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Plant Direct is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 2475-4455Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 149 / 736 | 79th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 129 / 541 | 76th | Q1 |
| Ecology | 118 / 491 | 76th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 43 / 144 | 70th | Q2 |
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 4.8.
Plant Direct is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 149 of 736), Q1 in Plant Science (rank 129 of 541) and Q1 in Ecology (rank 118 of 491), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Plant Direct 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.849, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,840 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 Direct is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2475-4455.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Plant Direct has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 2.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #148 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Plant Direct published 119 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.3%), China (13.4%) and Japan (8%).
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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