Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2017
1,119 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 1,119 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.56, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.11. The top three are The Journal of Peasant Studies, Ecology Letters, and Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.54Q1 | 4.06 1.29 down from 2016 | 237 | 28% | — | ||
2Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 6.90Q1 | 10.27 1.08 down from 2016 | 435 | 33% | $5,300 | ||
3Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 5.59Q1 | 9.78 1.12 up from 2016 | 178 | 16% | $5,000 | ||
4Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 8.60 1.09 up from 2016 | 402 | 21% | $5,440 | ||
5Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 4.16 4.82 down from 2016 | 60 | 30% | — | ||
6Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.37Q1 | 3.59 0.09 up from 2016 | 390 | 47% | $4,090 | ||
7Microbial Ecology in Health and DiseaseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.26Q1 | 10.84 2.07 up from 2016 | 55 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
8Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 4.22Q1 | 5.84 0.53 up from 2016 | 203 | 97% | $2,990 | ||
9SOILOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 4.12Q1 | 6.34 4.52 down from 2016 | 100 | 100% | $1,110 | ||
10The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 4.03Q1 | 8.00 0.46 down from 2016 | 853 | 100% | $4,934 | ||
11New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 7.17 0.12 down from 2016 | 1,622 | 66% | $5,790 | ||
12Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.62Q1 | 5.77 1.20 up from 2016 | 74 | 11% | $3,090 | ||
13Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 5.86 0.70 down from 2016 | 1,771 | 100% | — | ||
14Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 7.12 0.19 up from 2016 | 483 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
15Nature PlantsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 6.35 1.23 up from 2016 | 420 | 31% | $12,690 | ||
16Pharmacognosy Reviews/Bioinformatics Trends/Pharmacognosy reviewMedknow · India | 3.50Q1 | 3.91 1.09 down from 2016 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
17Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 5.22 0.07 up from 2016 | 539 | 63% | $3,000 | ||
18Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 5.75 0.12 up from 2016 | 971 | 41% | $4,950 | ||
19GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 4.88 0.60 up from 2016 | 285 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
20The Plant GenomeOACrop Science Society of America · United States | 3.33Q1 | 4.88 0.55 up from 2016 | 172 | 100% | $3,140 | ||
21Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 2.06 0.31 up from 2016 | 164 | 44% | $4,150 | ||
22Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 5.76 0.64 down from 2016 | 1,654 | 90% | $4,341 | ||
23Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.22Q1 | 2.62 0.36 up from 2016 | 112 | 56% | $3,920 | ||
24Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 2.21 0.39 down from 2016 | 111 | 31% | $3,820 | ||
25PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 3.05Q1 | 6.20 0.39 down from 2016 | 1,678 | 95% | $3,851 | ||
26The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 6.23 0.07 down from 2016 | 969 | 51% | $5,450 | ||
27Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 2.97Q1 | 6.54 0.63 up from 2016 | 560 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
28Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 5.38 0.23 up from 2016 | 1,272 | 19% | $4,990 | ||
29Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 4.13 0.21 down from 2016 | 1,190 | 39% | $4,190 | ||
30Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.91Q1 | 4.04 0.50 up from 2016 | 571 | 24% | $4,570 | ||
31European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.90Q1 | 3.61 0.25 down from 2016 | 377 | 42% | $3,200 | ||
32Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 3.53 0.02 down from 2016 | 399 | 54% | $4,000 | ||
33Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 4.11 0.68 up from 2016 | 220 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
34Food and Energy SecurityOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 4.56 1.98 up from 2016 | 42 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
35Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 4.93 0.87 down from 2016 | 662 | 59% | $5,440 | ||
36BMC Plant BiologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 5.41 0.36 up from 2016 | 945 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
37CladisticsWiley · United States | 2.85Q1 | 6.14 2.53 up from 2016 | 117 | 34% | $3,960 | ||
38Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 4.19 0.29 down from 2016 | 537 | 24% | $4,420 | ||
39Mobile DNAOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 7.25 2.43 up from 2016 | 80 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
40Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 2.06 0.24 down from 2016 | 245 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
41Agriculture & Food SecurityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 2.63 0.01 down from 2016 | 74 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
42Land Degradation and DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 3.88 2.47 down from 2016 | 365 | 25% | $5,230 | ||
43Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionsOAAmerican Phytopathological Society · United States | 2.70Q1 | 3.94 0.41 down from 2016 | 323 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
44Biology and Fertility of SoilsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.70Q1 | 4.77 0.62 up from 2016 | 270 | 24% | $4,790 | ||
45Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 4.35 0.52 down from 2016 | 628 | 24% | $4,210 | ||
46Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 5.39 0.33 up from 2016 | 5,146 | 18% | $4,930 | ||
47International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 2.88 0.79 up from 2016 | 75 | 29% | — | ||
48Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 3.48 0.07 down from 2016 | 769 | 23% | $3,680 | ||
49NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 2.39 0.63 up from 2016 | 87 | 97% | $2,500 | ||
50Plant MethodsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 5.84 0.93 up from 2016 | 146 | 100% | $3,090 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science576
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics145
- Food Science142
- Insect Science56
- Animal Science and Zoology52
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Aquatic Science38
- Soil Science37
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
309 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 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,119
- Window papers (baseline)
- 602,980 +11.4% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.563 -9.8% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.