Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Insect Science journal rankings 2021
51 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Insect Science has 51 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Annual Review of Entomology, Journal of Pest Science, and Entomologia Generalis.
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)
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 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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1Annual Review of EntomologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.09Q1 | 21.89 4.65 up from 2020 | 74 | 63% | — | ||
2Journal of Pest ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.04Q1 | 5.77 0.25 down from 2020 | 347 | 45% | $4,790 | ||
3Entomologia GeneralisE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 1.92Q1 | 5.25 0.59 up from 2020 | 123 | 26% | — | ||
4Journal of Integrated Pest ManagementOAOxford University Press · United States | 1.63Q1 | 4.81 0.89 up from 2020 | 83 | 100% | $1,175 | ||
5Biological ControlOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 4.13 0.21 up from 2020 | 643 | 36% | $3,390 | ||
6Journal of Insects as Food and FeedNetherlands | 1.49Q1 | 5.14 1.44 up from 2020 | 157 | 56% | — | ||
7InsectsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.29Q1 | 3.72 0.25 up from 2020 | 1,556 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
8BioControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.19Q1 | 2.95 0.34 up from 2020 | 193 | 25% | $3,790 | ||
9Journal of Apicultural ResearchTaylor & Francis | 1.15Q1 | 2.57 0.48 up from 2020 | 330 | 20% | — | ||
10Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest ControlOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.13Q1 | 3.17 0.43 up from 2020 | 338 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
11Journal of Chemical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q1 | 3.07 0.26 up from 2020 | 297 | 35% | $3,890 | ||
12Arthropod-Plant InteractionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.07Q1 | 2.88 0.92 up from 2020 | 198 | 30% | $3,090 | ||
13Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 2.46 0.46 up from 2020 | 191 | 45% | $4,328 | ||
14Insect ScienceWiley · Australia | 1.03Q2 | 3.35 0.94 up from 2020 | 312 | 26% | $3,400 | ||
15Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataWiley · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 2.50 0.10 up from 2020 | 323 | 25% | $4,430 | ||
16Journal of Insect ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.96Q2 | 2.84 0.52 up from 2020 | 412 | 100% | $2,170 | ||
17Journal of Invertebrate PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q2 | 3.04 0.07 up from 2020 | 383 | 29% | $3,760 | ||
18Environmental EntomologyOxford University Press · United States | 0.93Q2 | 2.22 0.30 down from 2020 | 541 | 30% | $4,328 | ||
19Agricultural and Forest EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.05 0.44 down from 2020 | 137 | 16% | $4,410 | ||
20Journal of Insect PhysiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 2.51 0.26 up from 2020 | 319 | 41% | $3,430 | ||
21Journal of Applied EntomologyWiley · Germany | 0.84Q2 | 2.19 0.11 down from 2020 | 328 | 24% | $4,780 | ||
22Journal of Economic EntomologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 2.47no change | 1,113 | 24% | $4,328 | ||
23African EntomologyOAPeter Lang · South Africa | 0.77Q2 | 0.90 0.41 down from 2020 | 170 | 100% | $369 | ||
24PhytoparasiticaSpringer Science+Business Media · Israel | 0.76Q2 | 1.99 0.46 up from 2020 | 220 | 22% | $3,090 | ||
25Biocontrol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 1.89 0.11 up from 2020 | 313 | 11% | — | ||
26Bulletin of Entomological ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 1.89 0.59 up from 2020 | 254 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
27Journal of Apicultural ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.69Q3 | 1.81 0.83 up from 2020 | 83 | 100% | $539 | ||
28Neotropical EntomologySpringer Nature · Brazil | 0.68Q3 | 1.99 0.68 up from 2020 | 244 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
29Bee WorldTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 1.48 0.61 up from 2020 | 112 | 43% | — | ||
30Florida EntomologistOAFlorida Entomological Society · United States | 0.65Q3 | 1.78 0.46 up from 2020 | 354 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
31Applied Entomology and ZoologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.63Q3 | 1.91 0.37 up from 2020 | 166 | 14% | $3,790 | ||
32Current Opinion in Insect ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.62Q3 | 6.04 0.39 up from 2020 | 329 | 48% | $4,610 | ||
33Physiological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.90 0.11 up from 2020 | 94 | 32% | $3,920 | ||
34Journal of Asia-Pacific EntomologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 1.78 0.41 up from 2020 | 554 | 8% | $3,000 | ||
35Entomological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.51Q3 | 1.52 0.15 up from 2020 | 175 | 10% | $3,310 | ||
36International Journal of Tropical Insect ScienceSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.48Q3 | 1.36 0.57 up from 2020 | 391 | 8% | $3,290 | ||
37Advances in EntomologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.45Q3 | 1.00 0.29 down from 2020 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
38The Canadian EntomologistCambridge University Press · United States | 0.39Q3 | 0.90 0.14 up from 2020 | 228 | 37% | $3,308 | ||
39Journal of Entomological and Acarological ResearchOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.36Q3 | 0.76 0.89 down from 2020 | 33 | 100% | $269 | ||
40Molluscan ResearchTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.32Q4 | 1.02 0.19 down from 2020 | 88 | 15% | — | ||
41Revista Colombiana de EntomologíaColombia | 0.29Q4 | 0.40 0.16 down from 2020 | 103 | 94% | — | ||
42Journal of EntomologyOAPakistan | 0.28Q4 | 0.56 0.10 down from 2020 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
43RediaOAItaly | 0.26Q4 | 0.55 0.01 down from 2020 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Entomological ScienceGeorgia Entomological Society · United States | 0.25Q4 | 0.54 0.13 down from 2020 | 161 | 17% | — | ||
45Folia MalacologicaOABogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe · Poland | 0.23Q4 | 0.64 0.27 down from 2020 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
46Entomological NewsAmerican Entomological Society · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.49 0.17 up from 2020 | 147 | 2% | — | ||
47Southwestern EntomologistSociety of Southwestern Entomologists · United States | 0.16Q4 | 0.52 0.03 up from 2020 | 349 | 1% | — | ||
48Journal of Veterinary Science & TechnologyOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.14Q4 | 0.44 0.18 up from 2020 | 209 | 0% | — | ||
49International Journal of Industrial EntomologyOASouth Korea | 0.12Q4 | 0.39 0.12 up from 2020 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
50Acta Entomologica SinicaPublisher not listed | 0.07Q4 | 0.17 0.02 down from 2020 | 214 | — | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Insect 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.
13 additional Insect 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
- 51
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,413 +13.7% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.70 +8.1% 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 | 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.