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Legume Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Agricultural Research Communication Centre.
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ISSN 0250-5371Verify ISSN ↗0976-0571Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Agricultural Research Communication Centre
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 239 / 422 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 314 / 541 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Soil Science | 101 / 167 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Legume Research is Q3 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 239 of 422), Q3 in Plant Science (rank 314 of 541) and Q3 in Soil Science (rank 101 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Legume Research 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.382, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
Legume Research is published by Agricultural Research Communication Centre. Its print ISSN is 0250-5371 and its online ISSN is 0976-0571.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Legume Research has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #297 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Legume Research published 211 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 321. 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.
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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