Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Field ranking · 2021
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2021
1,117 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 1,117 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.17. The top three are Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, The Journal of Peasant Studies, and Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 5.97Q1 | 17.71 2.68 up from 2020 | 349 | 33% | $5,000 | ||
2The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.65Q1 | 6.57 2.73 up from 2020 | 227 | 44% | — | ||
3Artificial Intelligence in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · China | 5.44Q1 | 14.54 4.50 up from 2020 | 48 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
4Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.43Q1 | 17.76 3.41 up from 2020 | 919 | 29% | $5,440 | ||
5NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.06Q1 | 12.13 4.56 up from 2020 | 78 | — | $2,500 | ||
6Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 4.29Q1 | 14.56 4.18 up from 2020 | 497 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
7Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 11.39 2.06 up from 2020 | 580 | 58% | $5,300 | ||
8Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.89Q1 | 8.36 0.38 up from 2020 | 170 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
9Nature PlantsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.62Q1 | 11.54 1.96 up from 2020 | 654 | 45% | $12,690 | ||
10Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 5.70 0.72 up from 2020 | 661 | 59% | $4,090 | ||
11Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.44Q1 | 4.53 1.27 up from 2020 | 114 | 57% | $3,920 | ||
12Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 3.92 0.83 up from 2020 | 109 | 50% | $3,820 | ||
13Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 7.19 1.12 up from 2020 | 548 | 65% | $4,000 | ||
14Biotechnology Research and InnovationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.27Q1 | 13.39 6.68 up from 2020 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
15Reviews in AquacultureWiley · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 10.63 3.05 up from 2020 | 270 | 47% | $4,480 | ||
16Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.25Q1 | 8.52 0.91 up from 2020 | 1,653 | 28% | $3,870 | ||
17New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 9.37 0.65 up from 2020 | 2,099 | 63% | $5,790 | ||
18Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 10.58 2.41 up from 2020 | 620 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
19Plant PhenomicsOAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · China | 3.11Q1 | 9.13 1.13 up from 2020 | 55 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
20Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 8.54 0.61 up from 2020 | 949 | 44% | $4,950 | ||
20Plant CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.10Q1 | 9.66 4.29 up from 2020 | 82 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
22International Soil and Water Conservation ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 3.09Q1 | 7.67 0.21 up from 2020 | 141 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
23Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 9.95 1.10 up from 2020 | 2,282 | 23% | $4,990 | ||
24Agriculture & Food SecurityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 4.54 0.43 up from 2020 | 118 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
25Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.00Q1 | 11.02 0.24 up from 2020 | 819 | 16% | — | ||
26SOILOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.89Q1 | 9.24 1.50 up from 2020 | 87 | 100% | $1,110 | ||
27Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.89Q1 | 6.52 0.90 up from 2020 | 678 | 39% | $3,680 | ||
28Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 6.14 1.25 down from 2020 | 223 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
29Information Processing in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 8.45 2.60 up from 2020 | 172 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
30Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.81Q1 | 32.56 3.41 up from 2020 | 88 | 67% | — | ||
31European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 5.91 0.36 up from 2020 | 377 | 43% | $3,200 | ||
32Journal of Integrative Plant BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 8.81 2.47 up from 2020 | 350 | 38% | $3,000 | ||
33NFS JournalOAElsevier BV · Germany | 2.75Q1 | 8.50 3.35 up from 2020 | 46 | 100% | $2,800 | ||
34Animal nutritionOAKeAi · China | 2.75Q1 | 5.84 0.31 down from 2020 | 183 | 100% | $1,462 | ||
35Current Research in Food ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.75Q1 | 7.18 3.54 up from 2020 | 55 | 100% | $3,170 | ||
36Horticulture ResearchOANature Portfolio · China | 2.72Q1 | 8.45 0.73 up from 2020 | 423 | 100% | $2,960 | ||
37Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 7.05 1.15 up from 2020 | 861 | 27% | $4,570 | ||
38Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 2.65Q1 | 6.17 1.89 up from 2020 | 126 | 9% | $3,000 | ||
39Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 7.43 0.57 up from 2020 | 2,639 | 27% | $4,320 | ||
40Phytochemistry ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.63Q1 | 8.22 2.16 up from 2020 | 175 | 45% | $4,790 | ||
41Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.62Q1 | 6.99 1.22 up from 2020 | 953 | 42% | $4,190 | ||
42Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 7.28 0.68 up from 2020 | 598 | 31% | $4,470 | ||
43Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 7.55 0.37 up from 2020 | 708 | 43% | $5,440 | ||
44Food Quality and PreferenceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 6.60 0.77 up from 2020 | 629 | 54% | $4,420 | ||
45Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 8.37 0.73 up from 2020 | 6,195 | 19% | $4,930 | ||
46BiocharOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 2.56Q1 | 11.16 2.88 up from 2020 | 69 | 44% | $2,690 | ||
47Frontiers in Plant ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.53Q1 | 8.04 0.81 up from 2020 | 5,747 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
48Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.52Q1 | 6.42 0.72 up from 2020 | 476 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
49Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 6.39 0.13 up from 2020 | 831 | 34% | $4,740 | ||
50International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 4.63 1.13 up from 2020 | 116 | 51% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science570
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics147
- Food Science138
- Animal Science and Zoology58
- Insect Science51
- Soil Science43
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Aquatic Science37
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
301 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,117
- Window papers (baseline)
- 715,658 +16.7% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.62485 +12.7% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.