Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Soil Science journal rankings 2024
40 ranked journals · Subfield in Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Soil Science has 40 ranked journals in 2024. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.24 against 1.00, unchanged on 2023. A journal needs OJR 1.98 to reach Q1. The top three are Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Carbon Research, and Biochar.
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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1Soil Biology and BiochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.62Q1 | 11.19 0.51 up from 2023 | 871 | 57% | $4,950 | ||
2Carbon ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media | 3.47Q1 | 15.36 5.87 down from 2023 | 80 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
3BiocharOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 3.32Q1 | 15.84 0.46 up from 2023 | 210 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
4International Soil and Water Conservation ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 2.68Q1 | 7.02 0.24 down from 2023 | 203 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
5Agriculture Ecosystems & EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 7.17 0.46 up from 2023 | 1,169 | 45% | $4,190 | ||
6SOILOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.48Q1 | 5.11 2.40 down from 2023 | 133 | 100% | $1,110 | ||
7Soil and Tillage ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.30Q1 | 7.49 0.91 up from 2023 | 833 | 31% | $4,570 | ||
8GeodermaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 7.31 1.09 up from 2023 | 1,431 | 100% | $3,320 | ||
9Agricultural Water ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 7.00 0.54 up from 2023 | 1,648 | 100% | $3,070 | ||
10CATENAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 6.35 0.57 up from 2023 | 2,318 | 26% | $3,680 | ||
11Biology and Fertility of SoilsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.75Q2 | 5.78 0.15 up from 2023 | 238 | 53% | $4,790 | ||
12Applied Soil EcologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q2 | 5.68 0.21 up from 2023 | 1,092 | 33% | $4,320 | ||
13Soil SecurityOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 4.74 0.62 up from 2023 | 115 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
14Soil Use and ManagementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 3.97 1.50 down from 2023 | 307 | 62% | $4,120 | ||
15European Journal of Soil BiologyElsevier BV · France | 1.46Q2 | 3.62 0.49 down from 2023 | 186 | 44% | $3,800 | ||
16Land Degradation and DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 4.11 0.22 up from 2023 | 1,074 | 48% | $5,230 | ||
17European Journal of Soil ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 4.23 0.01 up from 2023 | 340 | 70% | $4,490 | ||
18PedosphereElsevier BV · China | 1.37Q2 | 4.48 0.02 up from 2023 | 351 | 12% | $3,000 | ||
19Frontiers in Soil ScienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.37Q2 | 5.17 2.38 up from 2023 | 145 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
20Applied and Environmental Soil ScienceOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 3.90 0.74 up from 2023 | 148 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
21Soil SystemsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.23Q3 | 4.38 0.67 up from 2023 | 281 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
22Geoderma RegionalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q3 | 3.77 0.04 up from 2023 | 356 | 53% | $2,310 | ||
23Irrigation ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.11Q3 | 3.80 0.16 up from 2023 | 190 | 45% | $3,990 | ||
24Soil Ecology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.10Q3 | 3.83 0.30 down from 2023 | 130 | 14% | $3,790 | ||
25Economics of Disasters and Climate ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.99Q3 | 2.06 0.33 up from 2023 | 56 | 77% | $2,990 | ||
26Nutrient Cycling in AgroecosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.96Q3 | 2.76 0.04 down from 2023 | 219 | 52% | $3,890 | ||
27Journal of Soils and SedimentsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.88Q3 | 3.42 0.26 up from 2023 | 851 | 30% | $3,890 | ||
28PedobiologiaElsevier BV · Germany | 0.87Q3 | 2.28 0.04 down from 2023 | 114 | 56% | $3,260 | ||
29Agricultural & Environmental LettersOAAmerican Society of Agronomy · United States | 0.86Q3 | 2.83 0.85 up from 2023 | 78 | 100% | $1,900 | ||
30Soil Science Society of America JournalWiley · United States | 0.78Q3 | 2.29 0.31 down from 2023 | 371 | 70% | $2,020 | ||
31Archives of Agronomy and Soil ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.77Q4 | 2.06 0.43 down from 2023 | 318 | 100% | — | ||
32Revista Brasileira de Ciência do SoloOASociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo · Brazil | 0.75Q4 | 2.22 0.09 down from 2023 | 149 | 100% | $100 | ||
33Journal of Soil and Water ConservationSoil and Water Conservation Society · United States | 0.67Q4 | 2.00 0.18 down from 2023 | 178 | 62% | — | ||
34Soil ResearchCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 0.56Q4 | 1.96 0.51 up from 2023 | 176 | 50% | — | ||
35Irrigation and DrainageWiley · United Kingdom | 0.55Q4 | 1.86 0.07 up from 2023 | 328 | 54% | $3,450 | ||
36Soil and Water ResearchOAÚstav zemědělských a potravinářských informací · Czechia | 0.53Q4 | 1.80 0.17 down from 2023 | 67 | 100% | $609 | ||
37Canadian Journal of Soil ScienceCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.48Q4 | 1.72 0.02 down from 2023 | 189 | 63% | — | ||
38Open Journal of Soil ScienceOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.36Q4 | 1.60 0.51 up from 2023 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering BOADavid Publishing Company · United States | 0.10Q4 | 0.28 0.02 down from 2023 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
40Irrigation & Drainage Systems EngineeringOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.08Q4 | —no 2023 value | 35 | — | — |
Subfields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with Soil 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.
6 additional Soil 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)
- 52,438 +7.6% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.243 +3.3% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 24 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 33 | 35 | 37 | 37 | 39 | 39 | 42 | 43 | 41 | 42 | 40 | 39 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,748 | 9,099 | 10,240 | 11,138 | 11,116 | 11,430 | 12,496 | 14,005 | 15,614 | 17,540 | 20,048 | 22,776 | 24,823 | 26,542 | 28,955 | 32,598 | 35,237 | 37,010 | 38,759 | 41,955 | 45,293 | 48,749 | 50,177 | 51,294 | 52,438 | 56,582 | |
| Median OJR | 1.13 | 1.23 | 1.255 | 1.34 | 1.31 | 1.245 | 1.238 | 1.358 | 1.433 | 1.428 | 1.59 | 1.556 | 1.64 | 1.66 | 1.557 | 1.42 | 1.53 | 1.39 | 1.33 | 1.253 | 1.28 | 1.20 | 1.356 | 1.247 | 1.243 | 1.29 |
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.