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Reference Series in Phytochemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 2511-834XVerify ISSN ↗2511-8358Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 342 / 541 | 36th | Q3 |
| Toxicology | 106 / 131 | 19th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry | 371 / 448 | 17th | Q4 |
| Organic Chemistry | 179 / 215 | 16th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Reference Series in Phytochemistry is Q3 in Plant Science (rank 342 of 541), Q4 in Toxicology (rank 106 of 131) and Q4 in Biochemistry (rank 371 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Reference Series in Phytochemistry is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.213, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 28.
Reference Series in Phytochemistry is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 2511-834X and its online ISSN is 2511-8358.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Reference Series in Phytochemistry has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #251 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Reference Series in Phytochemistry published 179 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 284. 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.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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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