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Biological Trace Element Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0163-4984Verify ISSN ↗1559-0720Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$4,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inorganic Chemistry | 10 / 86 | 88th | Q1 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 32 / 250 | 87th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 62 / 448 | 86th | Q1 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 20 / 124 | 84th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry (medical) | 15 / 78 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.3.
Biological Trace Element Research is Q1 in Inorganic Chemistry (rank 10 of 86), Q1 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 32 of 250) and Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 62 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Biological Trace Element Research 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 9.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.890, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 119.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,290 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 Trace Element Research is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0163-4984 and its online ISSN is 1559-0720.
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 Trace Element Research has an h-index of 140 and a 2-year mean of 3.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 85 Scopus journals in Inorganic Chemistry.
Biological Trace Element Research published 446 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 531. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (29.1%), Brazil (7.1%) and Pakistan (5.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 56 retracted papers are recorded (5.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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