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South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by South African Society for Enology and Viticulture.
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ISSN 0253-939XVerify ISSN ↗2224-7904Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Society for Enology and Viticulture
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horticulture | 60 / 125 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Food Science | 256 / 420 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–2005 (also 2007–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture is Q2 in Horticulture (rank 60 of 125) and Q3 in Food Science (rank 256 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.420, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 42.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$271 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.
South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture is published by South African Society for Enology and Viticulture. Its print ISSN is 0253-939X and its online ISSN is 2224-7904.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 1.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #63 of 120 Scopus journals in Horticulture.
South African Journal of Enology and Viticulture published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 319. 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 79 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (57%), India (5.1%) and Spain (4.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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