Phytoprotection

Phytoprotection is published by QUEBEC SOC PROTECT PLANTS 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 Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control and Insect Resistance and Genetics, together about 24.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science and Insect Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants (QSPP) publishes in PHYTOPROTECTION original scientific articles, short communications, articles of synthesis, minisyntheses, literature reviews, emerging technologies, notes in plant protection, historical notes , forums and scientific profiles dealing with all aspects of plant protection (entomology, weed science, nematology, phytopathology, zoology, biotechnology, including abiotic factors). Research topics should be relevant to national, provincial and / or regional issues in the temperate climatic zones. It also publishes summaries of papers presented at the QSPP Annual Meeting and other scientific events. Guidelines for authors are available on this site. There is no publication fee for QSPP members and the charges are $ 30 CAD per page for non-members and must be assumed by the authors. All manuscript should be submitted through the online submission system. Journal Sections -Scientific Papers -Short communications These notes cover mainly the introduction or the outbreak of new plant pests: insects, diseases, weeds, etc. The notes, 1 to 3 pages in lenght, are reviewed by at least one reviewer. Printing charges are applied. -Minireviews Minireviews published in Phytoprotection summarize recent developments on a specific discipline or application in plant protection. These articles, 3 to 5 pages in length, may address either basic aspects in plant protection, or topics of more technical or applied nature. Authors wishing to submit a minireview must contact the Editor to obtain detailed instructions for the preparation of their manuscript. As for review papers, no charges are applied for minireviews that will be reviewed by two referees. -Abstracts of the annual meeting Phytoprotection publishes the abstracts of the presentations given during the annual meeting. -Research breakthroughs This section of Phytoprotection presents a brief summary of significant research articles in plant protection, published recently in the scientific literature. Published in the form of “Research News”, this section of the Journal aims at presenting some of the most significant developments in the broad research field of plant protection. Each News, about 15 lines in length, summarizes the main findings of the paper, after briefly putting in context the topic addressed. The News are published in both English and French and no charges are applied. -Forum Phytoprotection publishes a Discussion forum allowing the readers to ad

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Plant Sciences

Editor-in-chief Louis BernierPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIELetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

0.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

32OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

135OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.67OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 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 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.

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

QUEBEC SOC PROTECT PLANTS

Country or region

CANADA

Language

Multi-Language

Frequency

Tri-annual

ISSN

0031-9511

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex