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Horticulture Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Japanese Society for Horticultural Science.
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ISSN 2189-0102Verify ISSN ↗2189-0110Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society for Horticultural Science
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horticulture | 57 / 125 | 54th | Q2 |
| Plant Science | 262 / 541 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Horticulture Journal is Q2 in Horticulture (rank 57 of 125) and Q2 in Plant Science (rank 262 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Horticulture Journal 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.390, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 47.
Horticulture Journal is published by Japanese Society for Horticultural Science. Its print ISSN is 2189-0102 and its online ISSN is 2189-0110.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Horticulture Journal has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 120 Scopus journals in Horticulture.
Horticulture Journal published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 78. 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (81.1%), Thailand (5.5%) and Uganda (3.3%). 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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