Journal profile · Agronomy
Weed Biology and Management
ISSN 1444-6162 · eISSN 1445-6664 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · JAPAN · Quarterly · Founded 2001
Weed Biology and Management: CAS Zone 4 · Agricultural & Forestry Sciences (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.68; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,040; median 197 days to acceptance (25 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 22 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Weed Biology and Management is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing 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 Weed Control and Herbicide Applications, Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions and Biological Control of Invasive Species, together about 45.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Weed Biology and Management is an international journal, published four times per year. The journal accepts contributions in the form of original research and review articles in all aspects of weed science. Contributions from weed scientists in the Asia–Pacific region are particularly welcomed. The content of the contributions may relate to weed taxonomy, ecology and physiology, weed management and control methodologies, herbicide behaviors in plants, soils and environment, utilization of weeds and other aspects of weed science. All contributions must be of sufficient quality to extend our knowledge in weed science.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Agronomy
Editor-in-chief Yoshiko ShimonoPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 5%); most named Japan 16, Australia 2, Mainland China 1, United States 1, South Korea 1 (22 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Weed Control and Herbicide ApplicationsAgricultural and Biological Sciences24.3%
- Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactionsAgricultural and Biological Sciences13.5%
- Biological Control of Invasive SpeciesAgricultural and Biological Sciences7.9%
- Plant and animal studiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.6%
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping SystemsAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.1%
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental StudiesEnvironmental Science5.8%
- Plant Parasitism and ResistanceAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.7%
- Plant tissue culture and regenerationBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Agronomy | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Agronomy | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Agricultural & Forestry Sciences Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Agricultural & Forestry Sciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Agronomy | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PubMedCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, AGRICOLA, Astrophysics Data System
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.68LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.9LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.41LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.87LetPub ·
- h-index
- 32LetPub ·
- h-index
- 51OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 379OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.13OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 25.71%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 10LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 10Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 28,301Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 921 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 22 | 8 | 35 |
| 2024 | 26 | 15 | 41 |
| 2023 | 21 | 11 | 80 |
| 2022 | 20 | 0 | 43 |
| 2021 | 31 | 5 | 165 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
197 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 133 days – 326 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (26 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 209 days
- Sample
- 25 articles with submission and acceptance dates (44 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 36 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 9%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 9%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 141 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 22 daysPublisher website ·
- 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,040 / EUR 2,520 / GBP 2,060 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | JPY 8,000 / JPY 5,000 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Article types accepted5, with length limits
- editorialExcept where otherwise stated, manuscripts are single-blind peer reviewed by two anonymous reviewers and the Editor. Submission to the journal implies that the …Length not stated
- research paperResearch Papers and Technical Reports should not exceed 12 typeset pages (approximately 7000 words), inclusive of the title page, tables and figures.main text ≤ 7,000 words
- research papersResearch Papers and Technical Reports should not exceed 12 typeset pages (approximately 7000 words), inclusive of the title page, tables and figures.Length not stated
- reviewsReviews should not exceed 12 typeset pages, inclusive of the title page, tables and figures.Length not stated
- technical reportsResearch Papers and Technical Reports should not exceed 12 typeset pages (approximately 7000 words), inclusive of the title page, tables and figures.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, Publication ethics, Preprints
- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
Data availability statement Model summary
The journal encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data availability statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
COPE member Model summary
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley'sTop 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints allowed Model summary
The journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. The submitted version of an article is the author's version that has not been peer-reviewed. Authors are requested to update the entry on the preprint server so that it links to and cites the DOI for the published version.
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
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- JAPAN
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 2001
- ISSN
- 1444-6162
- Electronic ISSN
- 1445-6664
- Society / sponsor
- Weed Science Society of Japan
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 26, Issue 3 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Weed Biology and Management
What CAS zone is Weed Biology and Management in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Weed Biology and Management is in Zone 4 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Agronomy / Plant Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Weed Biology and Management?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.68; CiteScore 2.9, h-index 51.
How long does peer review take at Weed Biology and Management?
Based on the dates recorded on 25 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 197 days (interquartile range 133–326 days); authors report an average review time of over 36 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 9% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Weed Biology and Management based?
Of the 22 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 5%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Japan (16), Australia (2) and Mainland China (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Weed Biology and Management?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Weed Biology and Management is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists PubMed, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Weed Biology and Management open access, and what is the APC?
Weed Biology and Management is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,040.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .