Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2018
32 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 32 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.14 on 2017 to 0.94, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.58. The top three are The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Rural Studies, and Journal of Agrarian Change.
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 of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
32 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 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% | — | ||
2Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 4.33 0.74 up from 2017 | 489 | 44% | $4,090 | ||
3Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 2.73 0.52 up from 2017 | 115 | 22% | $3,820 | ||
4Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.62Q1 | 2.54 0.09 down from 2017 | 115 | 31% | $3,920 | ||
5Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 5.51 1.97 up from 2017 | 446 | 57% | $4,000 | ||
6Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 2.42 0.36 up from 2017 | 161 | 44% | $4,150 | ||
7The Journal of Agricultural Education and ExtensionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 1.40 0.14 down from 2017 | 74 | 56% | — | ||
8International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 3.08 0.20 up from 2017 | 83 | 38% | — | ||
9Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 2.53Q2 | 1.97 0.09 down from 2017 | 232 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
10Agriculture & Food SecurityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.15Q2 | 2.19 0.43 down from 2017 | 127 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
11Bio-based and Applied EconomicsOAFirenze University Press · Italy | 2.08Q2 | 1.70 0.48 up from 2017 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
12Agroecology and Sustainable Food SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.34Q2 | 1.64 0.13 up from 2017 | 165 | 29% | — | ||
13Studies in Agricultural EconomicsOAResearch Institute of Agricultural Economics · Hungary | 1.33Q2 | 1.28 0.18 up from 2017 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
14Culture Agriculture Food and EnvironmentWiley · United States | 1.08Q2 | 1.10 0.42 up from 2017 | 55 | 29% | $3,400 | ||
15Outlook on AgricultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.39 0.19 up from 2017 | 107 | 26% | $3,650 | ||
16European CountrysideOADe Gruyter Open · Czechia | 0.99Q2 | 0.94 0.09 up from 2017 | 91 | 100% | $129 | ||
17Journal of Agricultural EducationOAAmerican Association for Agricultural Education · United States | 0.89Q3 | 0.56 0.02 up from 2017 | 201 | 100% | — | ||
18Agrarian South Journal of Political Economy A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARESSAGE Publishing · India | 0.89Q3 | 0.55 0.18 up from 2017 | 55 | 61% | $3,400 | ||
19EuroChoicesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 1.13 0.56 up from 2017 | 93 | 42% | $3,470 | ||
20German Journal of Agricultural EconomicsOADeutscher Fachverlag · Germany | 0.54Q3 | 0.38 0.08 up from 2017 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
21Journal of Agricultural & Food InformationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.47 0.01 down from 2017 | 104 | 22% | — | ||
22Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable DevelopmentOADe Gruyter Open · Slovakia | 0.51Q3 | 0.64 0.45 up from 2017 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
23Natural sciences educationWiley · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.40 0.04 up from 2017 | 79 | 48% | $1,580 | ||
24Agricultural Economics Research ReviewAgricultural Economics Research Association · India | 0.43Q3 | 0.28 0.02 up from 2017 | 158 | 80% | — | ||
25Journal of Applied CommunicationsOANew Prairie Press · United States | 0.33Q4 | 0.48 0.02 up from 2017 | 88 | 100% | — | ||
26Journal of Human Sciences and ExtensionOAMississippi State University · United States | 0.30Q4 | 0.33 0.06 down from 2017 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
27Journal of International Agricultural and Extension EducationOANew Prairie Press · United States | 0.28Q4 | 0.24 0.01 up from 2017 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
28International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and InformaticsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.24Q4 | 0.19 0.13 down from 2017 | 88 | 8% | — | ||
29Journal of ExtensionOAClemson University · United States | 0.24Q4 | 0.38 0.02 down from 2017 | 516 | 98% | — | ||
30Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural ScienceAgricultural Academy of Bulgaria · Bulgaria | 0.24Q4 | 0.23 0.07 up from 2017 | 115 | 0% | — | ||
31Revista Fitotecnia MexicanaOAMexican Society of Phytogenetics · Mexico | 0.15Q4 | 0.11 0.12 down from 2017 | 163 | 100% | — | ||
32School of Information Student Research JournalOASJSU Scholarworks · United States | 0.07Q4 | 0.17 0.08 up from 2017 | 33 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with General Agricultural and Biological Sciences highlighted.
- 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.
7 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 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
- 32
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,117 +36.5% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.9391 +10.1% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 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.