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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1874-9399Verify ISSN ↗1876-4320Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,840 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biophysics | 40 / 155 | 74th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 111 / 357 | 69th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry | 170 / 448 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Structural Biology | 20 / 51 | 61st | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 180 / 414 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.1.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms is Q2 in Biophysics (rank 40 of 155), Q2 in Genetics (rank 111 of 357) and Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 170 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.069, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 152.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,840 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.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1874-9399 and its online ISSN is 1876-4320.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms has an h-index of 137 and a 2-year mean of 3.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #40 of 154 Scopus journals in Biophysics.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 144. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (20.8%), China (14.3%) and United States (11.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 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.
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