Plant Cell Reports

ISSN 0721-7714 · Springer Science+Business Media · Germany · active 1981–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile (2025)
Q1
Cites per paper (2y)
5.2
SJR
1.385
h-index
175

“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 25 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Plant Cell Reports is Q1 in all 3 of its subject categories.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Plant Cell Reports in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Agronomy and Crop ScienceQ1#27 of 428
Plant ScienceQ1#44 of 566
Medicine (miscellaneous)Q1#289 of 2,517
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
5.47
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
286

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).

Plant Cell Reports is Q1 in all 3 of its Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Agronomy and Crop Science: Q1, #27 of 428), with SJR 1.385 (Scimago) and an h-index of 175 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Responding time

Submission to acceptance
78 days (median)
Estimated from our library (150 papers)
Acceptance to publication
11 days (median)
Estimated from our library (141 papers)
Submission to publication
91 days (median)
Estimated from our library (141 papers)

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
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
Access status:
hybrid. 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.

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Scope

planttissuecultureregenerationmolecularbiologytransgenicplantsbiotechnologyreproductivegeneticmutation

Frequently asked

Is Plant Cell Reports a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Plant Cell Reports. 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 Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Plant Cell Reports indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Plant Cell Reports appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Plant Cell Reports?

Papers in Plant Cell Reports are cited about 5.2 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 175. 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 Plant Cell Reports (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Plant Cell Reports is Q1 in all 3 of its subject categories. By category: Agronomy and Crop Science: Q1, #27 of 428; Plant Science: Q1, #44 of 566; Medicine (miscellaneous): Q1, #289 of 2,517. 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; Plant Cell Reports is cited about 5.2 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 175.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Plant Cell Reports?

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 Plant Cell Reports. The open equivalent is its Scimago quartile, Q1, 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 Plant Cell Reports open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". 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.

How long does Plant Cell Reports take to publish a paper?

Submission to acceptance for Plant Cell Reports takes about 78 days (median) — Estimated from our library (n=150 papers). 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 Plant Cell Reports.

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