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Artificial Life is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 1064-5462Verify ISSN ↗1530-9185Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 266 / 736 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 72 / 144 | 50th | Q2 |
| Computer Science (miscellaneous) | 92 / 179 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present (also 1995), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Artificial Life is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 266 of 736), Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 72 of 144) and Q3 in Computer Science (miscellaneous) (rank 92 of 179), by CiteScore 2025.
Artificial Life 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.382, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 68.
Artificial Life is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 1064-5462 and its online ISSN is 1530-9185.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Artificial Life has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 1.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #310 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Artificial Life published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 45. 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.8%), United Kingdom (24.3%) and Italy (9.8%).
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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