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Horticultural Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Korean Society for Horticultural Science.
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ISSN 1226-8763Verify ISSN ↗2465-8588Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society for Horticultural Science
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horticulture | 62 / 125 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present (also 2008), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Horticultural Science and Technology is Q2 in Horticulture (rank 62 of 125), by CiteScore 2025.
Horticultural Science and Technology 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.310, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
Horticultural Science and Technology is published by Korean Society for Horticultural Science. Its print ISSN is 1226-8763 and its online ISSN is 2465-8588.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Horticultural Science and Technology has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 120 Scopus journals in Horticulture.
Horticultural Science and Technology published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 91. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (83.3%), China (9.4%) and Indonesia (2.1%). 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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