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Biopolymers is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0006-3525Verify ISSN ↗1097-0282Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biophysics | 88 / 155 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Organic Chemistry | 125 / 215 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Biomaterials | 92 / 146 | 37th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 285 / 448 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.7.
Biopolymers is Q3 in Biophysics (rank 88 of 155), Q3 in Organic Chemistry (rank 125 of 215) and Q3 in Biomaterials (rank 92 of 146), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Biopolymers 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.444, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 147.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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.
Biopolymers is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0006-3525 and its online ISSN is 1097-0282.
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.
Biopolymers has an h-index of 217 and a 2-year mean of 2.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 154 Scopus journals in Biophysics.
Biopolymers published 91 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 98. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (20%), Türkiye (9.4%) and Mexico (7.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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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