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Castanea is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Southern Appalachian Botanical Survey.
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ISSN 0008-7475Verify ISSN ↗1938-4386Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Southern Appalachian Botanical Survey
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 517 / 541 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1982), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Castanea is Q4 in Plant Science (rank 517 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Castanea 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 4th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.131, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 30.
Castanea is published by Southern Appalachian Botanical Survey. Its print ISSN is 0008-7475 and its online ISSN is 1938-4386.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Castanea has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #435 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Castanea published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 30. 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 84 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (100%). 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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