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Plant, Cell and Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0140-7791Verify ISSN ↗1365-3040Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$5,440 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 31 / 541 | 94th | Q1 |
| Physiology | 17 / 196 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.2.
Plant, Cell and Environment is Q1 in Plant Science (rank 31 of 541) and Q1 in Physiology (rank 17 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant, Cell and Environment 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 10.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.160, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 259.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,440 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, Cell and Environment is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0140-7791 and its online ISSN is 1365-3040.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Plant, Cell and Environment has an h-index of 311 and a 2-year mean of 6.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Plant, Cell and Environment published 713 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (64.2%), Australia (3.9%) and India (3.8%). 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. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). 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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