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Plant Molecular Biology Reporter is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0735-9640Verify ISSN ↗1572-9818Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 256 / 541 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 332 / 414 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Plant Molecular Biology Reporter is Q2 in Plant Science (rank 256 of 541) and Q4 in Molecular Biology (rank 332 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.484, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 76.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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 Molecular Biology Reporter is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0735-9640 and its online ISSN is 1572-9818.
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 Molecular Biology Reporter has an h-index of 109 and a 2-year mean of 1.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #195 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Plant Molecular Biology Reporter published 135 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.
In its latest 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (33.3%), India (22.4%) and South Korea (4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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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