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Planta Medica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
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ISSN 0032-0943Verify ISSN ↗1439-0221Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 30 / 115 | 74th | Q2 |
| Pharmaceutical Science | 74 / 191 | 61st | Q2 |
| Organic Chemistry | 92 / 215 | 57th | Q2 |
| Analytical Chemistry | 74 / 160 | 54th | Q2 |
| Pharmacology | 159 / 328 | 51st | Q2 |
| Drug Discovery | 83 / 161 | 48th | Q3 |
| Molecular Medicine | 114 / 179 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present (also 1961), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.7.
Planta Medica is Q2 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 30 of 115), Q2 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 74 of 191) and Q2 in Organic Chemistry (rank 92 of 215), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Planta Medica 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.456, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 145.
Planta Medica is published by Georg Thieme Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0032-0943 and its online ISSN is 1439-0221.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Planta Medica has an h-index of 166 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #68 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Planta Medica published 95 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 684. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (16.3%), India (10.5%) and Brazil (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0 per 1,000 papers). 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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