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Outlook on Agriculture is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0030-7270Verify ISSN ↗2043-6866Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 36 / 520 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Ecology | 92 / 491 | 81st | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 86 / 422 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present (also 1984–1989, 1979–1981, 1976, 1973), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Outlook on Agriculture is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 36 of 520), Q1 in Ecology (rank 92 of 491) and Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 86 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Outlook on Agriculture 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.759, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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.
Outlook on Agriculture is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0030-7270 and its online ISSN is 2043-6866.
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.
Outlook on Agriculture has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 2.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Outlook on Agriculture published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 49. 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 93 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (12%), Netherlands (8.7%) and Kenya (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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