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Nordic Journal of Botany is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0107-055XVerify ISSN ↗1756-1051Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$2,950 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 403 / 736 | 45th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 299 / 541 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present (also 1981–2004), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Nordic Journal of Botany is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 403 of 736) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 299 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Nordic 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.342, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 45.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,950 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.
Nordic Journal of Botany is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0107-055X and its online ISSN is 1756-1051.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nordic Journal of Botany has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 0.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #387 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Nordic Journal of Botany published 164 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (24.7%), Brazil (19.5%) and China (8.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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