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Biological Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE. Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0006-3185Verify ISSN ↗1939-8697Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 54 / 235 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present (also 1981–1987, 1965–1979, 1945–1951), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
Biological Bulletin is Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 54 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Biological Bulletin 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.593, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 89.
Biological Bulletin is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0006-3185 and its online ISSN is 1939-8697.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biological Bulletin has an h-index of 162 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #157 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Biological Bulletin published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 61. 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 85 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (60.9%), Argentina (7.1%) and Australia (5.3%). 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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