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Biology and Philosophy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5), WoS AHCI/SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 0169-3867Verify ISSN ↗1572-8404Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 59 / 891 | 93rd | Q1 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 22 / 254 | 91st | Q1 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 69 / 235 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
Biology and Philosophy is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 59 of 891), Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 22 of 254) and Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 69 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Biology and Philosophy is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.679, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 67.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Biology and Philosophy is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 0169-3867 and its online ISSN is 1572-8404.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biology and Philosophy has an h-index of 103 and a 2-year mean of 2.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Biology and Philosophy published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 70. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (30.1%), United Kingdom (12.2%) and Germany (9.3%).
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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