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Journal of Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), 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 1049-6475Verify ISSN ↗1540-3580Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 49 / 115 | 57th | Q2 |
| Pharmacology | 220 / 328 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Journal of Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants is Q2 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 49 of 115) and Q3 in Pharmacology (rank 220 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.267, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 38.
Journal of Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1049-6475 and its online ISSN is 1540-3580.
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 Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 1.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Journal of Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 44. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (54.3%), Morocco (3.7%) and Ethiopia (3.7%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (3.6 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.
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