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Systematic Botany is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by American Society of Plant Taxonomists Inc..
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ISSN 0363-6445Verify ISSN ↗1548-2324Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society of Plant Taxonomists Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 370 / 736 | 49th | Q3 |
| Plant Science | 282 / 541 | 47th | Q3 |
| Genetics | 278 / 357 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Systematic Botany is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 370 of 736), Q3 in Plant Science (rank 282 of 541) and Q4 in Genetics (rank 278 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Systematic Botany 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.305, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 87.
Systematic Botany is published by American Society of Plant Taxonomists Inc. Its print ISSN is 0363-6445 and its online ISSN is 1548-2324.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Systematic Botany has an h-index of 119 and a 2-year mean of 1.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #350 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Systematic Botany published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 105. 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 90 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (34.4%), United States (27.7%) and Mexico (7.6%).
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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