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Aims and scope

Aims and scope

Rice aims to fill a glaring void in basic and applied plant science journal publishing. This journal is the world's only high-quality serial publication for reporting current advances in rice genetics, structural and functional genomics, comparative genomics, molecular biology and physiology, molecular breeding and comparative biology. Rice welcomes review articles and original papers in all of the aforementioned areas and serves as the primary source of newly published information for researchers and students in rice and related research.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    5.5 - 2-year Impact Factor
    5.8 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.588 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    1.335 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    7 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    100 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage
    685,872 downloads
    254 Altmetric mentions