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Plant Protection Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
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ISSN 1212-2580Verify ISSN ↗1805-9341Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 175 / 422 | 58th | Q2 |
| Soil Science | 80 / 167 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Plant Protection Science is Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 175 of 422) and Q2 in Soil Science (rank 80 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Protection 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.331, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$609 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 Protection Science is published by Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Its print ISSN is 1212-2580 and its online ISSN is 1805-9341.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Plant Protection Science has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #174 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Plant Protection Science published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 52. 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 93 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (15.9%), Czechia (12.7%) and China (10.9%).
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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