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Alternatives to Laboratory Animals is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0261-1929Verify ISSN ↗2632-3559Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Laboratory Technology | 9 / 42 | 79th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 71 / 223 | 68th | Q2 |
| Toxicology | 61 / 131 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1988–1989, 1985–1986, 1982), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals is Q1 in Medical Laboratory Technology (rank 9 of 42), Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 71 of 223) and Q2 in Toxicology (rank 61 of 131), by CiteScore 2025.
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.645, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 69.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0261-1929 and its online ISSN is 2632-3559.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 1.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 42 Scopus journals in Medical Laboratory Technology.
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 69. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 51 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (16.9%), Brazil (12.2%) and Germany (11.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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