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Biophysical Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Biophysical Society.
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ISSN 2667-0747Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Biophysical Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 55 / 144 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Biophysics | 79 / 155 | 49th | Q3 |
| Biotechnology | 170 / 325 | 47th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 265 / 448 | 40th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Biophysical Reports is Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 55 of 144), Q3 in Biophysics (rank 79 of 155) and Q3 in Biotechnology (rank 170 of 325), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Biophysical Reports is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.869, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,400 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.
Biophysical Reports is published by Biophysical Society. Its ISSN is 2667-0747.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Biophysical Reports has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 1.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #77 of 141 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous).
Biophysical Reports published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 40. 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 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (46.1%), Germany (9.8%) and Italy (6.8%).
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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