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Plants People Planet is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 2572-2611Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horticulture | 10 / 125 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 67 / 736 | 90th | Q1 |
| Forestry | 21 / 181 | 88th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 73 / 541 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.9.
Plants People Planet is Q1 in Horticulture (rank 10 of 125), Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 67 of 736) and Q1 in Forestry (rank 21 of 181), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Plants People Planet 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 6.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.121, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 41.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,180 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.
Plants People Planet is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its ISSN is 2572-2611.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Plants People Planet has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 4.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 120 Scopus journals in Horticulture.
Plants People Planet published 186 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 (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (17.3%), United States (16.6%) and Germany (6%).
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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