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Journal of Crop Improvement is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1542-7528Verify ISSN ↗1542-7536Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 196 / 541 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 166 / 422 | 60th | Q2 |
| Soil Science | 77 / 167 | 54th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 224 / 357 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of Crop Improvement is Q2 in Plant Science (rank 196 of 541), Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 166 of 422) and Q2 in Soil Science (rank 77 of 167), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Crop Improvement 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.305, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 52.
Journal of Crop Improvement is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1542-7528 and its online ISSN is 1542-7536.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Crop Improvement has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 1.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #232 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Journal of Crop Improvement published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 66. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from India (22%), United States (13.7%) and Nigeria (5.3%).
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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