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Acta Botanica Mexicana is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Instituto de Ecologia, A.C..
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ISSN 0187-7151Verify ISSN ↗2448-7589Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 502 / 736 | 31st | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 379 / 541 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Acta Botanica Mexicana is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 502 of 736) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 379 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Botanica Mexicana 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.287, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Acta Botanica Mexicana is published by Instituto de Ecologia, A.C. Its print ISSN is 0187-7151 and its online ISSN is 2448-7589.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Botanica Mexicana has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #443 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Acta Botanica Mexicana published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 84. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Mexico (64.7%), Colombia (16.5%) and United States (5.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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