Canadian Journal of Plant Science

Canadian Journal of Plant Science is published by Agricultural Institute of Canada and is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Crop Yield and Soil Fertility and Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems, together about 24% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science and Agronomy and Crop Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Published since 1957, the Canadian Journal of Plant Science is a bimonthly journal that contains new research on all aspects of plant science relevant to continental climate agriculture, including plant production and management (grain, forage, industrial, and alternative crops), horticulture (fruit, vegetable, ornamental, greenhouse, and alternative crops), and pest management (entomology, plant pathology, and weed science). Cross-disciplinary research in the application of technology, plant breeding, genetics, physiology, biotechnology, microbiology, soil management, economics, meteorology, post-harvest biology, and plant production systems is also published. Research that makes a significant contribution to the advancement of knowledge of crop, horticulture, and weed sciences (e.g., drought or stress resistance), but not directly applicable to the environmental regions of Canadian agriculture, may also be considered. The Journal also publishes reviews, letters to the editor, the abstracts of technical papers presented at the meetings of the sponsoring societies, and occasionally conference proceedings.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Agronomy

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

1.69LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

2.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.39LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.63LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

51LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

113OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4,080OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.17OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

11.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

62.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

92LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 1 monthLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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Publisher

Agricultural Institute of Canada

Country or region

CANADA

Language

Multi-Language

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1957

ISSN

0008-4220

Electronic ISSN

1918-1833

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub