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Plant Diversity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.3), 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 KeAi Publishing Communications Ltd..
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ISSN 2096-2703Verify ISSN ↗2468-2659Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Publishing Communications Ltd.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 30 / 736 | 95th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 28 / 541 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.3.
Plant Diversity is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 30 of 736) and Q1 in Plant Science (rank 28 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Diversity 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 10.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.422, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 46.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Plant Diversity is published by KeAi Publishing Communications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2096-2703 and its online ISSN is 2468-2659.
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 Diversity has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 4.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Plant Diversity published 97 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.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.4 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.
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