Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Agronomy and Crop Science journal rankings 2017
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Agronomy and Crop Science has 39 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.65, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.17. The top three are GCB Bioenergy, Animal Feed Science and Technology, and Journal of Dairy Science.
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 of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
39 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 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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1GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 4.88 0.60 up from 2016 | 285 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
2Animal Feed Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 2.68 0.20 up from 2016 | 676 | 31% | $3,250 | ||
3Journal of Dairy ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.86Q1 | 3.34 0.39 up from 2016 | 2,673 | 80% | $3,500 | ||
4Transboundary and Emerging DiseasesWiley · Germany | 1.82Q1 | 3.47 0.56 up from 2016 | 374 | 79% | $2,710 | ||
5Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 1.53Q1 | 1.60 0.03 down from 2016 | 127 | 5% | $3,000 | ||
6Grass and Forage ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 1.53 0.03 down from 2016 | 162 | 21% | $4,780 | ||
7Preventive Veterinary MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 2.42 0.11 up from 2016 | 664 | 44% | $3,280 | ||
8Domestic Animal EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.23Q1 | 2.17 0.35 up from 2016 | 194 | 27% | $3,740 | ||
9Scientific and Technical Review (World Organisation for Animal Health)World Organisation for Animal Health | 1.22Q1 | 1.41 0.37 down from 2016 | 202 | 12% | — | ||
10Journal of Dairy ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 1.35 0.26 down from 2016 | 226 | 43% | $3,090 | ||
11The Journal of Agricultural ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.25 0.02 up from 2016 | 347 | 44% | $3,550 | ||
12Irish Veterinary JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 1.44 0.44 up from 2016 | 75 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
13Veterinary Medicine InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.44 0.08 up from 2016 | 107 | 100% | $950 | ||
14Small Ruminant ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.89Q2 | 1.26 0.04 up from 2016 | 735 | 26% | $2,300 | ||
15Animal Production ScienceCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.87Q2 | 1.13 0.05 down from 2016 | 1,036 | 18% | — | ||
16Animal Science JournalWiley · Japan | 0.86Q2 | 1.21 0.05 down from 2016 | 557 | 13% | $4,000 | ||
17New Zealand Journal of Agricultural ResearchTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.85Q2 | 1.34 0.17 down from 2016 | 106 | 85% | — | ||
18Journal of Veterinary MedicineHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 1.63 0.60 up from 2016 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
19Tropical Animal Health and ProductionSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.29 0.17 up from 2016 | 680 | 21% | $4,090 | ||
20Veterinary WorldOAVeterinary World · India | 0.65Q2 | 1.18 0.38 up from 2016 | 729 | 100% | $600 | ||
21Grassland ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.95 0.19 up from 2016 | 103 | 12% | $2,970 | ||
22Australian Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.94 0.05 up from 2016 | 290 | 14% | $3,400 | ||
23Journal of MaterialsHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 0.62 0.70 down from 2016 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
24The Professional Animal ScientistElsevier BV · United States | 0.51Q3 | 0.60 0.09 down from 2016 | 254 | 100% | — | ||
25Veterinary SciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.45Q3 | 0.87 0.11 down from 2016 | 79 | 100% | $2,534 | ||
26TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCESOAScientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) · Türkiye | 0.44Q3 | 0.66 0.01 up from 2016 | 315 | 44% | — | ||
27Animal ReproductionOAColégio Brasileiro de Patologia Animal (CBPA) · Brazil | 0.39Q3 | 0.63 0.22 up from 2016 | 142 | 100% | $450 | ||
28Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Ireland | 0.39Q3 | 0.57 0.06 down from 2016 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
29American Journal of Animal and Veterinary SciencesOAUnited Arab Emirates | 0.38Q3 | 0.50 0.03 down from 2016 | 93 | 100% | — | ||
30Open Journal of Veterinary MedicineOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.65 0.08 up from 2016 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.37Q4 | 0.50 0.27 up from 2016 | 34 | 100% | — | |||
32Journal of Veterinary ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.36Q4 | 0.69 0.10 up from 2016 | 258 | 100% | — | ||
33Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal ResearchOANetwork for the Veterinarians of Bangladesh · Bangladesh | 0.35Q4 | 0.50 0.19 down from 2016 | 183 | 100% | $250 | ||
34Majallah-i taḥqīqāt-i dāmpizishkī-i īrānShiraz University · Iran | 0.34Q4 | —no 2016 value | 53 | — | — | ||
35Iranian journal of applied animal scienceOAIslamic Azad University of Rasht · Iran | 0.24Q4 | 0.27 0.04 down from 2016 | 296 | 100% | — | ||
36Advances in Animal BiosciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.20Q4 | 0.27 0.02 down from 2016 | 81 | 16% | — | ||
37The Indian Journal of Animal SciencesOAIndian Council of Agricultural Research · India | 0.13Q4 | 0.27no change | 874 | 100% | — | ||
38Veterinarski arhivOAUniversity of Zagreb · Croatia | 0.13Q4 | 0.15 0.01 up from 2016 | 31 | 87% | — | ||
39The Bovine PractitionerOAAmerican Association of Bovine Practitioners · United States | 0.10Q4 | 0.20no change | 56 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Agronomy and Crop Science highlighted.
- 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.
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 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
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,062 +16.0% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.65 +1.7% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 |
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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.