Journal of Plant Nutrition

Journal of Plant Nutrition is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. 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 Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, together about 35.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Plant Nutrition serves as a comprehensive, convenient source of new and important findings exploring the influence of currently known essential and nonessential elements on plant physiology and growth. The journal emphasizes high value, intensive crop production in both horticulture and agronomic systems. Beneficial elements, symbiotic relationships between bacteria and fungi and crop yield, and the role of plant nutrients in disease control are some of the topics covered in addition to essential plant nutrients. Refereed by an internationally renowned editorial board ensuring the high level of scholarship, Journal of Plant Nutrition provides insightful coverage of nutritional topics, such as: Hydroponic and greenhouse crop nutrient requirements and factors influencing plant nutrition Nutrition involving container production Media analysis of pine bark, peat, and artificial media Interpretation/correlation of soil and plant analysis Intensive production of agronomic and vegetable crops Production and nutritional requirements of fruit, ornamental, floriculture, tropical, and foliage plants Use of precision agriculture for nutritional requirements of crops Plant growth promoting bacteria and elemental nutrition interactions as related to crop yield Journal of Plant Nutrition serves as a platform for researchers to present their findings to an international audience, which will help to develop research programs that will further our knowledge of plant nutrition. It is also an invaluable resource utilized by growers and consultants to develop operational fertility regimes that are based upon the current peer reviewed publications. Peer Review Policy: All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Plant Sciences

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 9%); most named United States 2, Mainland China 1, United Kingdom 1, India 1, Germany 1 (11 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

PubMedCASPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, OCLC, CABI (listed in various services in CABI), CSA (listed in various services in CSA), EBSCOhost (listed in various services in EBSCOhost), Personal Alert (Email), Plant Science, ProQuest (listed in various services in ProQuest), Sorghum and Millets, VINTI RAN (Referatiynyi Zhurnal)

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

1.72LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.41LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.41Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.61LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.61Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

66LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

133OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

4,411OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.51OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

1.93%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

202LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

220,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 24 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

17%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

7 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

125 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

18 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1979

ISSN

0190-4167

Electronic ISSN

1532-4087

Latest issue on the website

Volume 49, Issue 16 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website