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Functional Plant Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE. Published by CSIRO Publishing.
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ISSN 1445-4408Verify ISSN ↗1445-4416Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 122 / 541 | 77th | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 103 / 422 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Functional Plant Biology is Q1 in Plant Science (rank 122 of 541) and Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 103 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Functional Plant Biology 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.672, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 148.
Functional Plant Biology is published by CSIRO Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1445-4408 and its online ISSN is 1445-4416.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Functional Plant Biology has an h-index of 152 and a 2-year mean of 3.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #87 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Functional Plant Biology published 111 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 137. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (23.4%), India (16.5%) and Egypt (6.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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