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Crop Design is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2772-8994Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 25 / 253 | 90th | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 66 / 422 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
Crop Design is Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 25 of 253) and Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 66 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Crop Design is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 7.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.930, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,600 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Crop Design is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2772-8994.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Crop Design has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 5.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Crop Design published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 24. 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 89 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (50%), India (16.8%) and Ethiopia (3.4%). 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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