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Biological Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1). Published by Saint Petersburg State University.
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ISSN 2542-2154Verify ISSN ↗2587-5779Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Saint Petersburg State University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 167 / 235 | 29th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 185 / 223 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Biological Communications is Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 167 of 235) and Q4 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 185 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Biological Communications is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3, 29th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.213, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
Biological Communications is published by Saint Petersburg State University. Its print ISSN is 2542-2154 and its online ISSN is 2587-5779.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biological Communications has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #179 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Biological Communications published 39 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Russia (89.1%), Vietnam (2.5%) and Uruguay (1%). 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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