Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2017
33 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 33 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.27 on 2016 to 0.80, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.66. The top three are The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Rural Studies, and Journal of Agricultural Economics.
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)
33 ranked journals
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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% | — | ||
2Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.37Q1 | 3.59 0.09 up from 2016 | 390 | 47% | $4,090 | ||
3Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 2.06 0.31 up from 2016 | 164 | 44% | $4,150 | ||
4Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.22Q1 | 2.62 0.36 up from 2016 | 112 | 56% | $3,920 | ||
5Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 2.21 0.39 down from 2016 | 111 | 31% | $3,820 | ||
6Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 3.53 0.02 down from 2016 | 399 | 54% | $4,000 | ||
7Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 2.06 0.24 down from 2016 | 245 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
8Agriculture & Food SecurityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 2.63 0.01 down from 2016 | 74 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
9International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 2.88 0.79 up from 2016 | 75 | 29% | — | ||
10The Journal of Agricultural Education and ExtensionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.41Q2 | 1.54 0.31 up from 2016 | 82 | 56% | — | ||
11European CountrysideOADe Gruyter Open · Czechia | 1.53Q2 | 0.84 0.12 up from 2016 | 62 | 100% | $129 | ||
12Agroecology and Sustainable Food SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.50Q2 | 1.52 0.08 up from 2016 | 141 | 37% | — | ||
13Studies in Agricultural EconomicsOAResearch Institute of Agricultural Economics · Hungary | 1.45Q2 | 1.11 0.73 up from 2016 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
14Outlook on AgricultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.20 0.42 up from 2016 | 109 | 38% | $3,650 | ||
15Bio-based and Applied EconomicsOAFirenze University Press · Italy | 0.97Q2 | 1.23 0.10 up from 2016 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
16Journal of Agricultural EducationOAAmerican Association for Agricultural Education · United States | 0.83Q2 | 0.54 0.14 up from 2016 | 191 | 100% | — | ||
17Culture Agriculture Food and EnvironmentWiley · United States | 0.80Q2 | 0.69 0.11 down from 2016 | 50 | 22% | $3,400 | ||
18Journal of International Agricultural and Extension EducationOANew Prairie Press · United States | 0.73Q3 | 0.23 0.50 down from 2016 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
19Agrarian South Journal of Political Economy A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARESSAGE Publishing · India | 0.66Q3 | 0.37 0.06 up from 2016 | 53 | 8% | $3,400 | ||
20EuroChoicesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.57 0.19 up from 2016 | 101 | 21% | $3,470 | ||
21Journal of Agricultural & Food InformationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.48 0.23 up from 2016 | 91 | 9% | — | ||
22Journal of Human Sciences and ExtensionOAMississippi State University · United States | 0.51Q3 | 0.40 0.15 up from 2016 | 100 | 100% | — | ||
23Agricultural Economics Research ReviewAgricultural Economics Research Association · India | 0.48Q3 | 0.26 0.01 up from 2016 | 156 | 80% | — | ||
24German Journal of Agricultural EconomicsOADeutscher Fachverlag · Germany | 0.38Q3 | 0.31 0.23 down from 2016 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
25School of Information Student Research JournalOASJSU Scholarworks · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.08 0.22 down from 2016 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
26Journal of ExtensionOAClemson University · United States | 0.34Q4 | 0.40 0.04 down from 2016 | 562 | 99% | — | ||
27International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and InformaticsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.33Q4 | 0.32 0.17 up from 2016 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
28Natural sciences educationWiley · United States | 0.28Q4 | 0.35 0.04 up from 2016 | 79 | 35% | $1,580 | ||
29Revista Fitotecnia MexicanaOAMexican Society of Phytogenetics · Mexico | 0.22Q4 | 0.23 0.02 up from 2016 | 155 | 100% | — | ||
30Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural ScienceAgricultural Academy of Bulgaria · Bulgaria | 0.20Q4 | 0.15 0.10 down from 2016 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
31Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable DevelopmentOADe Gruyter Open · Slovakia | 0.17Q4 | 0.19 0.04 down from 2016 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Applied CommunicationsOANew Prairie Press · United States | 0.16Q4 | 0.46 0.04 down from 2016 | 89 | 100% | — | ||
33Journal of developments in sustainable agricultureOAUniversity of Tsukuba · Japan | 0.14Q4 | 0.11 0.07 down from 2016 | 30 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 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.
6 additional General 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
- 33
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,869 +40.2% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.798 -6.4% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 30 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 35 | 33 | 33 | 33 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,632 | 8,998 | 9,770 | 10,457 | 10,035 | 10,312 | 11,035 | 12,024 | 13,213 | 14,835 | 17,232 | 19,807 | 21,937 | 24,350 | 27,020 | 30,850 | 33,992 | 37,869 | 42,117 | 48,034 | 53,657 | 60,120 | 64,001 | 66,228 | 69,137 | 76,919 | |
| Median OJR | 0.460 | 0.456 | 0.55 | 0.73 | 0.67 | 0.34 | 0.61 | 0.86 | 0.71 | 0.9394 | 0.40 | 0.83 | 0.68 | 0.796 | 0.852 | 0.853 | 1.07 | 0.798 | 0.9391 | 0.88 | 0.96 | 0.91 | 0.72 | 0.82 | 1.04 | 0.89 |
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.