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Plants People Planet

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 2018

ISSN2572-2611eISSN2572-2611

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

1.121

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.338

Total Worksi

856

Total Citationsi

11,410

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.15

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Plant Sciences; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Forestry; Horticulture; Plant Science.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2018

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications856

Publisher OrgWiley

OA Since2018

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

PorticoCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2572-2611 / 2572-2611

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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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?

Portico, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

2.5k

2019

3.9k

2020

1.4k

2021

1.5k

2022

117

1.3k

2023

157

1.3k

2024

186

549

2025

110

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 SystematicsQ1

ForestryQ1

HorticultureQ1

Plant ScienceQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Biodiversity ConservationEcologyPlant Sciences

Scopus Categories

ForestryPlant ScienceEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsHorticulture

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Plant and animal studiesAnimal and Plant Science EducationSpecies Distribution and Climate ChangeEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesMycorrhizal Fungi and Plant InteractionsPlant Parasitism and ResistancePlant Diversity and EvolutionUrban Green Space and HealthPlant Pathogens and Fungal DiseasesHorticultural and Viticultural Research

Frequently asked questions about Plants People Planet

Is Plants People Planet a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Plants People Planet: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Plants People Planet?

Plants People Planet 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 3.15.

Is Plants People Planet indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Plants People Planet is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Plants People Planet?