About the Journal

About the journal

Advancing horticultural science since 2006

The Journal of Horticultural Sciences (Print ISSN 0973-354X; Online ISSN 2582-4899) is a biannual Global Diamond Open Access Journal published by the Society for Promotion of Horticulture and hosted at the ICAR–Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru.

Since becoming fully open access in 2016, the journal has made its complete archive freely available under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.

Free to read Free to publish No APCs Average 6 weeks to publication

Journal indicators

Visibility and impact

0.4JIF 2025
(JCR 2026)

6.4NAAS Rating
2026 30Google Scholar
h-index 9h5-index
h5-median 11 0.7CiteScore 2024
SJR 0.189

Aims and scope

Horticulture and cognate disciplines

The journal publishes review articles, research papers and short communications presenting original basic and applied research across all branches of horticultural science. It informs researchers and stakeholders about recent scientific advances and extension findings.

Open access

Authors retain copyright

Articles may be read, shared and reused for non-commercial purposes with attribution under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. Authors may share their preprint, accepted manuscript and final published version.

Read the Open Access Policy