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Phytobiomes Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by American Phytopathological Society.
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ISSN 2471-2906Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Phytopathological Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 143 / 736 | 80th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 127 / 541 | 76th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 116 / 491 | 76th | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 106 / 422 | 75th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 237 / 414 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Phytobiomes Journal is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 143 of 736), Q1 in Plant Science (rank 127 of 541) and Q1 in Ecology (rank 116 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Phytobiomes Journal 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.822, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 36.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,660 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.
Phytobiomes Journal is published by American Phytopathological Society. Its ISSN is 2471-2906.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Phytobiomes Journal has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 2.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #152 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Phytobiomes Journal published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 55. 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 92 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (54.5%), Canada (6.9%) and France (5.3%). 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.
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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