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Bangladesh Journal of Botany is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Bangladesh Botanical Society.
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ISSN 0253-5416Verify ISSN ↗2079-9926Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bangladesh Botanical Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 479 / 541 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1996–2001), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Bangladesh Journal of Botany is Q4 in Plant Science (rank 479 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Bangladesh 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 11th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.184, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 25.
Bangladesh Journal of Botany is published by Bangladesh Botanical Society. Its print ISSN is 0253-5416 and its online ISSN is 2079-9926.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bangladesh Journal of Botany has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #395 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Bangladesh Journal of Botany published 133 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 187. 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 76 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (38.8%), Bangladesh (27.6%) and India (14.5%).
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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