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Bioscience Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Portland Press Ltd.
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ISSN 0144-8463Verify ISSN ↗1573-4935Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biophysics | 18 / 155 | 88th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 78 / 448 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 97 / 414 | 76th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 78 / 289 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.4.
Bioscience Reports is Q1 in Biophysics (rank 18 of 155), Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 78 of 448) and Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 97 of 414), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Bioscience Reports 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 8.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.023, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 107.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,960 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.
Bioscience Reports is published by Portland Press Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0144-8463 and its online ISSN is 1573-4935.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Bioscience Reports has an h-index of 128 and a 2-year mean of 2.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 154 Scopus journals in Biophysics.
Bioscience Reports published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 901. 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 China (23.4%), United Kingdom (11.6%) and United States (9.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 509 retracted papers are recorded (81.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 7 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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