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Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1878-8181Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,760 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 57 / 422 | 86th | Q1 |
| Food Science | 79 / 420 | 81st | Q1 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 32 / 134 | 76th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 92 / 325 | 71st | Q2 |
| Bioengineering | 54 / 168 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.7.
Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology is Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 57 of 422), Q1 in Food Science (rank 79 of 420) and Q1 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 32 of 134), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology 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 7.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.764, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,760 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.
Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 1878-8181.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology has an h-index of 105 and a 2-year mean of 5.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology published 425 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 535. 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 84 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (28.8%), China (13%) and Brazil (10.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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