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Journal of Medicinal Plants and By-Products is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Institute of Medicinal Plants, ACECR.
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ISSN 2322-1399Verify ISSN ↗2588-3739Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Medicinal Plants, ACECR
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 175 / 253 | 31st | Q3 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 318 / 422 | 24th | Q4 |
| Horticulture | 96 / 125 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Plant Science | 419 / 541 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of Medicinal Plants and By-Products is Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 175 of 253), Q4 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 318 of 422) and Q4 in Horticulture (rank 96 of 125), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Medicinal Plants and By-Products 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.196, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Medicinal Plants and By-Products is published by Institute of Medicinal Plants, ACECR. Its print ISSN is 2322-1399 and its online ISSN is 2588-3739.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Medicinal Plants and By-Products has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #221 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Medicinal Plants and By-Products published 45 papers in 2021. 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 44 research articles (2021), authors are most often from Iran (92%), Nigeria (2.3%) and Mexico (2.3%). 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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