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Bioactive Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 38.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2452-199XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biomaterials | 2 / 146 | 98th | Q1 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 5 / 342 | 98th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 5 / 325 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 38.3.
Bioactive Materials is Q1 in Biomaterials (rank 2 of 146), Q1 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 5 of 342) and Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 5 of 325), by CiteScore 2025.
Bioactive Materials 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 38.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.047, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 150.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,200 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.
Bioactive Materials is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2452-199X.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Bioactive Materials has an h-index of 157 and a 2-year mean of 10.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 38.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 142 Scopus journals in Biomaterials.
Bioactive Materials published 541 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (72.6%), United States (7.5%) and Hong Kong SAR China (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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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