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South African Journal of Plant and Soil is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0257-1862Verify ISSN ↗2167-034XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 294 / 491 | 40th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 331 / 541 | 38th | Q3 |
| Soil Science | 107 / 167 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
South African Journal of Plant and Soil is Q3 in Ecology (rank 294 of 491), Q3 in Plant Science (rank 331 of 541) and Q3 in Soil Science (rank 107 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal of Plant and Soil is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.245, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 30.
South African Journal of Plant and Soil is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0257-1862 and its online ISSN is 2167-034X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
South African Journal of Plant and Soil has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #288 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
South African Journal of Plant and Soil published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 61. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (69.1%), Ethiopia (5.7%) and Benin (2.4%). 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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