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Biology and Fertility of Soils is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0178-2762Verify ISSN ↗1432-0789Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 19 / 422 | 95th | Q1 |
| Soil Science | 13 / 167 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 22 / 194 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.
Biology and Fertility of Soils is Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 19 of 422), Q1 in Soil Science (rank 13 of 167) and Q1 in Microbiology (rank 22 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Biology and Fertility of Soils 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 12, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.013, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 161.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,790 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.
Biology and Fertility of Soils is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0178-2762 and its online ISSN is 1432-0789.
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.
Biology and Fertility of Soils has an h-index of 193 and a 2-year mean of 7.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Biology and Fertility of Soils published 84 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 100. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (40.2%), Germany (11.8%) and United States (7.3%).
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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