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Plant Protection (Iran) is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz.
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ISSN 2588-5421Verify ISSN ↗2588-5936Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 227 / 253 | 10th | Q4 |
| Animal Science and Zoology | 474 / 520 | 8th | Q4 |
| Insect Science | 178 / 193 | 8th | Q4 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 695 / 736 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Plant Protection (Iran) is Q4 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 227 of 253), Q4 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 474 of 520) and Q4 in Insect Science (rank 178 of 193), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Plant Protection (Iran) is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4, 10th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.161, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Plant Protection (Iran) is published by Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. Its print ISSN is 2588-5421 and its online ISSN is 2588-5936.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Plant Protection (Iran) has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #221 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Plant Protection (Iran) published 14 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 38. 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 13 research articles (2021), authors are most often from Iran (100%). 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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