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Biodemography and Social Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1948-5565Verify ISSN ↗1948-5573Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 143 / 536 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Demography | 58 / 140 | 58th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 457 / 736 | 37th | Q3 |
| Genetics | 306 / 357 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 1990), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Biodemography and Social Biology is Q2 in Anthropology (rank 143 of 536), Q2 in Demography (rank 58 of 140) and Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 457 of 736), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Biodemography and Social Biology is indexed in the 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.430, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
Biodemography and Social Biology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1948-5565 and its online ISSN is 1948-5573.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biodemography and Social Biology has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 1.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Biodemography and Social Biology published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 28. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (35.5%), China (10.1%) and Türkiye (4.8%).
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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