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International Journal of Phytoremediation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1522-6514Verify ISSN ↗1549-7879Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 69 / 541 | 87th | Q1 |
| Pollution | 45 / 180 | 75th | Q1 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 54 / 157 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1994), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
International Journal of Phytoremediation is Q1 in Plant Science (rank 69 of 541), Q1 in Pollution (rank 45 of 180) and Q2 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 54 of 157), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Phytoremediation 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.627, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 116.
International Journal of Phytoremediation is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1522-6514 and its online ISSN is 1549-7879.
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.
International Journal of Phytoremediation has an h-index of 101 and a 2-year mean of 2.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #125 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
International Journal of Phytoremediation published 211 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 230. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (23.6%), China (22.2%) and Pakistan (11.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (2.8 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.
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