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Plant Production Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1343-943XVerify ISSN ↗1349-1008Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 112 / 422 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Plant Production Science is Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 112 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Production Science 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.679, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 66.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,017 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 Production Science is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1343-943X and its online ISSN is 1349-1008.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Plant Production Science has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 2.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Plant Production Science published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 70. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (68.7%), China (6.7%) and Egypt (2.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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