Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Insect Science journal rankings 2017
56 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Insect Science has 56 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.59, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.06. The top three are Journal of Pest Science, Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, and Journal of Integrated Pest Management.
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)
56 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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1Journal of Pest ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.53Q1 | 5.12 1.21 up from 2016 | 271 | 33% | $4,790 | ||
2Journal of Insects as Food and FeedNetherlands | 1.90Q1 | 3.19 1.07 down from 2016 | 74 | 53% | — | ||
3Journal of Integrated Pest ManagementOAOxford University Press · United States | 1.82Q1 | 2.42 0.58 down from 2016 | 56 | 100% | $1,175 | ||
4Annual Review of EntomologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.69Q1 | 12.80 1.23 down from 2016 | 81 | 53% | — | ||
5Biological ControlOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.66Q1 | 2.92 0.22 up from 2016 | 468 | 34% | $3,390 | ||
6BioControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 2.55 0.18 up from 2016 | 214 | 29% | $3,790 | ||
7Journal of Chemical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 2.78 0.19 up from 2016 | 412 | 38% | $3,890 | ||
8InsectsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.43Q1 | 2.60 0.21 up from 2016 | 200 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
9Arthropod-Plant InteractionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 1.88 0.11 down from 2016 | 192 | 28% | $3,090 | ||
10Journal of Insect PhysiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 2.88 0.05 up from 2016 | 415 | 27% | $3,430 | ||
11Journal of Invertebrate PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.26Q1 | 3.02 0.01 down from 2016 | 386 | 34% | $3,760 | ||
12Journal of Economic EntomologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.08Q1 | 2.05 0.03 down from 2016 | 1,066 | 16% | $4,328 | ||
13Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q1 | 1.74 0.01 up from 2016 | 361 | 22% | $4,430 | ||
14Environmental EntomologyOxford University Press · United States | 1.06Q1 | 1.79 0.04 up from 2016 | 616 | 14% | $4,328 | ||
15Agricultural and Forest EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 1.69 0.24 down from 2016 | 158 | 20% | $4,410 | ||
16Bulletin of Entomological ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.62 0.07 down from 2016 | 319 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
17SpringerPlusOASpringer International Publishing · Switzerland | 0.97Q2 | 1.72 0.01 up from 2016 | 3,837 | 100% | — | ||
18Entomologia GeneralisE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.95Q2 | 1.83 1.31 up from 2016 | 44 | 5% | — | ||
19Journal of Applied EntomologyWiley · Germany | 0.92Q2 | 1.61 0.09 down from 2016 | 255 | 12% | $4,780 | ||
20Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 1.50 0.17 up from 2016 | 398 | 17% | $4,328 | ||
21Journal of Apicultural ResearchTaylor & Francis | 0.88Q2 | 1.20 0.56 down from 2016 | 206 | 24% | — | ||
22Insect ScienceWiley · Australia | 0.82Q2 | 1.41 0.03 down from 2016 | 311 | 31% | $3,400 | ||
23PhytoparasiticaSpringer Science+Business Media · Israel | 0.81Q2 | 1.31 0.08 up from 2016 | 170 | 7% | $3,090 | ||
24Journal of Insect ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.70Q2 | 1.66 0.59 up from 2016 | 684 | 100% | $2,170 | ||
25Journal of Apicultural ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.70Q2 | 1.10 0.04 up from 2016 | 88 | 100% | $539 | ||
26Neotropical EntomologySpringer Nature · Brazil | 0.64Q2 | 1.03 0.07 up from 2016 | 285 | 18% | $3,090 | ||
27Biocontrol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.63Q2 | 1.17 0.08 up from 2016 | 343 | 16% | — | ||
28Physiological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.61Q2 | 0.99 0.45 down from 2016 | 163 | 17% | $3,920 | ||
29Journal of Asia-Pacific EntomologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 1.04 0.26 down from 2016 | 432 | 9% | $3,000 | ||
30Florida EntomologistOAFlorida Entomological Society · United States | 0.56Q3 | 0.95 0.09 up from 2016 | 724 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
31The Canadian EntomologistCambridge University Press · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.88 0.23 down from 2016 | 243 | 36% | $3,308 | ||
32Current Opinion in Insect ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.53Q3 | 4.67 0.17 up from 2016 | 287 | 42% | $4,610 | ||
33Applied Entomology and ZoologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.52Q3 | 0.82 0.11 down from 2016 | 281 | 19% | $3,790 | ||
34Psyche A Journal of EntomologyOACambridge Entomological Club · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.83 0.49 up from 2016 | 56 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
35Molluscan ResearchTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.47Q3 | 0.86 0.30 up from 2016 | 89 | 13% | — | ||
36African EntomologyOAPeter Lang · South Africa | 0.44Q3 | 0.56 0.40 down from 2016 | 229 | 100% | $369 | ||
37International Journal of Tropical Insect ScienceSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.72 0.17 down from 2016 | 109 | 23% | $3,290 | ||
38Advances in Enzyme ResearchOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.92 0.28 up from 2016 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
39Advances in EntomologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.48 0.56 down from 2016 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal of Entomological ScienceGeorgia Entomological Society · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.62 0.04 up from 2016 | 117 | 0% | — | ||
41Entomological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.30Q3 | 0.53 0.07 down from 2016 | 140 | 8% | $3,310 | ||
42RediaOAItaly | 0.28Q3 | 0.39no 2016 value | 31 | 92% | — | — | |
43Journal of EntomologyOAPakistan | 0.26Q4 | 0.26 0.09 down from 2016 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Entomological and Acarological ResearchOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.24Q4 | 0.29 0.21 down from 2016 | 71 | 100% | $269 | ||
45International Journal of Insect ScienceOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.24Q4 | 0.41 0.04 down from 2016 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
46Southwestern EntomologistSociety of Southwestern Entomologists · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.52 0.13 down from 2016 | 297 | 4% | — | ||
47Redia-Giornale Di ZoologiaCoppini | 0.19Q4 | 0.35 0.19 down from 2016 | 38 | — | — | ||
48Journal of Veterinary Science & TechnologyOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.27 0.04 up from 2016 | 518 | 3% | — | ||
49Japanese Journal of Applied Entomology and ZoologyOAJapanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology · Japan | 0.17Q4 | 0.22 0.13 down from 2016 | 131 | 100% | — | ||
50Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest ControlOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 0.15Q4 | 0.29 0.13 up from 2016 | 249 | 0% | $2,190 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Insect 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.
10 additional Insect 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
- 56
- Window papers (baseline)
- 33,175 +12.9% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.59 -24.4% 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 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 42 | 42 | 44 | 45 | 44 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 48 | 48 | 53 | 52 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 54 | 53 | 51 | 51 | 49 | 49 | 48 | 49 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 12,185 | 13,965 | 14,821 | 15,813 | 15,398 | 16,451 | 17,731 | 19,230 | 20,335 | 21,674 | 23,818 | 25,949 | 27,378 | 28,190 | 29,372 | 30,792 | 31,557 | 33,175 | 33,791 | 35,204 | 35,850 | 38,413 | 40,647 | 42,274 | 42,994 | 44,734 | |
| Median OJR | 0.48 | 0.463 | 0.398 | 0.49 | 0.395 | 0.401 | 0.462 | 0.45 | 0.58 | 0.64 | 0.629 | 0.6804 | 0.71 | 0.6799 | 0.78 | 0.631 | 0.62 | 0.59 | 0.651 | 0.645 | 0.66 | 0.70 | 0.75 | 0.69 | 0.650 | 0.682 |
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.