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Annals of Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Agri. Bio. Publishers.
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ISSN 0970-0153Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Agri. Bio. Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 222 / 235 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1987–1997, 1973–1975), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Annals of Biology is Q4 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 222 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Annals of Biology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4, 5th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.116, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Annals of Biology is published by Agri. Bio. Publishers. Its ISSN is 0970-0153.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Annals of Biology has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #198 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Annals of Biology published 37 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 65. 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.
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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