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Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by American Phytopathological Society.
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ISSN 0894-0282Verify ISSN ↗1943-7706Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Phytopathological Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 62 / 422 | 85th | Q1 |
| Physiology | 43 / 196 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.3.
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions is Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 62 of 422) and Q1 in Physiology (rank 43 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 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 7.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.240, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 190.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions is published by American Phytopathological Society. Its print ISSN is 0894-0282 and its online ISSN is 1943-7706.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions has an h-index of 223 and a 2-year mean of 3.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions published 99 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 159. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (39.7%), Germany (7.1%) and United Kingdom (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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