Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Nature Plants

Country

United Kingdom

Universities and research institutions in United Kingdom
Media Ranking in United Kingdom

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.

H-Index

111

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

2055026X

Coverage

2010, 2015-2022

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

plants@nature.com

Scope

Like all Nature-branded journals, Nature Plants is characterized by a dedicated team of professional editors, a fair and rigorous peer-review process, high standards of copy-editing and production, swift publication and editorial independence. In addition to publishing original research, Nature Plants publishes Comments, Reviews, News & Views, Features and Correspondence from across the full range of disciplines concerned with plants. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Plant Science2016Q1
Plant Science2017Q1
Plant Science2018Q1
Plant Science2019Q1
Plant Science2020Q1
Plant Science2021Q1
Plant Science2022Q1
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20163.715
20175.075
20185.217
20195.517
20205.380
20214.894
20225.205
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
2015177
2016170
2017201
2018213
2019235
2020230
2021241
2022219
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20150.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20164.678
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20176.032
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20186.670
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20197.301
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20208.150
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20219.115
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20229.522
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20150.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20164.678
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20176.032
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20186.670
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20197.238
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20207.451
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20219.094
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20229.578
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20150.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20164.678
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20176.032
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20186.609
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20196.075
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20207.299
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20219.006
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20229.722
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20150
Self Cites201623
Self Cites201733
Self Cites201877
Self Cites201959
Self Cites202099
Self Cites2021125
Self Cites2022133
Total Cites20150
Total Cites2016828
Total Cites20172093
Total Cites20183655
Total Cites20194227
Total Cites20204836
Total Cites20216166
Total Cites20226762
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20150
External Cites per document20164.548
External Cites per document20175.937
External Cites per document20186.529
External Cites per document20197.137
External Cites per document20207.299
External Cites per document20218.910
External Cites per document20229.390
Cites per document20150.000
Cites per document20164.678
Cites per document20176.032
Cites per document20186.670
Cites per document20197.238
Cites per document20207.451
Cites per document20219.094
Cites per document20229.578
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
201529.94
201640.00
201729.35
201838.97
201938.72
202045.22
202144.40
202234.70
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20150
Non-citable documents201656
Non-citable documents2017111
Non-citable documents2018180
Non-citable documents2019213
Non-citable documents2020270
Non-citable documents2021285
Non-citable documents2022260
Citable documents20150
Citable documents2016121
Citable documents2017236
Citable documents2018368
Citable documents2019371
Citable documents2020379
Citable documents2021393
Citable documents2022446
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20150
Uncited documents201665
Uncited documents2017108
Uncited documents2018192
Uncited documents2019223
Uncited documents2020249
Uncited documents2021236
Uncited documents2022235
Cited documents20150
Cited documents2016112
Cited documents2017239
Cited documents2018356
Cited documents2019361
Cited documents2020400
Cited documents2021442
Cited documents2022471
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