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Applied Biosafety is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1535-6760Verify ISSN ↗2470-1246Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 432 / 725 | 40th | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 277 / 432 | 35th | Q3 |
| Biotechnology | 227 / 325 | 30th | Q3 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 115 / 151 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2004, 2001), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Applied Biosafety is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 432 of 725), Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 277 of 432) and Q3 in Biotechnology (rank 227 of 325), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Applied Biosafety is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.692, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
Applied Biosafety is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1535-6760 and its online ISSN is 2470-1246.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Applied Biosafety has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 2.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #183 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Applied Biosafety published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 47. 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 90 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (62.5%), United Kingdom (8.4%) and Brazil (3.1%). 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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