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Journal of Cotton Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2096-5044Verify ISSN ↗2523-3254Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 59 / 253 | 76th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 46 / 144 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Journal of Cotton Research is Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 59 of 253) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 46 of 144), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cotton Research is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.552, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Journal of Cotton Research is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2096-5044 and its online ISSN is 2523-3254.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Cotton Research has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 3.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Cotton Research published 43 papers in 2025. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (41.4%), India (29.8%) and Pakistan (7.9%).
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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