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Archives of Biological Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Institut za Bioloska Istrazivanja.
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ISSN 0354-4664Verify ISSN ↗1821-4339Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institut za Bioloska Istrazivanja
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 146 / 235 | 38th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 169 / 223 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Archives of Biological Sciences is Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 146 of 235) and Q4 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 169 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Archives of Biological Sciences 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.249, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
Archives of Biological Sciences is published by Institut za Bioloska Istrazivanja. Its print ISSN is 0354-4664 and its online ISSN is 1821-4339.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Archives of Biological Sciences has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #100 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Archives of Biological Sciences published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 67. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Serbia (28.5%), Algeria (24.1%) and China (8.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 53 retracted papers are recorded (24 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.
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