Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Insect Science journal rankings 2020
51 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Insect Science has 51 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Journal of Pest Science, Entomologia Generalis, and Annual Review of Entomology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
51 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Journal of Pest ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.43Q1 | 6.02 1.15 up from 2019 | 337 | 36% | $4,790 | ||
2Entomologia GeneralisE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 2.02Q1 | 4.66 0.85 up from 2019 | 97 | 24% | — | ||
3Annual Review of EntomologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.86Q1 | 17.24 4.77 up from 2019 | 88 | 52% | — | ||
4Biological ControlOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.69Q1 | 3.91 0.55 up from 2019 | 591 | 39% | $3,390 | ||
5Journal of Insects as Food and FeedNetherlands | 1.68Q1 | 3.70 0.04 down from 2019 | 117 | 58% | — | ||
6Journal of Integrated Pest ManagementOAOxford University Press · United States | 1.66Q1 | 3.92 0.92 up from 2019 | 85 | 100% | $1,175 | ||
7BioControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 2.61 0.73 down from 2019 | 193 | 33% | $3,790 | ||
8InsectsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.46Q1 | 3.47 0.51 up from 2019 | 806 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
9Journal of Apicultural ResearchTaylor & Francis | 1.16Q1 | 2.10 0.03 down from 2019 | 277 | 17% | — | ||
10Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataWiley · United Kingdom | 1.10Q1 | 2.41 0.53 up from 2019 | 318 | 41% | $4,430 | ||
11Journal of Chemical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q1 | 2.81 0.38 up from 2019 | 313 | 39% | $3,890 | ||
12Agricultural and Forest EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q1 | 2.49 0.53 up from 2019 | 144 | 24% | $4,410 | ||
13Arthropod-Plant InteractionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.05Q1 | 1.96 0.39 up from 2019 | 247 | 37% | $3,090 | ||
14Environmental EntomologyOxford University Press · United States | 0.99Q2 | 2.52 0.73 up from 2019 | 550 | 38% | $4,328 | ||
15Journal of Applied EntomologyWiley · Germany | 0.98Q2 | 2.29 0.20 up from 2019 | 317 | 25% | $4,780 | ||
16Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest ControlOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 0.98Q2 | 2.74 1.06 up from 2019 | 198 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
17Journal of Invertebrate PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.95Q2 | 2.97 0.70 up from 2019 | 383 | 32% | $3,760 | ||
18Journal of Economic EntomologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 2.47 0.46 up from 2019 | 1,151 | 31% | $4,328 | ||
19Insect ScienceWiley · Australia | 0.90Q2 | 2.41 0.34 up from 2019 | 296 | 25% | $3,400 | ||
20Journal of Insect PhysiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 2.25 0.14 up from 2019 | 415 | 29% | $3,430 | ||
21Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 2.00 0.86 up from 2019 | 188 | 52% | $4,328 | ||
22Journal of Insect ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.83Q2 | 2.31 0.55 up from 2019 | 373 | 100% | $2,170 | ||
23Biocontrol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 1.78 0.37 up from 2019 | 299 | 12% | — | ||
24Neotropical EntomologySpringer Nature · Brazil | 0.69Q2 | 1.31 0.04 down from 2019 | 264 | 30% | $3,090 | ||
25Bulletin of Entomological ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.31 0.07 down from 2019 | 305 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
26Physiological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 1.79 0.47 up from 2019 | 122 | 19% | $3,920 | ||
27PhytoparasiticaSpringer Science+Business Media · Israel | 0.65Q3 | 1.53 0.18 up from 2019 | 203 | 16% | $3,090 | ||
28Applied Entomology and ZoologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.63Q3 | 1.54 0.31 up from 2019 | 196 | 28% | $3,790 | ||
29Entomological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.61Q3 | 1.37 0.33 up from 2019 | 165 | 11% | $3,310 | ||
30Florida EntomologistOAFlorida Entomological Society · United States | 0.58Q3 | 1.32 0.51 up from 2019 | 404 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
31Journal of Asia-Pacific EntomologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.58Q3 | 1.38 0.17 up from 2019 | 570 | 9% | $3,000 | ||
32Current Opinion in Insect ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 5.65 0.65 up from 2019 | 313 | 55% | $4,610 | ||
33Journal of Apicultural ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.47Q3 | 0.98 0.06 down from 2019 | 75 | 100% | $539 | ||
34African EntomologyOAPeter Lang · South Africa | 0.46Q3 | 1.31 0.39 up from 2019 | 183 | 100% | $369 | ||
35Journal of Entomological and Acarological ResearchOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.46Q3 | 1.65 0.86 up from 2019 | 45 | 100% | $269 | ||
36Bee WorldTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.45Q3 | 0.87 0.57 down from 2019 | 107 | 28% | — | ||
37The Canadian EntomologistCambridge University Press · United States | 0.42Q3 | 0.77 0.18 down from 2019 | 221 | 30% | $3,308 | ||
38Advances in EntomologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.42Q3 | 1.29 0.79 up from 2019 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of EntomologyOAPakistan | 0.39Q3 | 0.66 0.17 up from 2019 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
40Molluscan ResearchTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.37Q4 | 1.20 0.67 up from 2019 | 96 | 19% | — | ||
41RediaOAItaly | 0.36Q4 | 0.56 0.37 down from 2019 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
42International Journal of Tropical Insect ScienceSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.36Q4 | 0.79 0.16 down from 2019 | 145 | 11% | $3,290 | ||
43Folia MalacologicaOABogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe · Poland | 0.31Q4 | 0.91 0.36 up from 2019 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Entomological ScienceGeorgia Entomological Society · United States | 0.31Q4 | 0.67 0.17 up from 2019 | 156 | 5% | — | ||
45Revista Colombiana de EntomologíaColombia | 0.29Q4 | 0.56 0.12 up from 2019 | 119 | 87% | — | ||
46Southwestern EntomologistSociety of Southwestern Entomologists · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.49 0.04 down from 2019 | 374 | 2% | — | ||
47Entomological NewsAmerican Entomological Society · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.32 0.09 down from 2019 | 164 | 0% | — | ||
48International Journal of Industrial EntomologyOASouth Korea | 0.12Q4 | 0.26 0.07 up from 2019 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
49Acta Entomologica SinicaPublisher not listed | 0.12Q4 | 0.19 0.05 down from 2019 | 172 | 0% | — | ||
50Journal of Veterinary Science & TechnologyOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.11Q4 | 0.27 0.03 up from 2019 | 437 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Insect Science highlighted.
- Plant Science577
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics152
- Food Science139
- Animal Science and Zoology58
- Insect Science51
- Soil Science42
- Aquatic Science39
- Agronomy and Crop Science38
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Insect Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 51
- Window papers (baseline)
- 35,850 +8.1% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.66 +11.8% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.