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Oil Crop Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2096-2428Verify ISSN ↗2666-626XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 92 / 541 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 82 / 422 | 80th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 185 / 414 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Oil Crop Science is Q1 in Plant Science (rank 92 of 541), Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 82 of 422) and Q2 in Molecular Biology (rank 185 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Oil Crop 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.704, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 17.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Oil Crop Science is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2096-2428 and its online ISSN is 2666-626X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Oil Crop Science has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 2.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #124 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Oil Crop Science published 38 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (60.4%), Egypt (5%) and India (4.2%). 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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