Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Agronomy and Crop Science journal rankings 2021
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Agronomy and Crop Science has 39 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2020 to 0.81, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.16. The top three are Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal Practice, GCB Bioenergy, and Journal of Dairy Science.
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 of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11)
39 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 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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1Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 2.65Q1 | 6.17 1.89 up from 2020 | 126 | 9% | $3,000 | ||
2GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 5.49 0.07 down from 2020 | 251 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
3Journal of Dairy ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.83Q1 | 4.46 0.09 up from 2020 | 3,101 | 99% | $3,500 | ||
4Animal Feed Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 3.29 0.06 up from 2020 | 723 | 30% | $3,250 | ||
5Grass and Forage ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 3.49 0.69 up from 2020 | 151 | 28% | $4,780 | ||
6Irish Veterinary JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 2.78 0.17 up from 2020 | 66 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
7Transboundary and Emerging DiseasesWiley · Germany | 1.25Q1 | 4.96 0.35 up from 2020 | 1,101 | 75% | $2,710 | ||
8Veterinary Medicine InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 2.61 1.61 down from 2020 | 104 | 100% | $950 | ||
9Preventive Veterinary MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 3.49 0.65 up from 2020 | 696 | 48% | $3,280 | ||
10Veterinary SciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.16Q1 | 3.03 0.16 up from 2020 | 408 | 100% | $2,534 | ||
11Animal ReproductionOAColégio Brasileiro de Patologia Animal (CBPA) · Brazil | 1.06Q2 | 2.51 0.30 up from 2020 | 198 | 100% | $450 | ||
12Domestic Animal EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.98Q2 | 2.37 0.56 up from 2020 | 241 | 31% | $3,740 | ||
13Applied Animal ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.95Q2 | 1.68 0.29 up from 2020 | 168 | 98% | $1,850 | ||
14Veterinary WorldOAVeterinary World · India | 0.95Q2 | 2.52 0.10 down from 2020 | 944 | 100% | $600 | ||
15Tropical Animal Health and ProductionSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 2.35 0.53 up from 2020 | 954 | 14% | $4,090 | ||
16Small Ruminant ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 2.21 0.40 up from 2020 | 593 | 27% | $2,300 | ||
17New Zealand Journal of Agricultural ResearchTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.87Q2 | 2.61 0.61 up from 2020 | 122 | 25% | — | ||
18Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Ireland | 0.86Q2 | 2.04 0.51 up from 2020 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
19Animal Science JournalWiley · Japan | 0.82Q2 | 2.03 0.24 up from 2020 | 480 | 24% | $4,000 | ||
20Journal of Dairy ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 2.03 0.12 up from 2020 | 306 | 47% | $3,090 | ||
21The Journal of Agricultural ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.79Q3 | 1.34 0.44 down from 2020 | 320 | 47% | $3,550 | ||
22Animal Production ScienceCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.78Q3 | 1.70 0.18 up from 2020 | 604 | 45% | — | ||
23Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal ResearchOANetwork for the Veterinarians of Bangladesh · Bangladesh | 0.78Q3 | 2.57 0.84 up from 2020 | 238 | 100% | $250 | ||
24Grassland ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 1.40 0.04 down from 2020 | 105 | 37% | $2,970 | ||
25Journal of Veterinary ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.68Q3 | 2.30 0.03 up from 2020 | 239 | 100% | — | ||
26Australian Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 1.37 0.20 up from 2020 | 279 | 19% | $3,400 | ||
27Scientific and Technical Review (World Organisation for Animal Health)World Organisation for Animal Health | 0.55Q3 | 1.01 0.90 down from 2020 | 226 | 88% | — | ||
28The Professional Animal ScientistElsevier BV · United States | 0.53Q3 | —no 2020 value | 74 | — | — | ||
29Veterinarski arhivOAUniversity of Zagreb · Croatia | 0.34Q3 | 0.64 0.33 down from 2020 | 174 | 100% | — | ||
30Iranian journal of applied animal scienceOAIslamic Azad University of Rasht · Iran | 0.33Q3 | 0.67 0.07 up from 2020 | 198 | 100% | — | ||
31TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCESOAScientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) · Türkiye | 0.33Q4 | 0.81 0.02 up from 2020 | 371 | 100% | — | ||
32American Journal of Animal and Veterinary SciencesOAUnited Arab Emirates | 0.28Q4 | 0.72 0.15 up from 2020 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
33Journal of Dairy & Veterinary SciencesOAUnited States | 0.26Q4 | 0.52 0.08 up from 2020 | 181 | 100% | — | ||
34Open Journal of Veterinary MedicineOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.20Q4 | 0.50 0.32 up from 2020 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
35Animal Husbandry Dairy and Veterinary ScienceOAUnited Kingdom | 0.19Q4 | 0.24 0.17 down from 2020 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
36The Indian Journal of Animal SciencesOAIndian Council of Agricultural Research · India | 0.15Q4 | 0.45 0.14 up from 2020 | 744 | 100% | — | ||
37Advances in Animal BiosciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.13Q4 | 0.63 0.37 up from 2020 | 32 | — | — | ||
38The Bovine PractitionerOAAmerican Association of Bovine Practitioners · United States | 0.12Q4 | 0.31no change | 131 | 100% | — | ||
39Clinical TheriogenologyOAPublisher not listed | 0.03Q4 | 0.04 0.04 up from 2020 | 37 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Agronomy and Crop Science highlighted.
- 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.
11 additional Agronomy and Crop Science 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
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,648 +22.3% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.81 +19.5% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 28 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 34 | 33 | 36 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 38 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 42 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,383 | 13,377 | 14,446 | 15,285 | 14,514 | 14,740 | 15,765 | 16,996 | 18,838 | 20,893 | 24,363 | 27,949 | 30,272 | 31,359 | 31,937 | 34,776 | 36,318 | 37,062 | 36,513 | 38,227 | 40,636 | 44,648 | 46,477 | 47,369 | 46,814 | 48,433 | |
| Median OJR | 0.42 | 0.57 | 0.58 | 0.764 | 0.69 | 0.78 | 0.84 | 0.722 | 0.758 | 0.61 | 0.7056 | 0.7061 | 0.74 | 0.708 | 0.64 | 0.723 | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.68 | 0.716 | 0.86 | 0.81 | 0.787 | 0.82 | 0.85 | 0.791 |
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.