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Biological Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 24.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 1464-7931Verify ISSN ↗1469-185XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$5,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 2 / 235 | 99th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 7 / 223 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1924–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 24.5.
Biological Reviews is Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 2 of 235) and Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 7 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Biological Reviews 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 24.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.609, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 226.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,390 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.
Biological Reviews is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 1464-7931 and its online ISSN is 1469-185X.
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.
Biological Reviews has an h-index of 304 and a 2-year mean of 11.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 24.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Biological Reviews published 146 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 153. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (11.2%), Australia (10.5%) and United Kingdom (10%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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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