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Plant Species Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0913-557XVerify ISSN ↗1442-1984Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,750 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 356 / 736 | 51st | Q2 |
| Ecology | 249 / 491 | 49th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 275 / 541 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Plant Species Biology is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 356 of 736), Q3 in Ecology (rank 249 of 491) and Q3 in Plant Science (rank 275 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Plant Species Biology 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.440, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,750 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 Species Biology is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0913-557X and its online ISSN is 1442-1984.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Plant Species Biology has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #427 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Plant Species Biology published 68 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (43%), Brazil (12%) and Mexico (8.2%).
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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