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BioResources is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by North Carolina State University.
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ISSN 1930-2126Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: North Carolina State University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 120 / 241 | 50th | Q2 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 85 / 151 | 44th | Q3 |
| Bioengineering | 125 / 168 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
BioResources is Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 120 of 241), Q3 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 85 of 151) and Q3 in Bioengineering (rank 125 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
BioResources 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.375, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 111.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,452 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.
BioResources is published by North Carolina State University. Its ISSN is 1930-2126.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BioResources has an h-index of 119 and a 2-year mean of 1.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
BioResources published 621 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 703. 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 55 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (22.7%), Türkiye (12.7%) and United States (6.4%).
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 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.
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