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Behavior Genetics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0001-8244Verify ISSN ↗1573-3297Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 189 / 736 | 74th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 190 / 357 | 46th | Q3 |
| Genetics (clinical) | 55 / 100 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present (also 1970), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Behavior Genetics is Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 189 of 736), Q3 in Genetics (rank 190 of 357) and Q3 in Genetics (clinical) (rank 55 of 100), by CiteScore 2025.
Behavior Genetics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.796, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 110.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Behavior Genetics is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0001-8244 and its online ISSN is 1573-3297.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Behavior Genetics has an h-index of 148 and a 2-year mean of 1.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #299 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Behavior Genetics published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 76. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (41.7%), Netherlands (10.5%) and United Kingdom (10.3%).
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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