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Journal of Crop Breeding is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9), DOAJ. Published by Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University.
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ISSN 2228-6128Verify ISSN ↗2676-4628Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 357 / 422 | 15th | Q4 |
| Plant Science | 467 / 541 | 13th | Q4 |
| Biotechnology | 285 / 325 | 12th | Q4 |
| Genetics | 335 / 357 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Crop Breeding is Q4 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 357 of 422), Q4 in Plant Science (rank 467 of 541) and Q4 in Biotechnology (rank 285 of 325), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Crop Breeding 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 0.9, quartile Q4, 15th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.232, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Journal of Crop Breeding is published by Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University. Its print ISSN is 2228-6128 and its online ISSN is 2676-4628.
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.
Journal of Crop Breeding has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #370 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Journal of Crop Breeding published 80 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 101. 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 (2021–2022), authors are most often from Iran (96.3%), Germany (1%) and Ethiopia (0.5%). 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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