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Biology Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by The Royal Society.
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ISSN 1744-9561Verify ISSN ↗1744-957XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Royal Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 51 / 235 | 78th | Q1 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 55 / 253 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Biology Letters is Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 51 of 235) and Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 55 of 253), by CiteScore 2025.
Biology Letters 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.982, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 148.
Biology Letters is published by The Royal Society. Its print ISSN is 1744-9561 and its online ISSN is 1744-957X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Biology Letters has an h-index of 175 and a 2-year mean of 3.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Biology Letters published 213 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 235. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (25.5%), United Kingdom (12.7%) and Germany (7.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 13 retracted papers are recorded (2.8 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.
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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