Edinburgh Journal of Botany

ISSN 0960-4286 · Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh · United Kingdom · active 1976–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile (2025)
Q3
Cites per paper (2y)
0.3
SJR
0.351
h-index
42

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 18 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Edinburgh Journal of Botany is Q3 in all 2 of its subject categories.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Edinburgh Journal of Botany in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Plant ScienceQ3#289 of 566
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ3#431 of 752
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
0.84
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
12

OpenAlex counts about 0.3 citations per paper over two years; Scopus, through Scimago, counts 0.84 per document. The two databases index different journals, documents and citations, so the figures differ. Neither is a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor.

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Edinburgh Journal of Botany is Q3 in all 2 of its Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Plant Science: Q3, #289 of 566), with SJR 0.351 (Scimago) and an h-index of 42 (OpenAlex). Listed in DOAJ, Scopus.

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Responding time

Submission to publication
~51 wk
DOAJ self-reported

Turnaround figures are indicative, not a guarantee: DOAJ values are self-reported by the journal (average weeks, submission to publication); library estimates are medians of the received/accepted dates printed in papers we hold. Editorial times vary by article type and season — confirm on the journal’s own site.

Indexing & access

Indexed in
DOAJScopus
Access status:
gold. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.
Article processing charge
Free to publish — DOAJ lists no article processing charge (APC).

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Scope

plantdiversityevolutionecologybehaviorsystematicsfungalspeciesdescriptionsmolecularbiologyanimal

Frequently asked

Is Edinburgh Journal of Botany a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Edinburgh Journal of Botany. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in DOAJ, Scopus, which is a positive signal.

Is Edinburgh Journal of Botany indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Edinburgh Journal of Botany appears in: DOAJ, Scopus. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Edinburgh Journal of Botany?

Papers in Edinburgh Journal of Botany are cited about 0.3 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 42. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Edinburgh Journal of Botany (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Edinburgh Journal of Botany is Q3 in all 2 of its subject categories. By category: Plant Science: Q3, #289 of 566; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: Q3, #431 of 752. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Edinburgh Journal of Botany is cited about 0.3 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 42.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Edinburgh Journal of Botany?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Edinburgh Journal of Botany. The open equivalent is its Scimago quartile, Q3, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Edinburgh Journal of Botany open access?

Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

Is Edinburgh Journal of Botany free to publish in?

Free to publish — DOAJ lists no article processing charge (APC). So there is no fee for authors to publish in Edinburgh Journal of Botany. Fee policies change — confirm on the journal's own site before relying on it.

How long does Edinburgh Journal of Botany take to publish a paper?

Submission to publication for Edinburgh Journal of Botany takes about ~51 wk — DOAJ self-reported. Treat it as indicative rather than a guarantee: editorial times vary by article type, reviewer availability and season, and a self-reported figure is the journal's own. We do not hold a peer-review acceptance rate for Edinburgh Journal of Botany.

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