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Acta Botanica Croatica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.
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ISSN 0365-0588Verify ISSN ↗1847-8476Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 436 / 736 | 40th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 327 / 541 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present (also 1996, 1985, 1980–1983), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Acta Botanica Croatica is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 436 of 736) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 327 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Botanica Croatica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.265, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 33.
Acta Botanica Croatica is published by Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. Its print ISSN is 0365-0588 and its online ISSN is 1847-8476.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Botanica Croatica has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 1.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #334 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Acta Botanica Croatica published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 44. 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.
In its latest 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Croatia (22.6%), Türkiye (19.5%) and Italy (7.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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