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Applications in Plant Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 2168-0450Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 115 / 736 | 84th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 103 / 541 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Applications in Plant Sciences is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 115 of 736) and Q1 in Plant Science (rank 103 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Applications in Plant Sciences 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.889, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,340 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.
Applications in Plant Sciences is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2168-0450.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Applications in Plant Sciences has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 2.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #112 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Applications in Plant Sciences published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 122. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (44.9%), Germany (6.1%) and United Kingdom (5.5%).
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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