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International Journal of Secondary Metabolite is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), DOAJ. Published by Pamukkale University.
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ISSN 2148-6905Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pamukkale University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 318 / 541 | 41st | Q3 |
| Biotechnology | 231 / 325 | 28th | Q3 |
| Biophysics | 119 / 155 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Biochemistry | 359 / 448 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
International Journal of Secondary Metabolite is Q3 in Plant Science (rank 318 of 541), Q3 in Biotechnology (rank 231 of 325) and Q4 in Biophysics (rank 119 of 155), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Secondary Metabolite is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.277, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
International Journal of Secondary Metabolite is published by Pamukkale University. Its ISSN is 2148-6905.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Journal of Secondary Metabolite has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 1.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #245 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
International Journal of Secondary Metabolite published 79 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (51%), India (8.2%) and Indonesia (8.2%). 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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