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Plant Biotechnology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology.
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ISSN 1342-4580Verify ISSN ↗1347-6114Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 283 / 541 | 47th | Q3 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 224 / 422 | 47th | Q3 |
| Biotechnology | 221 / 325 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Plant Biotechnology is Q3 in Plant Science (rank 283 of 541), Q3 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 224 of 422) and Q3 in Biotechnology (rank 221 of 325), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Biotechnology 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.429, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 55.
Plant Biotechnology is published by Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology. Its print ISSN is 1342-4580 and its online ISSN is 1347-6114.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Plant Biotechnology has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 1.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #189 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Plant Biotechnology published 82 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (84.5%), China (3%) and Indonesia (1.5%). 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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