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Legume Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 2639-6181Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 38 / 541 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Food Science | 56 / 420 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.1.
Legume Science is Q1 in Plant Science (rank 38 of 541) and Q1 in Food Science (rank 56 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
Legume Science is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 9.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.840, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,080 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.
Legume Science is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2639-6181.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Legume Science has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 2.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Legume Science published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 69. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (13.5%), Ethiopia (6.8%) and Iran (6.8%).
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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