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Environmental and Experimental Botany is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0098-8472Verify ISSN ↗1873-7307Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 26 / 736 | 96th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 24 / 541 | 95th | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 25 / 422 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.8.
Environmental and Experimental Botany is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 26 of 736), Q1 in Plant Science (rank 24 of 541) and Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 25 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Environmental and Experimental Botany 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 10.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.241, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 183.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Environmental and Experimental Botany is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0098-8472 and its online ISSN is 1873-7307.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Environmental and Experimental Botany has an h-index of 200 and a 2-year mean of 6.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Environmental and Experimental Botany published 203 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 367. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (52.1%), Italy (6.7%) and United States (4.7%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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