 2014 | 513 | 23% | $4,320 | ||
11Soil Use and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.97Q2 | 2.39 0.39 up from 2014 | 213 | 27% | $4,120 | ||
12European Journal of Soil BiologyElsevier BV · France | 1.86Q2 | 2.41 0.12 up from 2014 | 227 | 9% | $3,800 | ||
13Irrigation ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.82Q2 | 2.25 0.05 up from 2014 | 134 | 27% | $3,990 | ||
14Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 1.65Q2 | 2.25 0.14 down from 2014 | 698 | 15% | $2,020 | ||
15Nutrient Cycling in AgroecosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.65Q2 | 1.80 0.66 down from 2014 | 182 | 38% | $3,890 | ||
16Journal of Soil and Water ConservationSoil and Water Conservation Society · United States | 1.61Q2 | 1.92 0.30 up from 2014 | 246 | 35% | — | ||
17PedobiologiaElsevier BV · Germany | 1.46Q2 | 2.09 0.67 up from 2014 | 106 | 17% | $3,260 | ||
18Geoderma RegionalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q2 | 1.90no 2014 value | 30 | 28% | $2,310 | — | |
19Soil ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.42Q3 | 2.13 0.39 up from 2014 | 229 | 16% | — | ||
20Journal of Soils and SedimentsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.42Q3 | 2.43 0.05 down from 2014 | 573 | 20% | $3,890 | ||
21Applied and Environmental Soil ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.41Q3 | 1.66 0.42 down from 2014 | 130 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
22PedosphereElsevier BV · China | 1.29Q3 | 1.60 0.37 down from 2014 | 261 | 5% | $3,000 | ||
23Canadian Journal of Soil ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.16Q3 | 1.27 0.32 down from 2014 | 203 | 71% | — | ||
24Archives of Agronomy and Soil ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.13Q3 | 1.88 1.08 up from 2014 | 363 | 5% | — | ||
25International Journal Of Recycling of Organic Waste in AgricultureOASpringer Nature · Iran | 1.09Q3 | 1.50 0.21 up from 2014 | 75 | 100% | — | ||
26Soil ScienceLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.90Q3 | 1.02 0.18 down from 2014 | 215 | 11% | — | ||
27ISRN Soil ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 0.79Q3 | 1.33 0.31 up from 2014 | 45 | — | — | ||
28Compost Science & UtilizationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.71Q4 | 0.85 0.06 down from 2014 | 86 | 3% | — | ||
29Irrigation and DrainageWiley · United Kingdom | 0.71Q4 | 0.76 0.08 up from 2014 | 241 | 10% | $3,450 | ||
30Open Journal of Soil ScienceOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.71Q4 | 0.83 0.17 up from 2014 | 141 | 100% | — | ||
31Revista Brasileira de Ciência do SoloOASociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo · Brazil | 0.70Q4 | 0.97 0.28 down from 2014 | 545 | 100% | $100 | ||
32Soil and Water ResearchOAÚstav zemědělských a potravinářských informací · Czechia | 0.65Q4 | 0.90 0.17 down from 2014 | 68 | 100% | $609 | ||
33International Soil and Water Conservation ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 0.53Q4 | 0.53 0.27 up from 2014 | 59 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
34Soil HorizonsWiley · United States | 0.44Q4 | 0.57 0.05 up from 2014 | 155 | 62% | — | ||
35Irrigation & Drainage Systems EngineeringOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.41Q4 | 0.66 0.29 down from 2014 | 54 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Soil 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.
6 additional Soil 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
- 35
- Window papers (baseline)
- 32,598 +31.3% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.42 -13.5% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 24 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 33 | 35 | 37 | 37 | 39 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 41 | 42 | 40 | 39 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,748 | 9,099 | 10,240 | 11,138 | 11,116 | 11,430 | 12,496 | 14,005 | 15,614 | 17,540 | 20,048 | 22,776 | 24,823 | 26,542 | 28,955 | 32,598 | 35,237 | 37,010 | 38,759 | 41,955 | 45,293 | 48,749 | 50,177 | 51,294 | 52,438 | 56,582 | |
| Median OJR | 1.13 | 1.23 | 1.255 | 1.34 | 1.31 | 1.245 | 1.238 | 1.358 | 1.433 | 1.428 | 1.59 | 1.556 | 1.64 | 1.66 | 1.557 | 1.42 | 1.53 | 1.39 | 1.33 | 1.253 | 1.28 | 1.20 | 1.356 | 1.247 | 1.243 | 1.29 |
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.