Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Agronomy and Crop Science journal rankings 2016
38 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Agronomy and Crop Science has 38 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2015 to 0.63, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.11. The top three are GCB Bioenergy, Animal Feed Science and Technology, and Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal Practice.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
38 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 4.28 0.36 up from 2015 | 288 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
2Animal Feed Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 2.48 0.36 up from 2015 | 589 | 28% | $3,250 | ||
3Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.81Q1 | 1.63 0.59 down from 2015 | 103 | 9% | $3,000 | ||
4Journal of Dairy ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.75Q1 | 2.95 0.15 up from 2015 | 2,514 | 72% | $3,500 | ||
5Transboundary and Emerging DiseasesWiley · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 2.92 0.26 up from 2015 | 401 | 81% | $2,710 | ||
6Scientific and Technical Review (World Organisation for Animal Health)World Organisation for Animal Health | 1.48Q1 | 1.78 0.21 down from 2015 | 197 | 18% | — | ||
7Preventive Veterinary MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 2.32 0.44 down from 2015 | 628 | 46% | $3,280 | ||
8Grass and Forage ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 1.55 0.01 down from 2015 | 180 | 19% | $4,780 | ||
9Journal of Dairy ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 1.61 0.23 up from 2015 | 211 | 31% | $3,090 | ||
10The Journal of Agricultural ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.11Q1 | 1.24 0.05 down from 2015 | 324 | 43% | $3,550 | ||
11New Zealand Journal of Agricultural ResearchTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 1.08Q2 | 1.51 0.16 down from 2015 | 90 | 91% | — | ||
12Domestic Animal EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.08Q2 | 1.82 0.20 down from 2015 | 169 | 26% | $3,740 | ||
13Small Ruminant ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.86Q2 | 1.22 0.23 down from 2015 | 680 | 23% | $2,300 | ||
14Veterinary Medicine InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.36 0.18 up from 2015 | 109 | 100% | $950 | ||
15Tropical Animal Health and ProductionSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.12 0.16 down from 2015 | 624 | 18% | $4,090 | ||
16Animal Production ScienceCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.81Q2 | 1.18 0.13 up from 2015 | 874 | 25% | — | ||
17Animal Science JournalWiley · Japan | 0.77Q2 | 1.26 0.11 up from 2015 | 462 | 17% | $4,000 | ||
18Irish Veterinary JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 1.00 0.57 down from 2015 | 94 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
19Australian Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q2 | 0.89 0.02 up from 2015 | 285 | 17% | $3,400 | ||
20Grassland ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.76 0.30 down from 2015 | 100 | 20% | $2,970 | ||
21Journal of Veterinary MedicineHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 1.03 0.42 up from 2015 | 55 | 91% | — | ||
22Veterinary WorldOAVeterinary World · India | 0.55Q3 | 0.80 0.06 up from 2015 | 660 | 100% | $600 | ||
23The Professional Animal ScientistElsevier BV · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.69 0.20 up from 2015 | 238 | 99% | — | ||
24Animal ReproductionOAColégio Brasileiro de Patologia Animal (CBPA) · Brazil | 0.50Q3 | 0.41 0.49 down from 2015 | 112 | 100% | $450 | ||
25Journal of MaterialsHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 1.32 0.25 up from 2015 | 123 | 100% | — | ||
26TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCESOAScientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) · Türkiye | 0.44Q3 | 0.66 0.07 up from 2015 | 356 | 50% | — | ||
27Forage and GrazinglandsWiley · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.71 0.30 up from 2015 | 32 | — | — | ||
28Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal ResearchOANetwork for the Veterinarians of Bangladesh · Bangladesh | 0.38Q3 | 0.69 0.17 up from 2015 | 121 | 100% | $250 | ||
29Veterinary SciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.34Q3 | 0.98 0.26 up from 2015 | 46 | 100% | $2,534 | ||
30Advances in Animal BiosciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.33Q4 | 0.29 0.03 up from 2015 | 86 | 59% | — | ||
31American Journal of Animal and Veterinary SciencesOAUnited Arab Emirates | 0.33Q4 | 0.53 0.15 down from 2015 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
32Open Journal of Veterinary MedicineOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.32Q4 | 0.58 0.10 up from 2015 | 125 | 100% | — | ||
33Journal of Veterinary ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.28Q4 | 0.59 0.01 up from 2015 | 287 | 100% | — | ||
34Iranian journal of applied animal scienceOAIslamic Azad University of Rasht · Iran | 0.27Q4 | 0.31 0.08 down from 2015 | 297 | 100% | — | ||
35Majallah-i taḥqīqāt-i dāmpizishkī-i īrānShiraz University · Iran | 0.26Q4 | 0.36 0.02 up from 2015 | 108 | — | — | ||
36Israel journal of veterinary medicineBioMed Central · Israel | 0.26Q4 | 0.31 0.07 down from 2015 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
37The Indian Journal of Animal SciencesOAIndian Council of Agricultural Research · India | 0.14Q4 | 0.27 0.04 down from 2015 | 669 | 100% | — | ||
38The Bovine PractitionerOAAmerican Association of Bovine Practitioners · United States | 0.14Q4 | 0.20 0.05 down from 2015 | 76 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Agronomy and Crop Science highlighted.
- Plant Science570
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics144
- Food Science132
- Insect Science56
- Animal Science and Zoology51
- Aquatic Science39
- Agronomy and Crop Science38
- Soil Science37
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences30
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
6 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 38
- Window papers (baseline)
- 36,318 +15.8% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.63 -10.7% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.