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Annual Review of Plant Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 49.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Annual Reviews Inc..
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ISSN 1543-5008Verify ISSN ↗1545-2123Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Annual Reviews Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 1 / 541 | 99th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 3 / 289 | 99th | Q1 |
| Physiology | 3 / 196 | 98th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 6 / 414 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 49.6.
Annual Review of Plant Biology is Q1 in Plant Science (rank 1 of 541), Q1 in Cell Biology (rank 3 of 289) and Q1 in Physiology (rank 3 of 196), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Annual Review of Plant Biology 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 49.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 9.949, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 320.
Annual Review of Plant Biology is published by Annual Reviews Inc. Its print ISSN is 1543-5008 and its online ISSN is 1545-2123.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Annual Review of Plant Biology has an h-index of 293 and a 2-year mean of 27.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 49.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Annual Review of Plant Biology published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 36. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (24.6%), Germany (16.2%) and China (12%).
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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