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Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Brazilian Society of Plant Breeding.
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ISSN 1518-7853Verify ISSN ↗1984-7033Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brazilian Society of Plant Breeding
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 271 / 422 | 35th | Q3 |
| Biotechnology | 244 / 325 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology is Q3 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 271 of 422) and Q3 in Biotechnology (rank 244 of 325), by CiteScore 2025.
Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.331, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology is published by Brazilian Society of Plant Breeding. Its print ISSN is 1518-7853 and its online ISSN is 1984-7033.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #281 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 73. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (73.8%), India (4%) and China (3.3%). 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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