Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Agronomy and Crop Science journal rankings 2022
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Agronomy and Crop Science has 39 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.79, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal Practice, GCB Bioenergy, and Journal of Dairy Science.
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 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 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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1Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 2.14Q1 | 4.94 1.23 down from 2021 | 137 | 4% | $3,000 | ||
2GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 6.05 0.57 up from 2021 | 274 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
3Journal of Dairy ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.61Q1 | 3.99 0.47 down from 2021 | 3,055 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
4Animal Feed Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 3.48 0.19 up from 2021 | 825 | 31% | $3,250 | ||
5DairyOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.51Q1 | 3.47 0.05 down from 2021 | 76 | 100% | $1,448 | ||
6Grass and Forage ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 2.44 1.05 down from 2021 | 137 | 38% | $4,780 | ||
7Irish Veterinary JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.89 1.11 up from 2021 | 68 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
8Transboundary and Emerging DiseasesWiley · Germany | 1.30Q1 | 4.74 0.21 down from 2021 | 1,263 | 69% | $2,710 | ||
9Preventive Veterinary MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q1 | 2.99 0.50 down from 2021 | 714 | 53% | $3,280 | ||
10Veterinary SciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.08Q1 | 2.84 0.18 down from 2021 | 652 | 100% | $2,534 | ||
11Veterinary Medicine InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 2.55 0.05 down from 2021 | 165 | 100% | $950 | ||
12Animal ReproductionOAColégio Brasileiro de Patologia Animal (CBPA) · Brazil | 0.95Q2 | 1.92 0.59 down from 2021 | 171 | 100% | $450 | ||
13Domestic Animal EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q2 | 2.24 0.13 down from 2021 | 256 | 20% | $3,740 | ||
14Journal of Dairy ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 2.06 0.03 up from 2021 | 301 | 50% | $3,090 | ||
15Veterinary WorldOAVeterinary World · India | 0.91Q2 | 2.36 0.16 down from 2021 | 1,097 | 100% | $600 | ||
16Tropical Animal Health and ProductionSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.07 0.27 down from 2021 | 1,214 | 18% | $4,090 | ||
17Small Ruminant ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.87Q2 | 2.02 0.20 down from 2021 | 586 | 30% | $2,300 | ||
18Animal Science JournalWiley · Japan | 0.87Q2 | 2.37 0.33 up from 2021 | 481 | 19% | $4,000 | ||
19Applied Animal ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.82Q2 | 1.51 0.17 down from 2021 | 250 | 100% | $1,850 | ||
20Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal ResearchOANetwork for the Veterinarians of Bangladesh · Bangladesh | 0.79Q2 | 2.00 0.57 down from 2021 | 255 | 100% | $250 | ||
21Animal Production ScienceCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.74Q3 | 1.70no change | 571 | 48% | — | ||
22Journal of Veterinary ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.74Q3 | 2.15 0.15 down from 2021 | 226 | 100% | — | ||
23The Journal of Agricultural ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.72Q3 | 1.73 0.39 up from 2021 | 265 | 51% | $3,550 | ||
24JDS CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.71Q3 | 1.58 0.27 up from 2021 | 108 | 100% | $1,310 | ||
25Grassland ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 1.44 0.04 up from 2021 | 110 | 23% | $2,970 | ||
26New Zealand Journal of Agricultural ResearchTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.65Q3 | 1.74 0.88 down from 2021 | 111 | 28% | — | ||
27Australian Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 1.38 0.01 up from 2021 | 275 | 61% | $3,400 | ||
28Scientific and Technical Review (World Organisation for Animal Health)World Organisation for Animal Health | 0.57Q3 | 0.92 0.09 down from 2021 | 189 | 95% | — | ||
29Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Ireland | 0.49Q3 | 0.93 1.11 down from 2021 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
30American Journal of Animal and Veterinary SciencesOAUnited Arab Emirates | 0.39Q3 | 1.16 0.43 up from 2021 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
31TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCESOAScientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) · Türkiye | 0.36Q4 | 0.82no change | 381 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Dairy & Veterinary SciencesOAUnited States | 0.29Q4 | 0.00 0.52 down from 2021 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
33Open Journal of Veterinary MedicineOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.90 0.40 up from 2021 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
34Veterinarski arhivOAUniversity of Zagreb · Croatia | 0.28Q4 | 0.62 0.02 down from 2021 | 177 | 100% | — | ||
35Iranian journal of applied animal scienceOAIslamic Azad University of Rasht · Iran | 0.27Q4 | 0.68 0.01 up from 2021 | 176 | 100% | — | ||
36Animal Husbandry Dairy and Veterinary ScienceOAUnited Kingdom | 0.18Q4 | 0.42 0.18 up from 2021 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
37The Indian Journal of Animal SciencesOAIndian Council of Agricultural Research · India | 0.18Q4 | 0.45 0.01 down from 2021 | 767 | 100% | — | ||
38The Bovine PractitionerOAAmerican Association of Bovine Practitioners · United States | 0.08Q4 | 0.27 0.04 down from 2021 | 131 | 100% | — | ||
39Clinical TheriogenologyOAPublisher not listed | 0.01Q4 | 0.04no change | 38 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Agronomy and Crop Science highlighted.
- 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.
10 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 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
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 46,477 +21.6% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.787 +9.9% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
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 | 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.