Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2018
1,133 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 1,133 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.55, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.10. The top three are The Journal of Peasant Studies, Ecology Letters, and Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.90Q1 | 4.56 0.50 up from 2017 | 266 | 28% | — | ||
2Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 6.20Q1 | 9.88 0.40 down from 2017 | 452 | 47% | $5,300 | ||
3Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 5.55Q1 | 9.93 0.16 up from 2017 | 178 | 29% | $5,000 | ||
4Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.20Q1 | 9.50 0.89 up from 2017 | 553 | 24% | $5,440 | ||
5Microbial Ecology in Health and DiseaseTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 4.77 6.08 down from 2017 | 61 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
6Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 4.33 0.74 up from 2017 | 489 | 44% | $4,090 | ||
7Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 2.73 0.52 up from 2017 | 115 | 22% | $3,820 | ||
8Food and Energy SecurityOAWiley · United Kingdom | 4.14Q1 | 5.54 0.98 up from 2017 | 55 | 100% | $4,190 | ||
9Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 4.08Q1 | 5.69 0.15 down from 2017 | 197 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
10New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 7.22 0.05 up from 2017 | 1,615 | 67% | $5,790 | ||
11The Plant CellOxford University Press · United States | 3.78Q1 | 7.69 0.31 down from 2017 | 736 | 99% | $4,934 | ||
12Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.62Q1 | 2.54 0.09 down from 2017 | 115 | 31% | $3,920 | ||
13Nature PlantsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 7.48 1.12 up from 2017 | 631 | 27% | $12,690 | ||
14Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 3.42Q1 | 6.48 0.06 down from 2017 | 583 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
15Mobile DNAOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 4.19 3.06 down from 2017 | 70 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
16Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 6.28 0.52 up from 2017 | 960 | 44% | $4,950 | ||
17Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 5.51 1.97 up from 2017 | 446 | 57% | $4,000 | ||
18CladisticsWiley · United States | 3.27Q1 | 6.92 0.79 up from 2017 | 120 | 39% | $3,960 | ||
19Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 2.42 0.36 up from 2017 | 161 | 44% | $4,150 | ||
20SOILOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.23Q1 | 5.47 0.87 down from 2017 | 117 | 100% | $1,110 | ||
21GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 5.13 0.24 up from 2017 | 234 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
22Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 6.92 0.20 down from 2017 | 524 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
23Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.19Q1 | 4.83 0.79 up from 2017 | 550 | 24% | $4,570 | ||
24Functional EcologyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 5.19 0.03 down from 2017 | 599 | 58% | $3,000 | ||
25Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 5.50 0.36 down from 2017 | 1,698 | 99% | — | ||
26International Soil and Water Conservation ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 3.07Q1 | 4.31 0.83 up from 2017 | 114 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
27Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 6.35 0.97 up from 2017 | 1,377 | 24% | $4,990 | ||
28PLANT PHYSIOLOGYOxford University Press · United States | 2.99Q1 | 6.58 0.38 up from 2017 | 1,793 | 94% | $3,851 | ||
29Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 6.11 1.95 up from 2017 | 44 | 44% | — | ||
30Journal of Experimental BotanyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 5.31 0.46 down from 2017 | 1,632 | 91% | $4,341 | ||
31Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 4.71 0.52 up from 2017 | 560 | 45% | $4,420 | ||
32The Plant GenomeOACrop Science Society of America · United States | 2.88Q1 | 5.37 0.49 up from 2017 | 210 | 100% | $3,140 | ||
33The Journal of Agricultural Education and ExtensionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 1.40 0.14 down from 2017 | 74 | 56% | — | ||
34NFS JournalOAElsevier BV · Germany | 2.87Q1 | 5.62 1.74 up from 2017 | 30 | 100% | $2,800 | ||
35Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 5.56 0.63 up from 2017 | 647 | 79% | $5,440 | ||
36The Plant JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 6.48 0.25 up from 2017 | 947 | 66% | $5,450 | ||
37Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 4.41 0.18 up from 2017 | 213 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
38PlantsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.82Q1 | 3.90 0.57 down from 2017 | 145 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
39Biology and Fertility of SoilsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.79Q1 | 5.31 0.54 up from 2017 | 270 | 27% | $4,790 | ||
40Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.78Q1 | 3.85 1.91 down from 2017 | 61 | 18% | $3,090 | ||
41Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.76Q1 | 4.09 0.62 up from 2017 | 851 | 25% | $3,680 | ||
42Reviews in AquacultureWiley · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 5.56 2.01 up from 2017 | 106 | 32% | $4,480 | ||
43European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.73Q1 | 3.91 0.30 up from 2017 | 403 | 33% | $3,200 | ||
44Horticulture ResearchOANature Portfolio · China | 2.73Q1 | 4.75 0.50 up from 2017 | 109 | 100% | $2,960 | ||
45Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.69Q1 | 4.44 0.30 up from 2017 | 1,249 | 39% | $4,190 | ||
46Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 5.69 0.29 up from 2017 | 5,186 | 22% | $4,930 | ||
47Food MicrobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 4.39 0.04 up from 2017 | 599 | 39% | $4,210 | ||
48Frontiers in Plant ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.60Q1 | 5.26 0.31 up from 2017 | 5,480 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
49Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 4.78 0.66 up from 2017 | 643 | 33% | $4,470 | ||
50International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 3.08 0.20 up from 2017 | 83 | 38% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science571
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics148
- Food Science146
- Animal Science and Zoology59
- Insect Science54
- Aquatic Science44
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Soil Science39
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences32
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
294 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 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,133
- Window papers (baseline)
- 613,440 +7.2% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.55 -5.5% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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 | 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.