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Tropical Plant Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1935-9756Verify ISSN ↗1935-9764Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | 288 / 541 | 46th | Q3 |
| Genetics | 284 / 357 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Tropical Plant Biology is Q3 in Plant Science (rank 288 of 541) and Q4 in Genetics (rank 284 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Tropical Plant Biology 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 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.395, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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.
Tropical Plant Biology is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1935-9756 and its online ISSN is 1935-9764.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Tropical Plant Biology has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #212 of 521 Scopus journals in Plant Science.
Tropical Plant Biology published 70 papers in 2025. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (31.1%), China (21.6%) and Brazil (15.3%).
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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