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New Zealand Journal of Botany is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0028-825XVerify ISSN ↗1175-8643Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 269 / 736 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Plant Science | 212 / 541 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
New Zealand Journal of Botany is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 269 of 736) and Q2 in Plant Science (rank 212 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
New Zealand Journal of Botany 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.363, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
New Zealand Journal of Botany is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0028-825X and its online ISSN is 1175-8643.
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.
New Zealand Journal of Botany has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 2.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #172 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
New Zealand Journal of Botany published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 85. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (21.3%), New Zealand (14%) and India (11.5%).
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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