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Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.1). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Indian Society of Soil Science.
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ISSN 0019-638XVerify ISSN ↗0974-0228Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Indian Society of Soil Science
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 337 / 422 | 20th | Q4 |
| Soil Science | 141 / 167 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–1988 (also 2011–present), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.1.
Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science is Q4 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 337 of 422) and Q4 in Soil Science (rank 141 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science 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 1.1, quartile Q4, 20th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.260, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 19.
Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science is published by Indian Society of Soil Science. Its print ISSN is 0019-638X and its online ISSN is 0974-0228.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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 the Indian Society of Soil Science has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #321 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Journal of the Indian Society of Soil Science published 49 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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 71 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (89.7%), Switzerland (2.3%) and Spain (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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