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Journal of General Plant Pathology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1345-2630Verify ISSN ↗1610-739XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$4,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 267 / 541 | 50th | Q2 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 214 / 422 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001 (also 2004–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Journal of General Plant Pathology is Q2 in Plant Science (rank 267 of 541) and Q3 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 214 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of General Plant Pathology 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.351, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,090 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of General Plant Pathology is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1345-2630 and its online ISSN is 1610-739X.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of General Plant Pathology has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 1.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #220 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Journal of General Plant Pathology published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 73. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (79.3%), China (3.9%) and Indonesia (2.6%). 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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