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Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 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 Elsevier GmbH.
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ISSN 0367-2530Verify ISSN ↗1618-0585Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 238 / 736 | 67th | Q2 |
| Plant Science | 190 / 541 | 64th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 178 / 491 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1980–1988, 1975–1976), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 238 of 736), Q2 in Plant Science (rank 190 of 541) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 178 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 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 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.590, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 74.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,900 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.
Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants is published by Elsevier GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0367-2530 and its online ISSN is 1618-0585.
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.
Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants has an h-index of 91 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #291 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants published 161 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 182. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Brazil (22.7%), China (18.7%) and Mexico (8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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