Folia Horticulturae

Folia Horticulturae is published by De Gruyter Open Ltd. and is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies, Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation and Horticultural and Viticultural Research, together about 34.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Folia Horticulturae is an international, scientific journal published in English. It covers a broad research spectrum of aspects related to horticultural science that are of interest to a wide scientific community and have an impact on progress in both basic and applied research carried out with the use of horticultural crops and their products. The aim is to disseminate recent findings and serve as a forum for presenting views, as well as for discussing important problems and prospects of modern horticulture, particularly in relation to sustainable production of high yield and quality horticultural products, including their impact on human health.The articles should concern any of the main groups of horticultural crops i.e., fruits, vegetables, herbal and medicinal plants, ornamental plants, and landscape plants. They should present novel and scientifically sound results or reviews relevant to a broad community. Interdisciplinary articles combining aspects of crop production, plant protection, breeding, seed science, post-harvest technology, and food technology are welcome. These applied aspects can be supported by basic research in biochemistry, plant physiology, biotechnology, and genetics. Particular interest is given to articles dealing with plant production with the aim of producing products with higher quality and of high importance for human health. Comparisons of sustainable production techniques with the use of conventional, organic, and biotechnologically improved crops, as well as global social and economic aspects of horticulture, can be presented.Folia Horticulturae publishes original research and review articles related to horticultural science that are of interest to a wide scientific community and have an impact on progress in both basic and applied research carried out with the use of horticultural crops and their products.The journal’s aim is to disseminate recent findings and serve as a forum for presenting views as well as for discussing important problems and prospects of modern horticulture, particularly in relation to sustainable production of high yield and quality of horticultural products, including their impact on human health.Each article is peer reviewed by independent experts. Full text articles are available since 2008.Folia Horticulturae ensures:electronic manuscript submission and processing,fast editorial processing,free English editing of the manuscript by a language editor,early bird online publishing,assignment of the

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Horticulture

Editor-in-chief Grzegorz P. ŁysiakPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

30Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.38LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

3LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

33OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

203OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.22OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

27LetPub · 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 16 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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Publisher

De Gruyter Open Ltd.

Country or region

POLAND

Language

English

ISSN

0867-1761

Electronic ISSN

2083-5965

Official links

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