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Biological Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1431-6730Verify ISSN ↗1437-4315Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Biochemistry | 36 / 124 | 71st | Q2 |
| Biochemistry | 150 / 448 | 66th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 163 / 414 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1975, 1952, 1881), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.4.
Biological Chemistry is Q2 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 36 of 124), Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 150 of 448) and Q2 in Molecular Biology (rank 163 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Biological Chemistry 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.052, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 137.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Biological Chemistry is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1431-6730 and its online ISSN is 1437-4315.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biological Chemistry has an h-index of 145 and a 2-year mean of 2.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 121 Scopus journals in Clinical Biochemistry.
Biological Chemistry published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 168. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (70.1%), United States (6%) and France (2.7%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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