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Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), WoS SCIE. Published by Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences.
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ISSN 0021-3551Verify ISSN ↗2185-8896Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 401 / 520 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 338 / 422 | 20th | Q4 |
| Ecology | 397 / 491 | 19th | Q4 |
| Biotechnology | 276 / 325 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1987, 1983, 1977–1978, 1973–1974), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly is Q4 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 401 of 520), Q4 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 338 of 422) and Q4 in Ecology (rank 397 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly 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 1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.164, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 42.
Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly is published by Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences. Its print ISSN is 0021-3551 and its online ISSN is 2185-8896.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 0.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #361 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 56. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (90.9%), Uganda (2%) and Vietnam (1.5%). 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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