According to the public relations office of the institute, due to the indexing of the biannual scientific journal of Rostaniha (Botanical journal of Iran- systematics and biodiversity of fungi and plants) in the Scopus indexing database for the last two years, the necessary time for the Quartile rank (Q) allocation process has passed, and according to the announcement made by the Scopus Institute, this Journal, has recently achieved a Q4 rating in the scientific rankings of this institute, and this ranking could change depending on the number of references made to the journal's articles.

It is worth mentioning that according to the new regulations of the Ministry of Science, Research and technology, the journals that have the Q index of Scopus are among the international journals of the country and are evaluated annually by that ministry. The list of the active links to the sites in which the Rostaniha scientific journal is indexed which is also displayed on the front page of the journal's portal is as follows:

SCOPUS

Thomson Reuters (ISI)

Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR)

Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC)

Portal of DOAJ and CABI scientific journals

Scientific Information Database (SID)

Database of national publications (MAGIRAN)

While congratulating and wishing success to Dr. Jafari, Managing Director, Dr. Shirzadian, Editor-in-Chief and members of the editorial board of the Scientific Journal of Rostaniha, it is to inform that the license owner of this publication is the Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection.