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Plant Biotechnology Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1467-7644Verify ISSN ↗1467-7652Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 6 / 422 | 98th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 11 / 541 | 98th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 23 / 325 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.2.
Plant Biotechnology Journal is Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 6 of 422), Q1 in Plant Science (rank 11 of 541) and Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 23 of 325), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Biotechnology 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 15.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.382, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 176.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,320 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.
Plant Biotechnology Journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1467-7644 and its online ISSN is 1467-7652.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Plant Biotechnology Journal has an h-index of 202 and a 2-year mean of 8.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Plant Biotechnology Journal published 604 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (56.2%), United States (13.7%) and Australia (2.7%). 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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