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Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0010-3624Verify ISSN ↗1532-2416Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 158 / 422 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Soil Science | 73 / 167 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis is Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 158 of 422) and Q2 in Soil Science (rank 73 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.385, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 89.
Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0010-3624 and its online ISSN is 1532-2416.
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.
Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis has an h-index of 135 and a 2-year mean of 2.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #107 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis published 147 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 291. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (26.8%), United States (12.3%) and Brazil (9.5%).
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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