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Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy

Korean Society of Plant Taxonomists · South Korea · Est. 1949

ISSN2466-1546

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.33

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.692

Total Worksi

1,484

Total Citationsi

4,778

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.54

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Plant Sciences; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Plant Science.

General Information

Country / RegionSouth Korea

Primary LanguageKorean

1st Year Published1949

Annual Volume~ 36 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,484

OA Since2017

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?

Korean Society of Plant Taxonomists

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2466-1546

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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?

Korean

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

2019

173

2020

185

2021

2022

106

2023

2024

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.

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ3

Plant ScienceQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Plant Sciences

Scopus Categories

Plant ScienceEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Ecology and Conservation StudiesPlant and animal studiesPlant and Fungal Species DescriptionsPlant Diversity and EvolutionAgriculture, Soil, Plant ScienceBotany, Ecology, and Taxonomy StudiesPlant Pathogens and Fungal DiseasesFood Quality and Safety StudiesPlant Taxonomy and PhylogeneticsFern and Epiphyte Biology

Frequently asked questions about Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy

Is Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy: 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 Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy?

Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy 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 0.54.

Is Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy?