Horticultural Plant Journal receives 2020 SCI impact factor – 3.032
Published 12 July, 2021
Horticultural Plant Journal (HPJ) received an impact factor* of 3.032 in June 2021, ranking it 5th in the horticulture category and 75th in the plant sciences category.
| JCR Category | Rank | Quartile |
| Horticulture | 5/37 | Q1 |
| Plant sciences | 75/235 | Q2 |
HPJ is an open access international journal publishing high-quality articles in all areas of horticulture sciences. Since the journal launched in 2015, it has published 33 journals issues featuring more than 210 papers. In addition to regular issues, HPJ also organises annual special issues on hot topics, such as horticultural plant genomes and abiotic stresses in horticultural plants. In 2022, the journal will publish a special issue on advances in cucurbitaceae research.
HPJ now is indexed in SCIE, Scopus, Biological Abstracts (BA) & BIOSIS Previews (BP), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), CABI Abstracts, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, CSCD, CNKI Global and CSTPCD.
The editorial office is grateful to members of editorial board, reviewers and authors who have contributed to HPJ, as well as the readers and supporters of the journal.
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*Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate Analytics, 2021