Journal profile · Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Plant Science
Karstenia
ISSN 0453-3402 · Finnish Mycological Society
Karstenia: fully open access; no APC; 1 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Karstenia is published by Finnish Mycological Society. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, together about 54% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Notice to Authors and Readers The journal is approaching the conclusion of its publishing activities and is in the process of winding down its operations. Accordingly, the journal is no longer accepting new manuscript submissions. Manuscripts submitted, currently under consideration, or in the editorial process will be handled with due care and in line with the guidelines of the journal. Authors concerned will be informed directly about the next steps. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to all authors, reviewers, editors, subscribers, and readers who have supported and contributed to the journal over the years. Karstenia is an international research journal with an emphasis to boreal and arctic-alpine mycology. It publishes papers reporting original research on all aspects of the fungi (including lichens), especially on systematics and ecology. Papers also appropriate for the journal are review articles, book reviews and invited papers. Publication is open to all persons. Papers are accepted in English. All articles are peer-reviewed by specialists prior to acceptance. Each volume of Karstenia consists of two issues which appear in June and December. Occasionally supplements will be published. Karstenia is dedicated to P. A. Karsten (1834–1917) and published by the Finnish Mycological Society.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Plant Science
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Plant and Fungal Species DescriptionsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology19.2%
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant InteractionsAgricultural and Biological Sciences18.6%
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal DiseasesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology16.2%
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences13.5%
- Lichen and fungal ecologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences8.3%
- Yeasts and Rust Fungi StudiesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.6%
- Slime Mold and Myxomycetes ResearchEngineering4.2%
- Fungal Biology and ApplicationsMedicine3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Science | Q3 | 372/534 | 30th |
| Infectious Diseases | Q3 | 261/357 | 27th |
| Microbiology | Q4 | 159/188 | 15th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.3LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.79LetPub ·
- h-index
- 29OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 123OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.5OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 531 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 105 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 158 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 195 |
| 2023 | 6 | 6 | 199 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 136 |
| 2021 | 8 | 8 | 222 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Peer review
- Single-anonymous peer reviewPublisher website · model-extracted
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- EUR 300
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 400 words
- Keywords
- ≤ 8
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
- Not considered
- electronic supplementary material
Article types accepted1
- review articleReview articlesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Authorship
Originality, not under consideration elsewhere, co-author approval required. Model summary
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract, or as part of a published lecture, or thesis); that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else and that its publication has been approved by all co-authors.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest 3. Conflicts of interest
Authors must declare competing financial and/or non-financial interests. Model summary
Authors must declare any competing financial and/or non-financial interests in relation to the work described.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Requires deposition of voucher specimens, cultures/DNA, sequences in public databases, and taxonomic novelties in MycoBank. Model summary
Karstenia strongly supports good practice policies, and requires herbarium voucher specimens to be deposited in a herbarium, living cultures and/or DNA in long-term genetic resource collections, sequences in GenBank (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/), EMBL (https://www.embl.org/) or other publicly-accessible databases, and taxonomic novelties in MycoBank (https://www.mycobank.org/).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Follows TENK responsible conduct of research guidelines (2012). Model summary
The journal follows the TENK (The Finnish Advisory Board on ResearchIntegrity (TENK) guidelines “Responsible conduct of research and procedures for handling allegations of misconduct in Finland” (2012).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright, Licensing, Publishing Rights
Content licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Model summary
Mycology should be for everyone. Karstenia is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is i…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review: at least two anonymous expert referees. Model summary
All manuscripts are reviewed by at least two anonymous expert referees.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism 2. Policy of screening for plagiarism
Plagiarism screening with similarity check/detection software before review. Model summary
All articles submitted in Karstenia will be checked for plagiarism with similarity check or detection software tool before passing them to the reviewers. The journal will immediately reject the paper, if plagiarism of a complete article or exceptionally large portions of an article is detected. All authors are encouraged to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking before sub…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Finnish Mycological Society
- ISSN
- 0453-3402
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Karstenia
What are the manuscript requirements of Karstenia?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 400 words; Keywords: ≤ 8; Reference style: Author–date; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Karstenia?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Karstenia is indexed in Scopus.
Is Karstenia open access, and what is the APC?
Karstenia is a fully open-access journal. It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .