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Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum.
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ISSN 1018-7081Verify ISSN ↗2309-8694Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 352 / 520 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 406 / 541 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences is Q3 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 352 of 520) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 406 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.197, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 49.
Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences is published by Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum. Its print ISSN is 1018-7081 and its online ISSN is 2309-8694.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #350 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences published 193 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 328. 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Pakistan (39.7%), China (12.7%) and Türkiye (9.5%).
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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