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Plant Disease is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE. Published by American Phytopathological Society.
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ISSN 0191-2917Verify ISSN ↗1943-7692Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Phytopathological Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 125 / 541 | 76th | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 105 / 422 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1981), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Plant Disease is Q1 in Plant Science (rank 125 of 541) and Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 105 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Disease 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 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.691, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 141.
Plant Disease is published by American Phytopathological Society. Its print ISSN is 0191-2917 and its online ISSN is 1943-7692.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Plant Disease has an h-index of 178 and a 2-year mean of 1.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #256 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Plant Disease published 954 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 1,114. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (42.8%), United States (26.6%) and South Korea (6.2%).
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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