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Bio-based and Applied Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), ABDC C, WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Firenze University Press.
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ISSN 2280-6172Verify ISSN ↗2280-6180Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Firenze University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 162 / 520 | 68th | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 95 / 283 | 66th | Q2 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 186 / 422 | 56th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 154 / 307 | 50th | Q2 |
| Food Science | 217 / 420 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Bio-based and Applied Economics is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 162 of 520), Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 95 of 283) and Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 186 of 422), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Bio-based and Applied Economics 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.422, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Bio-based and Applied Economics is published by Firenze University Press. Its print ISSN is 2280-6172 and its online ISSN is 2280-6180.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other economics.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Bio-based and Applied Economics has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #211 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Bio-based and Applied Economics published 40 papers in 2025. 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Italy (54%), Poland (4.3%) and Netherlands (3.9%). 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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