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Journal of Pesticide Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Pesticide Science Society of Japan.
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ISSN 1348-589XVerify ISSN ↗1349-0923Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pesticide Science Society of Japan
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 64 / 193 | 67th | Q2 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 105 / 151 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Pesticide Science is Q2 in Insect Science (rank 64 of 193) and Q3 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 105 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Pesticide Science 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.400, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 51.
Journal of Pesticide Science is published by Pesticide Science Society of Japan. Its print ISSN is 1348-589X and its online ISSN is 1349-0923.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Pesticide Science has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 1.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Journal of Pesticide Science published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 52. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (83.6%), China (3.6%) and France (2.1%). 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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