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Biosafety and Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2096-6962Verify ISSN ↗2590-0536Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 140 / 725 | 80th | Q1 |
| Infectious Diseases | 96 / 361 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 51 / 147 | 65th | Q2 |
| Biotechnology | 137 / 325 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Biosafety and Health is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 140 of 725), Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 96 of 361) and Q2 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 51 of 147), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Biosafety and Health 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.645, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
Biosafety and Health is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 2096-6962 and its online ISSN is 2590-0536.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Biosafety and Health has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 3.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #104 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Biosafety and Health published 53 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 61. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (86.6%), United States (2%) and Bangladesh (1.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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