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Plant Root is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Japanese Society for Root Research.
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ISSN 1881-6754Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society for Root Research
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 373 / 422 | 11th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 201 / 223 | 10th | Q4 |
| Plant Science | 489 / 541 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Plant Root is Q4 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 373 of 422), Q4 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 201 of 223) and Q4 in Plant Science (rank 489 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Root is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 11th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.208, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Plant Root is published by Japanese Society for Root Research. Its ISSN is 1881-6754.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Plant Root has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #254 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Plant Root published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 9. 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 28 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Japan (71.4%), Philippines (3.6%) and India (3.6%). 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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