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Animal Cells and Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1976-8354Verify ISSN ↗2151-2485Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 56 / 520 | 89th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 76 / 223 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Animal Cells and Systems is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 56 of 520) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 76 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Animal Cells and Systems 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.813, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,459 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.
Animal Cells and Systems is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1976-8354 and its online ISSN is 2151-2485.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Animal Cells and Systems has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 4.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Animal Cells and Systems published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 55. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (78.5%), United States (6.7%) and China (6.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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