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Journal of Ginseng Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1226-8453Verify ISSN ↗2093-4947Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 4 / 115 | 96th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 7 / 144 | 95th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 43 / 325 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.1.
Journal of Ginseng Research is Q1 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 4 of 115), Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 7 of 144) and Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 43 of 325), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Ginseng Research 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 12.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.492, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 77.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. 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 Ginseng Research is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1226-8453 and its online ISSN is 2093-4947.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Ginseng Research has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 5.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Journal of Ginseng Research published 103 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 104. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (52.1%), South Korea (42.1%) and Vietnam (1.5%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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