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Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Julius Kuhn-Institut Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants.
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ISSN 1439-040XVerify ISSN ↗1613-9216Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Julius Kuhn-Institut Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 356 / 541 | 34th | Q3 |
| Food Science | 288 / 420 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality is Q3 in Plant Science (rank 356 of 541) and Q3 in Food Science (rank 288 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.207, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 52.
Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality is published by Julius Kuhn-Institut Federal Research Center for Cultivated Plants. Its print ISSN is 1439-040X and its online ISSN is 1613-9216.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #477 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality published 10 papers in 2000. 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.
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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