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California Agriculture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by University of California, Oakland.
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ISSN 0008-0845Verify ISSN ↗2160-8091Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of California, Oakland
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 76 / 181 | 58th | Q2 |
| Plant Science | 285 / 541 | 47th | Q3 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 226 / 422 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 1985, 1981–1982, 1979, 1973–1975), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
California Agriculture is Q2 in Forestry (rank 76 of 181), Q3 in Plant Science (rank 285 of 541) and Q3 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 226 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
California Agriculture 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.349, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
California Agriculture is published by University of California, Oakland. Its print ISSN is 0008-0845 and its online ISSN is 2160-8091.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
California Agriculture has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 0.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #92 of 162 Scopus journals in Forestry.
California Agriculture published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 48. 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 72 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (91.7%), Australia (1.4%) and China (1.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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