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Tropical Plant Pathology

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH · Switzerland · Est. 2008

ISSN1982-5676

SJR Q2✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2016-02-26). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is not open access. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 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

0.499

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.945

Total Worksi

1,182

Total Citationsi

15,433

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.50

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Agronomy and Crop Science; Plant Science.

General Information

Country / RegionSwitzerland

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2008

Annual Volume~ 78 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,182

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

Region🌍 Global South

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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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1982-5676

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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?

N/A

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

572

2019

1.9k

2020

984

2021

441

2022

541

2023

233

2024

118

2025

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.

Agronomy and Crop ScienceQ2

Plant ScienceQ2

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Agronomy and Crop SciencePlant Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Plant Pathogens and Fungal DiseasesPlant Pathogenic Bacteria StudiesPlant-Microbe Interactions and ImmunityPlant Virus Research StudiesPlant Disease Resistance and GeneticsNematode management and characterization studiesPlant Pathogens and ResistanceBanana Cultivation and ResearchPhytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogensYeasts and Rust Fungi Studies

Frequently asked questions about Tropical Plant Pathology

Is Tropical Plant Pathology a predatory journal?

Tropical Plant Pathology was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is not open access" (2016-02-26). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Tropical Plant Pathology?

Tropical Plant Pathology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.499.

Is Tropical Plant Pathology indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Tropical Plant Pathology is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Tropical Plant Pathology?