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Plant Health Progress

American Phytopathological Society · United States · Est. 2000

ISSN1535-1025eISSN1535-1025

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.362

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.837

Total Worksi

1,709

Total Citationsi

17,907

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.43

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Plant Sciences; Horticulture; Plant Science.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2000

FrequencyIrregular

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,709

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

American Phytopathological Society

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1535-1025 / 1535-1025

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

673

2019

949

2020

120

1.1k

2021

420

2022

312

2023

158

2024

252

102

2025

134

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

HorticultureQ2

Plant ScienceQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Plant Sciences

Scopus Categories

Plant ScienceHorticulture

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Plant Pathogens and Fungal DiseasesPlant Pathogens and ResistancePlant Disease Resistance and GeneticsPlant Disease Management TechniquesFungal Plant Pathogen ControlPlant Virus Research StudiesYeasts and Rust Fungi StudiesPowdery Mildew Fungal DiseasesNematode management and characterization studiesPlant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies

Frequently asked questions about Plant Health Progress

Is Plant Health Progress a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Plant Health Progress: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Plant Health Progress?

Plant Health Progress is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.43.

Is Plant Health Progress indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Plant Health Progress is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Plant Health Progress?