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Journal of Oil Palm Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7). Published by Lembaga Minyak Sawit Malaysia.
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ISSN 1511-2780Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lembaga Minyak Sawit Malaysia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 208 / 422 | 50th | Q2 |
| Food Science | 236 / 420 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 222 / 345 | 35th | Q3 |
| Biomaterials | 108 / 146 | 26th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Oil Palm Research is Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 208 of 422), Q3 in Food Science (rank 236 of 420) and Q3 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 222 of 345), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Oil Palm Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2, 50th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.235, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 37.
Journal of Oil Palm Research is published by Lembaga Minyak Sawit Malaysia. Its ISSN is 1511-2780.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Oil Palm Research has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #321 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Journal of Oil Palm Research published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 115. 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 28 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (55.4%), Indonesia (25%) and Brazil (7.1%). 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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