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Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.
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ISSN 2519-559XVerify ISSN ↗2616-4809Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 364 / 541 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 511 / 755 | 32nd | Q3 |
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 1.6.
Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development is Q3 in Plant Science (rank 364 of 541) and Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 511 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.215, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$575 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 Medicinal Plants for Economic Development is published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2519-559X and its online ISSN is 2616-4809.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #329 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 24. 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 80 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (77.9%), Nigeria (9.4%) and India (2.5%). 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. 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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