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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0024-4074Verify ISSN ↗1095-8339Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,541 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 141 / 736 | 80th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 126 / 541 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 141 of 736) and Q1 in Plant Science (rank 126 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.682, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 88.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,541 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.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0024-4074 and its online ISSN is 1095-8339.
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.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society has an h-index of 118 and a 2-year mean of 1.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #240 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society published 119 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 124. 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 Brazil (19.6%), China (15.4%) and United States (13.4%).
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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