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Pakistan Journal of Botany is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Pakistan Botanical Society.
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ISSN 0556-3321Verify ISSN ↗2070-3368Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pakistan Botanical Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 303 / 541 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1984–1986, 1978), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Pakistan Journal of Botany is Q3 in Plant Science (rank 303 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Pakistan 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 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.256, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 81.
Pakistan Journal of Botany is published by Pakistan Botanical Society. Its print ISSN is 0556-3321 and its online ISSN is 2070-3368.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pakistan Journal of Botany has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #352 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Pakistan Journal of Botany published 225 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 324. 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 32 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Pakistan (32.6%), Saudi Arabia (19.5%) and China (16.7%).
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.
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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