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New Crops is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.7), WoS ESCI. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2949-9526Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 4 / 422 | 99th | Q1 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 3 / 253 | 99th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 2 / 144 | 98th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 9 / 541 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.7.
New Crops is Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 4 of 422), Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 3 of 253) and Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 2 of 144), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
New Crops 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 16.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.787, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
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New Crops is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2949-9526.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
New Crops has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 14.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
New Crops published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 40. 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 92 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (82.2%), United States (5.4%) and Hong Kong SAR China (1.6%). 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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