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Journal of Fruit Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), DOAJ. Published by Editorial Department of Scientia Agricultura Sinica.
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ISSN 1009-9980Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Department of Scientia Agricultura Sinica
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 329 / 491 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 507 / 736 | 31st | Q3 |
| Horticulture | 87 / 125 | 30th | Q3 |
| Food Science | 297 / 420 | 29th | Q3 |
| Biotechnology | 249 / 325 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Genetics | 313 / 357 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Fruit Science is Q3 in Ecology (rank 329 of 491), Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 507 of 736) and Q3 in Horticulture (rank 87 of 125), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Fruit Science 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 1.5, quartile Q3, 33rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.228, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Journal of Fruit Science is published by Editorial Department of Scientia Agricultura Sinica. Its ISSN is 1009-9980.
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 Fruit Science has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #426 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Journal of Fruit Science published 3 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 210. 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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