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Amino Acids is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0939-4451Verify ISSN ↗1438-2199Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 40 / 215 | 81st | Q1 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 27 / 124 | 78th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 105 / 448 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Amino Acids is Q1 in Organic Chemistry (rank 40 of 215), Q1 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 27 of 124) and Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 105 of 448), by CiteScore 2025.
Amino Acids 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.821, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 153.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,590 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.
Amino Acids is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0939-4451 and its online ISSN is 1438-2199.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Amino Acids has an h-index of 168 and a 2-year mean of 4.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Amino Acids published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 202. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (23.6%), Iran (12.1%) and United States (8.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (2.3 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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