Journal profile

Plant communications

Publisher: Published by the Plant Communications Shanghai Office in association with Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier Inc
ISSN2590-3462 FormatOnline StatusCurrently indexed

Journal Citation Impact

Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.

Impact Factor
4.81
Citation rate 12.64 4,249 total citations
h5-index 75 h5 depth signal
Cited share 97.6% 360 of 369
Total citations 4,249 Citation footprint
Metric signal 13.63 External metric anchor
Self-citation 1.9% 79 self-citations

Citations Trend

Monthly Publications Cadence

Citing Geographic Demographics

China 860
United States 141
Germany 72
United Kingdom 43
Australia 41

Citing Fields of Research

Crop Science 903
Genetics & Genomics 399
Plant Pathology 146
Evolutionary Genomics 82
Cell Biology 76

Publishing Activity & Reach

Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.

All-time article footprint 1,152 Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set 369 360 cited publications
Last 12 months 344 28.7 publications/month
Open access share 100.0% 344 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country China 860 citing publications
Leading citing field Crop Science 903 citing publications
Latest tracked publication 15 October 2026 10 recent records available

Coverage & Indexing History

MEDLINE
v1n1, Jan. 2020-
PubMed
v1n1, Jan. 2020-
PMC
Active Coverage

Research Focus & Classification

Indexed Subjects

Crop Science

Broad Categories

Botany Crop Science

MeSH Descriptors

Plant Physiological Phenomena

Latest Publications

Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.

Bibliographical & Catalog Notes

Some volumes have special issues.

Some articles in Volume 1 published electronically in 2019.

Open access sister journal to Molecular plant.

Complemented by (work): Molecular plant 1674-2052 (DLC) 2008205805 (OCoLC)779684106 (DNLM)101465514.