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Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), DOAJ. Published by Editorial Department of Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica.
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ISSN 1000-4025Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Department of Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 462 / 736 | 37th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 344 / 541 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–2024, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 462 of 736) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 344 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3, 37th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.188, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica is published by Editorial Department of Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica. Its ISSN is 1000-4025.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #652 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 344. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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