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Photosynthetica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Institute of Experimental Botany, ASCR.
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ISSN 0300-3604Verify ISSN ↗1573-9058Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute of Experimental Botany, ASCR
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 162 / 541 | 70th | Q2 |
| Physiology | 100 / 196 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1988–1989, 1985, 1983, 1981, 1979), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.2.
Photosynthetica is Q2 in Plant Science (rank 162 of 541) and Q3 in Physiology (rank 100 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Photosynthetica 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.479, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 98.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,140 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.
Photosynthetica is published by Institute of Experimental Botany, ASCR. Its print ISSN is 0300-3604 and its online ISSN is 1573-9058.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Photosynthetica has an h-index of 107 and a 2-year mean of 2.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #142 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Photosynthetica published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 131. 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 (21%), United States (16.6%) and Russia (9%).
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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