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Seed Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. Published by International Seed Testing Association.
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ISSN 0251-0952Verify ISSN ↗1819-5717Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Seed Testing Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horticulture | 21 / 125 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 132 / 541 | 75th | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 113 / 422 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2024 (also 1993–1994, 1977), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Seed Science and Technology is Q1 in Horticulture (rank 21 of 125), Q1 in Plant Science (rank 132 of 541) and Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 113 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Seed Science and Technology 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.315, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 54.
Seed Science and Technology is published by International Seed Testing Association. Its print ISSN is 0251-0952 and its online ISSN is 1819-5717.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Seed Science and Technology has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 120 Scopus journals in Horticulture.
Seed Science and Technology published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 68. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (27.8%), India (8.6%) and Denmark (6.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.5 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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