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Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 50 / 432 | 88th | Q1 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 17 / 134 | 87th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 53 / 325 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 77 / 345 | 77th | Q1 |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | 26 / 106 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.1.
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts is Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 50 of 432), Q1 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 17 of 134) and Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 53 of 325), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 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 10.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.108, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 150.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,440 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.
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2731-3654.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 9.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 404 Scopus journals in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts published 126 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 197. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (27.6%), United States (11.6%) and Germany (10.4%).
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 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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