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Tropical Agriculture is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by University of the West Indies.
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ISSN 0041-3216Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of the West Indies
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 265 / 314 | 15th | Q4 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 374 / 422 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present (also 1985, 1982–1983, 1979–1980), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Tropical Agriculture is Q4 in Development (rank 265 of 314) and Q4 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 374 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Tropical Agriculture 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 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 15th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.167, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 21.
Tropical Agriculture is published by University of the West Indies. Its ISSN is 0041-3216.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Tropical Agriculture has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #276 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Tropical Agriculture published 25 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 542. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (63%), Indonesia (5.2%) and Nigeria (5.2%). 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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