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Breeding Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. Published by Japanese Society of Breeding.
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ISSN 1344-7610Verify ISSN ↗1347-3735Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society of Breeding
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 173 / 541 | 68th | Q2 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 140 / 422 | 66th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 200 / 357 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Breeding Science is Q2 in Plant Science (rank 173 of 541), Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 140 of 422) and Q3 in Genetics (rank 200 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Breeding Science 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.608, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
Breeding Science is published by Japanese Society of Breeding. Its print ISSN is 1344-7610 and its online ISSN is 1347-3735.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Breeding Science has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 1.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #208 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Breeding Science published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 90. 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.
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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