Breeding Science

Aims & Scope

Breeding Science is published by the Japanese Society of Breeding.

Breeding Science publishes research papers, notes and reviews related to breeding.

Research Papers are standard original articles.

Notes report new cultivars, breeding lines, germplasms, genetic stocks, mapping populations, database, software, and techniques significant and useful for breeding.

Reviews summarize recent and historical events related breeding.

Manuscripts should be submitted by corresponding author.

Corresponding author must have obtained permission from all authors prior to submission.

Correspondence, proofs, and charges of excess page and color figures should be handled by the corresponding author.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.2
2024	2.00

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	8658

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	355

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.661

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Glucosinolate metabolism, functionality and breeding for the improvement of Brassicaceae vegetables

  Citation: 311

  Authors: Masahiko, Masakazu, Nobuko, Tomohiro, Yasujiro

• Loss-of-function of a Rice Gibberellin Biosynthetic Gene, GA20 oxidase (GA20ox-2), Led to the Rice 'Green Revolution'.

  Citation: 240

  Authors: Motoyuki, Akie, Miyako, Hironori, Asuka, Swapan, Kanako, Tamio, Masatomo, Gurdev S., Hidemi, Makoto

• Development of an RFLP-based Rice Diversity Research Set of Germplasm

  Citation: 202

  Authors: Yoichiro, Kaworu, Shuichi, Tsukasa, Makoto

• Construction and Evaluation of Chromosome Segment Substitution Lines Carrying Overlapping Chromosome Segments of indica Rice Cultivar 'Kasalath' in a Genetic Background of japonica Elite Cultivar 'Koshihikari'

  Citation: 193

  Authors: Takeshi, Yoshinobu, Yasunori, Toshio, Kasumi, Masahiro

• Developmental Course of Inflorescence and Spikelet in Rice

  Citation: 179

  Authors: Kyoko, Hidehiko, Yasuo

• Recent progress in drought and salt tolerance studies in <i>Brassica</i> crops

  Citation: 173

  Authors: Xuekun, Guangyuan, Weihua, Xiling, Feng, Takeshi

• Development of genome-wide SNP assays for rice

  Citation: 171

  Authors: Susan R., Keyan, Mark, Chih-Wei, Kaworu, Michael, Andy, Diane, Genevieve, Md. Liakat, Anna, Georgia, Carlos

• The effect of drought stress on the leaf relative water content and tuber yield of a half-sib family of ‘Katahdin’-derived potato cultivars

  Citation: 169

  Authors: Dorota, Jarosław, Danuta, Jadwiga, Waldemar

• Genetic and molecular bases of photoperiod responses of flowering in soybean

  Citation: 145

  Authors: Satoshi, Kyuya, Jun

• Development of monogenic lines of rice for blast resistance.

  Citation: 144

  Authors: Hiroshi, Mary Jeanie T., Leodegario A., Nagao, Ikuo, Hiroshi, Tokio, Gurdev S.

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