Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Insect Science journal rankings 2024
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Insect Science has 48 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.65, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 0.99. The top three are Journal of Pest Science, Annual Review of Entomology, and Biological Control.
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)
48 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 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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1Journal of Pest ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.69Q1 | 4.35 0.30 down from 2023 | 385 | 53% | $4,790 | ||
2Annual Review of EntomologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.67Q1 | 13.70 1.36 up from 2023 | 79 | 96% | — | ||
3Biological ControlOAElsevier BV · United States | 1.45Q1 | 3.78 0.32 down from 2023 | 641 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
4Entomologia GeneralisE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 1.43Q1 | 4.33 0.90 down from 2023 | 241 | 24% | — | ||
5Journal of Insects as Food and FeedNetherlands | 1.33Q1 | 3.14 1.47 down from 2023 | 416 | 61% | — | ||
6Frontiers in Insect ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.30Q1 | 3.40 0.77 up from 2023 | 160 | 100% | $3,077 | ||
7InsectsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.26Q1 | 3.28 0.02 up from 2023 | 3,254 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
8Journal of Integrated Pest ManagementOAOxford University Press · United States | 1.08Q1 | 2.42 0.08 up from 2023 | 96 | 100% | $1,175 | ||
9Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest ControlOASpringer Nature · Egypt | 1.06Q1 | 2.72 0.38 down from 2023 | 408 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
10BioControlSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.03Q1 | 3.03 0.58 up from 2023 | 156 | 44% | $3,790 | ||
11Current Research in Insect ScienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.99Q1 | 3.11 0.41 up from 2023 | 56 | 100% | $1,700 | ||
12Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.99Q1 | 1.73 0.86 down from 2023 | 116 | 47% | $4,328 | ||
13Journal of Invertebrate PathologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.91Q2 | 2.60 0.42 down from 2023 | 334 | 42% | $3,760 | ||
14Journal of Insect ScienceOAOxford University Press · United States | 0.91Q2 | 1.91 0.36 down from 2023 | 295 | 100% | $2,170 | ||
15Journal of Insect PhysiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 2.47 0.08 up from 2023 | 245 | 59% | $3,430 | ||
16Journal of Economic EntomologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.89Q2 | 2.64 0.22 up from 2023 | 707 | 35% | $4,328 | ||
17Insect ScienceWiley · Australia | 0.89Q2 | 2.84 0.26 up from 2023 | 384 | 58% | $3,400 | ||
18Journal of Apicultural ResearchTaylor & Francis | 0.85Q2 | 2.01 0.32 up from 2023 | 359 | 37% | — | ||
19Journal of Chemical EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.84Q2 | 1.97 0.36 down from 2023 | 225 | 51% | $3,890 | ||
20Agricultural and Forest EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 2.02 0.27 up from 2023 | 164 | 72% | $4,410 | ||
21Neotropical EntomologySpringer Nature · Brazil | 0.79Q2 | 2.04 0.39 up from 2023 | 278 | 27% | $3,090 | ||
22Journal of Applied EntomologyWiley · Germany | 0.78Q2 | 2.02 0.22 up from 2023 | 337 | 64% | $4,780 | ||
23PhytoparasiticaSpringer Science+Business Media · Israel | 0.67Q2 | 1.85 0.04 down from 2023 | 244 | 30% | $3,090 | ||
24Environmental EntomologyOxford University Press · United States | 0.67Q2 | 1.59 0.23 down from 2023 | 370 | 33% | $4,328 | ||
25Current Opinion in Insect ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.63Q3 | 5.39 0.53 down from 2023 | 272 | 61% | $4,610 | ||
26Applied Entomology and ZoologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.63Q3 | 1.51 0.05 up from 2023 | 135 | 21% | $3,790 | ||
27Physiological EntomologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 1.66 0.01 up from 2023 | 65 | 58% | $3,920 | ||
28Arthropod-Plant InteractionsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 1.39 0.22 down from 2023 | 229 | 30% | $3,090 | ||
29International Journal of Tropical Insect ScienceSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 1.48 0.03 down from 2023 | 742 | 11% | $3,290 | ||
30Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataWiley · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 1.64 0.27 up from 2023 | 343 | 66% | $4,430 | ||
31Bulletin of Entomological ResearchCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 1.42 0.07 up from 2023 | 243 | 43% | $3,550 | ||
32Journal of Asia-Pacific EntomologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.51Q3 | 1.45 0.11 up from 2023 | 499 | 14% | $3,000 | ||
33Biocontrol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 1.31 0.27 down from 2023 | 245 | 22% | — | ||
34Entomological ResearchWiley · Australia | 0.51Q3 | 1.78 0.39 up from 2023 | 164 | 49% | $3,310 | ||
35The Canadian EntomologistCambridge University Press · United States | 0.48Q3 | 1.36 0.60 up from 2023 | 144 | 77% | $3,308 | ||
36African EntomologyOAPeter Lang · South Africa | 0.47Q3 | 0.64 0.67 down from 2023 | 147 | 100% | $369 | ||
37Journal of Apicultural ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.44Q4 | 0.93 0.10 up from 2023 | 54 | 100% | $539 | ||
38Bee WorldTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.44Q4 | 1.02 0.31 up from 2023 | 95 | 46% | — | ||
39Florida EntomologistOAFlorida Entomological Society · United States | 0.40Q4 | 0.95no change | 182 | 100% | $1,130 | ||
40RediaOAItaly | 0.27Q4 | 0.70 0.24 down from 2023 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
41Revista Colombiana de EntomologíaColombia | 0.26Q4 | 0.60 0.27 down from 2023 | 73 | 100% | — | ||
42Folia MalacologicaOABogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe · Poland | 0.24Q4 | 0.91 0.44 up from 2023 | 79 | 100% | — | ||
43Molluscan ResearchTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.22Q4 | 0.59 0.32 down from 2023 | 90 | 16% | — | ||
44Journal of Entomological and Acarological ResearchOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 0.21Q4 | 0.29 0.59 down from 2023 | 31 | 100% | $269 | ||
45Advances in EntomologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.55 0.07 down from 2023 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
46Southwestern EntomologistSociety of Southwestern Entomologists · United States | 0.13Q4 | 0.32 0.10 down from 2023 | 409 | 2% | — | ||
47Journal of Entomological ScienceGeorgia Entomological Society · United States | 0.13Q4 | 0.41 0.15 down from 2023 | 154 | 35% | — | ||
48Entomological NewsAmerican Entomological Society · United States | 0.09Q4 | 0.26 0.04 down from 2023 | 86 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Insect 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.
12 additional Insect 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
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,994 +11.9% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.650 -7.7% 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 | 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.