Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Field ranking · 2022
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2022
1,114 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 1,114 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.11. The top three are Trends in Food Science & Technology, Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, and The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.70Q1 | 18.16 0.39 up from 2021 | 1,272 | 34% | $5,440 | ||
2Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 5.67Q1 | 17.30 0.41 down from 2021 | 457 | 34% | $5,000 | ||
3The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.39Q1 | 6.72 0.15 up from 2021 | 243 | 45% | — | ||
4NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.23Q1 | 4.14 7.99 down from 2021 | 52 | — | $2,500 | ||
5Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 4.94Q1 | 16.39 1.83 up from 2021 | 583 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
6Artificial Intelligence in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · China | 4.58Q1 | 11.81 2.73 down from 2021 | 75 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
7Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 3.94Q1 | 5.15 0.63 up from 2021 | 119 | 80% | $3,920 | ||
8Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 3.89Q1 | 9.51 1.88 down from 2021 | 636 | 65% | $5,300 | ||
9Nature PlantsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 12.98 1.44 up from 2021 | 662 | 35% | $12,690 | ||
10Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 6.28 0.58 up from 2021 | 790 | 55% | $4,090 | ||
11Biotechnology Research and InnovationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.76Q1 | 1.08 12.31 down from 2021 | 44 | 89% | — | ||
12Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.55Q1 | 8.68 0.32 up from 2021 | 179 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
13Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 10.76 0.18 up from 2021 | 658 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
14Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 7.76 0.57 up from 2021 | 619 | 62% | $4,000 | ||
15Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 10.84 0.89 up from 2021 | 2,432 | 21% | $4,990 | ||
16Journal of Integrative Plant BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 10.54 1.73 up from 2021 | 351 | 38% | $3,000 | ||
17Plant CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.24Q1 | 10.09 0.43 up from 2021 | 140 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
18Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.22Q1 | 10.07 1.55 up from 2021 | 1,777 | 24% | $3,870 | ||
19BiocharOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 3.18Q1 | 14.47 3.31 up from 2021 | 117 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
20Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 10.22 1.69 up from 2021 | 918 | 49% | $4,950 | ||
21New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 9.17 0.21 down from 2021 | 2,175 | 59% | $5,790 | ||
22Reviews in AquacultureWiley · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 10.21 0.41 down from 2021 | 302 | 43% | $4,480 | ||
23Horticulture ResearchOANature Portfolio · China | 2.95Q1 | 9.96 1.51 up from 2021 | 591 | 100% | $2,960 | ||
24Information Processing in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 7.58 0.87 down from 2021 | 174 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
25SOILOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.94Q1 | 9.94 0.70 up from 2021 | 113 | 100% | $1,110 | ||
26Plant PhenomicsOAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · China | 2.92Q1 | 8.39 0.74 down from 2021 | 85 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
27Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.92Q1 | 10.09 0.93 down from 2021 | 1,195 | 15% | — | ||
28Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 7.99 0.85 up from 2021 | 330 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
29International Soil and Water Conservation ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 2.81Q1 | 7.90 0.24 up from 2021 | 163 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
30Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.80Q1 | 9.00 1.58 up from 2021 | 2,478 | 24% | $4,320 | ||
31Meat ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 8.01 1.61 up from 2021 | 727 | 31% | $4,740 | ||
32Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 7.13 0.29 down from 2021 | 223 | 44% | $4,190 | ||
33Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.77Q1 | 7.70 0.35 down from 2021 | 111 | 21% | $3,090 | ||
34Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 9.57 1.19 up from 2021 | 7,067 | 19% | $4,930 | ||
35Agriculture & Food SecurityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 5.25 0.72 up from 2021 | 90 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
36Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.72Q1 | 6.75 0.30 down from 2021 | 955 | 28% | $4,570 | ||
37Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.72Q1 | 26.33 6.23 down from 2021 | 94 | 57% | — | ||
38Chemical and Biological Technologies in AgricultureOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.71Q1 | 7.86 1.84 up from 2021 | 122 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
39Agrarian South Journal of Political Economy A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARESSAGE Publishing · India | 2.68Q1 | 1.58 0.48 up from 2021 | 62 | 18% | $3,400 | ||
40Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 6.50 0.02 down from 2021 | 694 | 34% | $3,680 | ||
41Journal of Agrarian ChangeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 2.64 1.29 down from 2021 | 120 | 44% | $3,820 | ||
42Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 7.55 0.27 up from 2021 | 641 | 26% | $4,470 | ||
43Current Research in Food ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.63Q1 | 7.51 0.33 up from 2021 | 169 | 100% | $3,170 | ||
44Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.62Q1 | 6.89 0.09 down from 2021 | 1,029 | 42% | $4,190 | ||
45Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.60Q1 | 6.11 0.31 down from 2021 | 908 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
46Future FoodsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 7.05 3.91 up from 2021 | 103 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
47Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 8.75 1.28 up from 2021 | 56 | 11% | — | ||
48Animal nutritionOAKeAi · China | 2.53Q1 | 6.80 0.95 up from 2021 | 288 | 100% | $1,462 | ||
49Plant Cell & EnvironmentWiley · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 7.75 0.20 up from 2021 | 663 | 47% | $5,440 | ||
50European Journal of AgronomyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 5.85 0.06 down from 2021 | 398 | 39% | $3,200 |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science571
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics150
- Food Science135
- Animal Science and Zoology59
- Insect Science49
- Soil Science41
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences35
- Aquatic Science34
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
293 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,114
- Window papers (baseline)
- 750,083 +18.0% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.615 +3.7% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.