PMBP is a monthly International Journal of Functional Plant Biology co-published by SpringerNature & PHSSFSS with broad scope, Impact Factor 3.3, CiteScore 6.9
War or peace, improving fertilizer use efficiency and moderating fertilizer demand promote sustainable nutrient management and avoid triple planetary crisis, as our Editor wrote in this article: https://t.co/hoWyJwkoGU @PrinSciAdvGoI@CimmytMl@icarindia@DBTIndia@mygovindia
PMBP posted a growth of 14.3% in citations on Google Scholar between 2024 and 2025, about twice the year-on-year growth in the previous two years. Hopefully this translates into a substantial growth in impact factor in July this year. Track citations at: https://t.co/f09U3ChJfi
Happy New Year! Citations to PMBP on Google Scholar posted 10% growth in 2025, better than the last 2 yrs, with h-index of 90 and i-10 index of 1190. We hope impact factor grows from 3.3 now to >3.5 later this year. Let's keep up the excellence-led growth!
https://t.co/f09U3ChJfi
PMBP garnered >53,000 citations in 20 years at Google Scholar, of which 40,000 citations were obtained in the last 5 years alone! We thank all our discerning authors & reviewers for this excellence-led growth. Let's scale higher peaks together with >10,000 cites/year from 2026!
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More: https://t.co/UaLKqIKoAb
In India, farmers may soon benefit from new rice lines that deliver bigger harvests while requiring less water and labor.
Read here: https://t.co/YTznDYvB1w