Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Field ranking · 2023
Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal rankings 2023
1,105 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Agricultural and Biological Sciences has 1,105 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.62, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.13. The top three are Carbon Research, Trends in Food Science & Technology, and Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Carbon ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media | 5.67Q1 | 21.23no 2022 value | 30 | 100% | $0 listed | — | |
2Trends in Food Science & TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.64Q1 | 18.75 0.59 up from 2022 | 1,239 | 26% | $5,440 | ||
3Artificial Intelligence in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · China | 5.54Q1 | 14.75 2.93 up from 2022 | 77 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
4Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food SafetyWiley · United States | 5.17Q1 | 14.46 2.84 down from 2022 | 545 | 59% | $5,000 | ||
5The Journal of Peasant StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 6.21 0.50 down from 2022 | 278 | 43% | — | ||
6Molecular PlantElsevier BV · China | 4.65Q1 | 9.35 7.04 down from 2022 | 618 | 100% | $5,000 | ||
7BiocharOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 4.04Q1 | 15.38 0.90 up from 2022 | 157 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
8Ecology LettersWiley · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 8.98 0.54 down from 2022 | 614 | 80% | $5,300 | ||
9Agronomy for Sustainable DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 3.67Q1 | 8.36 0.32 down from 2022 | 242 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
10Journal of Rural StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 6.46 0.18 up from 2022 | 834 | 67% | $4,090 | ||
11Agriculture & Food SecurityOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 7.51 2.26 up from 2022 | 138 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
12Nature PlantsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 10.71 2.27 down from 2022 | 673 | 37% | $12,690 | ||
13Agricultural SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 8.20 0.45 up from 2022 | 583 | 75% | $4,000 | ||
14Computers and Electronics in AgricultureElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.35Q1 | 9.59 0.48 down from 2022 | 2,106 | 29% | $3,870 | ||
15Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 10.69 0.46 up from 2022 | 935 | 55% | $4,950 | ||
16Food HydrocolloidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 11.18 0.34 up from 2022 | 2,554 | 26% | $4,990 | ||
17Journal of Integrative Plant BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 8.37 2.17 down from 2022 | 444 | 66% | $3,000 | ||
18Reviews in AquacultureWiley · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 9.33 0.88 down from 2022 | 350 | 77% | $4,480 | ||
19Future FoodsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 8.77 1.72 up from 2022 | 192 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
20Smart Agricultural TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.94Q1 | 7.76 4.07 up from 2022 | 164 | 100% | $1,770 | ||
21Plant Biotechnology JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 8.94 1.81 down from 2022 | 628 | 100% | $4,320 | ||
22Plant CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.88Q1 | 8.82 1.28 down from 2022 | 236 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
23New PhytologistWiley · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 8.25 0.92 down from 2022 | 2,194 | 87% | $5,790 | ||
24Information Processing in AgricultureOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.83Q1 | 7.86 0.29 up from 2022 | 154 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
25Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology/Journal of animal science and biotechnologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 7.49 0.50 down from 2022 | 379 | 100% | $2,790 | ||
26Critical Reviews in Plant SciencesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 7.45 1.30 down from 2022 | 58 | 48% | — | ||
27Food Research InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 7.80 1.21 down from 2022 | 3,111 | 32% | $4,320 | ||
28Plant StressOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.69Q1 | 8.15 2.23 up from 2022 | 125 | 100% | $2,310 | ||
29Food ChemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 9.15 0.41 down from 2022 | 8,188 | 21% | $4,930 | ||
30Precision AgricultureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 7.06 0.06 down from 2022 | 260 | 45% | $4,190 | ||
31Veterinary QuarterlyOATaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 8.88 0.46 up from 2022 | 79 | 100% | $1,533 | ||
32Sociologia RuralisWiley · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 3.90 1.25 down from 2022 | 110 | 78% | $3,920 | ||
33Current Research in Food ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 7.57 0.06 up from 2022 | 410 | 100% | $3,170 | ||
34Molecular HorticultureOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 8.12 0.77 down from 2022 | 43 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
35Phytochemistry ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.58Q1 | 8.63 0.83 up from 2022 | 177 | 44% | $4,790 | ||
36Critical Reviews in Food Science and NutritionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.57Q1 | 8.39 1.70 down from 2022 | 1,658 | 17% | — | ||
37Journal of Agriculture and Food ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 6.88 1.63 up from 2022 | 465 | 100% | $2,530 | ||
38Journal of Future FoodsOAElsevier BV · China | 2.56Q1 | 7.00 0.20 up from 2022 | 70 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
39International Soil and Water Conservation ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 2.56Q1 | 7.26 0.64 down from 2022 | 189 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
40Food Chemistry XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 7.52 1.25 up from 2022 | 448 | 100% | $2,330 | ||
| 2.53Q1 | 2.18 1.62 down from 2022 | 112 | 100% | — | |||
42Outlook on AgricultureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 5.52 1.32 up from 2022 | 115 | 53% | $3,650 | ||
43Horticulture ResearchOANature Portfolio · China | 2.47Q1 | 7.80 2.17 down from 2022 | 840 | 100% | $2,960 | ||
43Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.47Q1 | 6.72 0.17 down from 2022 | 1,106 | 47% | $4,190 | ||
45Food Engineering ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.47Q1 | 6.70 1.00 down from 2022 | 115 | 36% | $3,090 | ||
46SOILOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.45Q1 | 7.51 2.43 down from 2022 | 135 | 100% | $1,110 | ||
47Animal nutritionOAKeAi · China | 2.45Q1 | 6.60 0.20 down from 2022 | 383 | 100% | $1,462 | ||
48Field Crops ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 6.69 0.20 up from 2022 | 745 | 34% | $3,680 | ||
49Innovative Food Science & Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 6.98 0.58 down from 2022 | 759 | 33% | $4,470 | ||
50Annual Review of Plant BiologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.39Q1 | 24.76 1.57 down from 2022 | 92 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, compared.
- Plant Science557
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics151
- Food Science141
- Animal Science and Zoology56
- Insect Science49
- Soil Science42
- Agronomy and Crop Science39
- Aquatic Science36
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
285 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,105
- Window papers (baseline)
- 770,538 +15.1% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.6243 -0.1% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 86Comparison-group list (86)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.