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Plant Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 1479-2621Verify ISSN ↗1479-263XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 278 / 422 | 34th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 368 / 541 | 31st | Q3 |
| Genetics | 309 / 357 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Plant Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation is Q3 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 278 of 422), Q3 in Plant Science (rank 368 of 541) and Q4 in Genetics (rank 309 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.275, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 47.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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 Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 1479-2621 and its online ISSN is 1479-263X.
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 Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 1.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #186 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Plant Genetic Resources: Characterisation and Utilisation published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 81. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (36%), China (8.2%) and Iran (7.2%).
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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