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Plant Methods is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1746-4811Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 45 / 541 | 91st | Q1 |
| Genetics | 46 / 357 | 87th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 70 / 325 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.7.
Plant Methods is Q1 in Plant Science (rank 45 of 541), Q1 in Genetics (rank 46 of 357) and Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 70 of 325), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Methods 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 8.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.993, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 113.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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 Methods is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1746-4811.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Plant Methods has an h-index of 135 and a 2-year mean of 7.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Plant Methods published 169 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 195. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (36.8%), United States (10.6%) and Japan (7%).
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 1 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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