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American Journal of Botany is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 0002-9122Verify ISSN ↗1537-2197Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,660 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 169 / 736 | 77th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 151 / 541 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Genetics | 177 / 357 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present (also 1977, 1974, 1965–1970, 1946–1949), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
American Journal of Botany is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 169 of 736), Q2 in Plant Science (rank 151 of 541) and Q2 in Genetics (rank 177 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Botany 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.916, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 186.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,660 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
American Journal of Botany is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0002-9122 and its online ISSN is 1537-2197.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Botany has an h-index of 242 and a 2-year mean of 2.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #141 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
American Journal of Botany published 186 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 233. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (59.2%), Canada (5.3%) and Germany (4.7%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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