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Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by American Society for Horticultural Science.
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ISSN 0003-1062Verify ISSN ↗2327-9788Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society for Horticultural Science
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horticulture | 52 / 125 | 58th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 264 / 357 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1991, 1983–1989, 1974–1981), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science is Q2 in Horticulture (rank 52 of 125) and Q3 in Genetics (rank 264 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the American Society for Horticultural 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 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.381, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 102.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,500 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 the American Society for Horticultural Science is published by American Society for Horticultural Science. Its print ISSN is 0003-1062 and its online ISSN is 2327-9788.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science has an h-index of 129 and a 2-year mean of 1.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 120 Scopus journals in Horticulture.
Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 56. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (59.9%), China (21.3%) and Japan (4.6%). 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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