Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Agronomy and Crop Science journal rankings 2024
40 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Agronomy and Crop Science has 40 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.85, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.02. The top three are GCB Bioenergy, Journal of Dairy Science, and Irish Veterinary Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
40 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1GCB BioenergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 4.24 2.34 down from 2023 | 269 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
2Journal of Dairy ScienceOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.63Q1 | 4.44 0.12 up from 2023 | 2,450 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
3Irish Veterinary JournalOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 3.15 0.33 down from 2023 | 81 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
4Grass and Forage ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 3.31 0.21 down from 2023 | 122 | 50% | $4,780 | ||
5DairyOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.48Q1 | 3.81 0.70 up from 2023 | 164 | 100% | $1,448 | ||
6Transboundary and Emerging DiseasesWiley · Germany | 1.30Q1 | 3.09 0.74 down from 2023 | 945 | 99% | $2,710 | ||
7Animal Feed Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 2.99 0.29 up from 2023 | 759 | 39% | $3,250 | ||
8Veterinary Medicine InternationalOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 2.65 0.07 down from 2023 | 207 | 100% | $950 | ||
9Veterinary SciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.04Q1 | 2.69 0.12 up from 2023 | 1,752 | 100% | $2,534 | ||
10Grassland ResearchOAWiley | 1.02Q1 | 2.31 0.94 up from 2023 | 55 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
11Animal DiseasesOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.25 0.13 down from 2023 | 95 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
12JDS CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · United States | 0.99Q2 | 2.07 0.07 down from 2023 | 322 | 100% | $1,310 | ||
13Preventive Veterinary MedicineElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.95Q2 | 2.72 0.01 down from 2023 | 592 | 69% | $3,280 | ||
14Veterinary WorldOAVeterinary World · India | 0.95Q2 | 2.65 0.01 down from 2023 | 1,098 | 100% | $600 | ||
15Domestic Animal EndocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.93Q2 | 2.28 0.18 up from 2023 | 123 | 49% | $3,740 | ||
16Scientific and Technical Review (World Organisation for Animal Health)World Organisation for Animal Health | 0.92Q2 | 1.31 1.10 down from 2023 | 85 | 95% | — | ||
17Veterinary Clinics of North America Food Animal PracticeElsevier BV · United States | 0.90Q2 | 1.90 0.22 down from 2023 | 132 | 15% | $3,000 | ||
18The Journal of Agricultural ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.14 0.35 up from 2023 | 214 | 76% | $3,550 | ||
19Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal ResearchOANetwork for the Veterinarians of Bangladesh · Bangladesh | 0.87Q2 | 2.42 0.24 up from 2023 | 233 | 100% | $250 | ||
20Tropical Animal Health and ProductionSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.88 0.32 down from 2023 | 1,358 | 27% | $4,090 | ||
21Animal ReproductionOAColégio Brasileiro de Patologia Animal (CBPA) · Brazil | 0.84Q3 | 2.17 0.50 up from 2023 | 171 | 100% | $450 | ||
22RuminantsOASwitzerland | 0.81Q3 | 1.51 0.02 down from 2023 | 85 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
23Australian Veterinary JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 1.83 0.28 up from 2023 | 223 | 64% | $3,400 | ||
24Journal of Veterinary ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.71Q3 | 1.68 0.02 up from 2023 | 210 | 100% | — | ||
25Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Ireland | 0.68Q3 | 1.63 0.43 up from 2023 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
26Small Ruminant ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.67Q3 | 1.52 0.33 down from 2023 | 592 | 33% | $2,300 | ||
27Animal Science JournalWiley · Japan | 0.67Q3 | 1.40 0.46 down from 2023 | 391 | 59% | $4,000 | ||
28Journal of Dairy ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 1.14 0.65 down from 2023 | 249 | 61% | $3,090 | ||
29New Zealand Journal of Agricultural ResearchTaylor & Francis · New Zealand | 0.64Q3 | 1.74 0.25 up from 2023 | 143 | 50% | — | ||
30Applied Animal ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.60Q3 | 1.48no change | 208 | 100% | $1,850 | ||
31Animal Production ScienceCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.57Q4 | 1.31 0.29 down from 2023 | 518 | 54% | — | ||
32American Journal of Animal and Veterinary SciencesOAUnited Arab Emirates | 0.44Q4 | 0.91 0.28 down from 2023 | 136 | 100% | — | ||
33Grassland ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.40Q4 | 1.02 0.13 down from 2023 | 86 | 54% | $2,970 | ||
34Open Journal of Veterinary MedicineOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.34Q4 | 0.43 0.20 down from 2023 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
35TURKISH JOURNAL OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCESOAScientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) · Türkiye | 0.31Q4 | 0.78 0.07 up from 2023 | 244 | 100% | — | ||
36Veterinarski arhivOAUniversity of Zagreb · Croatia | 0.22Q4 | 0.48 0.01 down from 2023 | 203 | 100% | — | ||
37The Bovine PractitionerOAAmerican Association of Bovine Practitioners · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.41 0.07 down from 2023 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
38Clinical TheriogenologyOAPublisher not listed | 0.20Q4 | 0.31 0.12 up from 2023 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
39The Indian Journal of Animal SciencesOAIndian Council of Agricultural Research · India | 0.18Q4 | 0.46 0.06 up from 2023 | 829 | 100% | — | ||
40Iranian journal of applied animal scienceOAIslamic Azad University of Rasht · Iran | 0.16Q4 | 0.00 0.75 down from 2023 | 54 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Agronomy and Crop Science highlighted.
- Plant Science550
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics147
- Food Science143
- Animal Science and Zoology58
- Insect Science48
- Agronomy and Crop Science40
- Soil Science40
- Aquatic Science34
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences33
- Forestry1
- Horticulture0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
5 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 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 40
- Window papers (baseline)
- 46,814 +4.9% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.85 +4.8% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.