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Plant Ecology and Diversity is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1755-0874Verify ISSN ↗1755-1668Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 393 / 736 | 46th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 294 / 541 | 45th | Q3 |
| Ecology | 270 / 491 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
Plant Ecology and Diversity is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 393 of 736), Q3 in Plant Science (rank 294 of 541) and Q3 in Ecology (rank 270 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Ecology and 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.418, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 49.
Plant Ecology and Diversity is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1755-0874 and its online ISSN is 1755-1668.
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 Ecology and Diversity has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 1.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #283 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Plant Ecology and Diversity published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 57. 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (17.2%), Brazil (12.9%) and United States (9.1%).
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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