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Italian Botanist is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), DOAJ. Published by Pensoft Publishers.
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ISSN 2531-4033Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 419 / 736 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 312 / 541 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Italian Botanist is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 419 of 736) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 312 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Italian Botanist 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, 43rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.318, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$269 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Italian Botanist is published by Pensoft Publishers. Its ISSN is 2531-4033.
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.
Italian Botanist has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 1.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #342 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Italian Botanist published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 29. 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 92 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Italy (73.6%), Uzbekistan (2.9%) and Iran (2.7%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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