Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2021
33 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 33 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2020 to 0.91, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.09. The top three are The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Rural Studies, and Sociologia Ruralis.
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)
33 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 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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1The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.65Q1 | 6.57 2.73 up from 2020 | 227 | 44% | — | ||
2Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 5.70 0.72 up from 2020 | 661 | 59% | $4,090 | ||
3Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.44Q1 | 4.53 1.27 up from 2020 | 114 | 57% | $3,920 | ||
4Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 3.92 0.83 up from 2020 | 109 | 50% | $3,820 | ||
5Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 7.19 1.12 up from 2020 | 548 | 65% | $4,000 | ||
6Agriculture & Food SecurityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 4.54 0.43 up from 2020 | 118 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
7International Journal of Agricultural SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 4.63 1.13 up from 2020 | 116 | 51% | — | ||
8Journal of Agricultural EconomicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 4.25 1.40 up from 2020 | 140 | 61% | $4,150 | ||
9EuroChoicesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 3.54 2.13 up from 2020 | 101 | 27% | $3,470 | ||
10Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 2.07Q2 | 3.85 1.26 up from 2020 | 304 | 50% | $3,990 | ||
11Agroecology and Sustainable Food SystemsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.96Q2 | 3.29 0.07 down from 2020 | 171 | 35% | — | ||
12Outlook on AgricultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.83Q2 | 4.26 1.92 up from 2020 | 120 | 79% | $3,650 | ||
13The Journal of Agricultural Education and ExtensionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.78Q2 | 2.65 0.74 up from 2020 | 101 | 47% | — | ||
14European CountrysideOADe Gruyter Open · Czechia | 1.58Q2 | 2.57 0.66 up from 2020 | 109 | 100% | $129 | ||
15Journal of Agricultural & Food InformationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.12Q2 | 1.78 0.03 up from 2020 | 44 | 33% | — | ||
16Culture Agriculture Food and EnvironmentWiley · United States | 1.04Q2 | 0.62 0.77 down from 2020 | 46 | 35% | $3,400 | ||
17Journal of Research in Technical CareersOAUnited States | 0.91Q2 | 1.40 0.97 up from 2020 | 32 | 100% | $150 | ||
18Agrarian South Journal of Political Economy A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARESSAGE Publishing · India | 0.86Q3 | 1.10 0.52 up from 2020 | 58 | 27% | $3,400 | ||
19Journal of Agricultural EducationOAAmerican Association for Agricultural Education · United States | 0.77Q3 | 0.67 0.03 down from 2020 | 244 | 100% | — | ||
20Journal of Applied CommunicationsOANew Prairie Press · United States | 0.71Q3 | 0.84 0.82 down from 2020 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
21Studies in Agricultural EconomicsOAResearch Institute of Agricultural Economics · Hungary | 0.69Q3 | 1.10 0.09 down from 2020 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
22Agricultural Economics Research ReviewAgricultural Economics Research Association · India | 0.61Q3 | 0.58 0.05 up from 2020 | 132 | 77% | — | ||
23Bio-based and Applied EconomicsOAFirenze University Press · Italy | 0.52Q3 | 0.82 0.13 down from 2020 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
24Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural ScienceAgricultural Academy of Bulgaria · Bulgaria | 0.42Q3 | 0.90 0.51 down from 2020 | 70 | 0% | — | ||
25Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable DevelopmentOADe Gruyter Open · Slovakia | 0.41Q3 | 0.78 0.45 up from 2020 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
26Natural sciences educationWiley · United States | 0.35Q4 | 0.75 0.11 down from 2020 | 78 | 57% | $1,580 | ||
27Journal of International Agricultural and Extension EducationOANew Prairie Press · United States | 0.34Q4 | 0.90 0.01 up from 2020 | 123 | 100% | — | ||
28German Journal of Agricultural EconomicsOADeutscher Fachverlag · Germany | 0.33Q4 | 0.51 0.18 up from 2020 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
29Journal of ExtensionOAClemson University · United States | 0.30Q4 | 0.53 0.03 up from 2020 | 472 | 100% | — | ||
30School of Information Student Research JournalOASJSU Scholarworks · United States | 0.27Q4 | 0.27 0.17 up from 2020 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
31Revista Fitotecnia MexicanaOAMexican Society of Phytogenetics · Mexico | 0.22Q4 | 0.40 0.04 up from 2020 | 245 | 100% | — | ||
32International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and InformaticsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.22Q4 | 0.45 0.06 up from 2020 | 124 | 0% | — | ||
33Journal of Human Sciences and ExtensionOAMississippi State University · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.23 0.48 down from 2020 | 125 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 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.
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 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
- 33
- Window papers (baseline)
- 60,120 +42.7% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.91 -3.5% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 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.