Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Insect Science journal rankings 2018
54 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Insect Science has 54 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2017 to 0.65, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Journal of Pest Science, Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, and BioControl.
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)
54 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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1Journal of Pest ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.55Q1 | 4.89 0.23 down from 2017 | 293 | 30% | $4,790 | ||
2Journal of Insects as Food and FeedNetherlands | 2.13Q1 | 2.71 0.48 down from 2017 | 104 | 51% | — | ||
3BioControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 3.52 0.97 up from 2017 | 203 | 29% | $3,790 | ||
4InsectsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.85Q1 | 3.00 0.40 up from 2017 | 267 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
5Biological ControlOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.69Q1 | 3.11 0.20 up from 2017 | 478 | 41% | $3,390 | ||
6Journal of Integrated Pest ManagementOAOxford University Press · United States | 1.68Q1 | 3.11 0.69 up from 2017 | 77 | 100% | $1,175 | ||
7Annual Review of EntomologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.48Q1 | 10.40 2.41 down from 2017 | 85 | 52% | — | ||
8Journal of Chemical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 2.79 0.01 up from 2017 | 352 | 27% | $3,890 | ||
9Journal of Insect PhysiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 2.60 0.29 down from 2017 | 450 | 35% | $3,430 | ||
10Journal of Invertebrate PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.21Q1 | 2.34 0.68 down from 2017 | 407 | 31% | $3,760 | ||
11Entomologia GeneralisE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 1.15Q1 | 2.26 0.42 up from 2017 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
12Arthropod-Plant InteractionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.10Q1 | 1.72 0.16 down from 2017 | 238 | 28% | $3,090 | ||
13Journal of Apicultural ResearchTaylor & Francis | 1.08Q1 | 2.14 0.94 up from 2017 | 227 | 38% | — | ||
14Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataWiley · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 2.01 0.28 up from 2017 | 362 | 37% | $4,430 | ||
15Bulletin of Entomological ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 1.62no change | 357 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
16Journal of Applied EntomologyWiley · Germany | 0.99Q2 | 1.78 0.17 up from 2017 | 270 | 29% | $4,780 | ||
17SpringerPlusOASpringer International Publishing · Switzerland | 0.98Q2 | 2.25 0.54 up from 2017 | 3,060 | — | — | ||
18Agricultural and Forest EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.71 0.02 up from 2017 | 166 | 31% | $4,410 | ||
19Environmental EntomologyOxford University Press · United States | 0.96Q2 | 1.60 0.18 down from 2017 | 626 | 20% | $4,328 | ||
20Journal of Economic EntomologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.95 0.11 down from 2017 | 1,143 | 20% | $4,328 | ||
21Journal of Insect ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.94Q2 | 2.03 0.37 up from 2017 | 401 | 100% | $2,170 | ||
22Insect ScienceWiley · Australia | 0.92Q2 | 2.17 0.76 up from 2017 | 341 | 41% | $3,400 | ||
23Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.40 0.10 down from 2017 | 317 | 25% | $4,328 | ||
24PhytoparasiticaSpringer Science+Business Media · Israel | 0.80Q2 | 1.25 0.06 down from 2017 | 170 | 15% | $3,090 | ||
25Psyche A Journal of EntomologyOACambridge Entomological Club · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 1.39 0.56 up from 2017 | 36 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
26Journal of Apicultural ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.71Q2 | 1.04 0.06 down from 2017 | 84 | 100% | $539 | ||
27Biocontrol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.65Q2 | 1.29 0.12 up from 2017 | 319 | 11% | — | ||
28Neotropical EntomologySpringer Nature · Brazil | 0.65Q3 | 1.24 0.21 up from 2017 | 309 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
29International Journal of Tropical Insect ScienceSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.97 0.25 up from 2017 | 81 | 15% | $3,290 | ||
30The Canadian EntomologistCambridge University Press · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.99 0.11 up from 2017 | 227 | 30% | $3,308 | ||
31Journal of Asia-Pacific EntomologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.58Q3 | 1.27 0.23 up from 2017 | 500 | 14% | $3,000 | ||
32Physiological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 0.94 0.05 down from 2017 | 173 | 17% | $3,920 | ||
33Current Opinion in Insect ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.52Q3 | 3.91 0.76 down from 2017 | 315 | 40% | $4,610 | ||
34Florida EntomologistOAFlorida Entomological Society · United States | 0.51Q3 | 0.87 0.08 down from 2017 | 588 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
35Applied Entomology and ZoologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.49Q3 | 0.90 0.08 up from 2017 | 282 | 28% | $3,790 | ||
36Molluscan ResearchTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.47Q3 | 0.96 0.10 up from 2017 | 95 | 6% | — | ||
37Journal of Agricultural and Urban EntomologyUnited States | 0.47Q3 | 1.00 0.05 up from 2017 | 32 | 0% | — | ||
38Advances in EntomologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.43 0.05 down from 2017 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of Entomological ScienceGeorgia Entomological Society · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.61 0.01 down from 2017 | 125 | 0% | — | ||
40African EntomologyOAPeter Lang · South Africa | 0.35Q3 | 0.61 0.05 up from 2017 | 193 | 100% | $369 | ||
41Journal of Entomological and Acarological ResearchOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.33Q3 | 0.67 0.39 up from 2017 | 71 | 100% | $269 | ||
42Journal of EntomologyOAPakistan | 0.30Q4 | 0.66 0.40 up from 2017 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
43Entomological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.30Q4 | 0.64 0.11 up from 2017 | 165 | 18% | $3,310 | ||
44RediaOAItaly | 0.24Q4 | 0.45 0.07 up from 2017 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
45Southwestern EntomologistSociety of Southwestern Entomologists · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.56 0.05 up from 2017 | 340 | 5% | — | ||
46Entomological NewsAmerican Entomological Society · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.30 0.02 down from 2017 | 162 | 0% | — | ||
47Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest ControlOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 0.19Q4 | 0.49 0.20 up from 2017 | 172 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
48Folia MalacologicaOABogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe · Poland | 0.17Q4 | 0.32 0.06 up from 2017 | 149 | 100% | — | ||
49Bee WorldTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.16Q4 | 0.33 0.25 up from 2017 | 98 | 42% | — | ||
50Journal of Veterinary Science & TechnologyOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.16Q4 | 0.21 0.07 down from 2017 | 655 | 6% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Insect Science 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.
11 additional Insect Science 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
- 54
- Window papers (baseline)
- 33,791 +9.7% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.651 +3.1% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 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.