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Biotechnology Law Report is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0730-031XVerify ISSN ↗1557-8704Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 397 / 432 | 8th | Q4 |
| Biotechnology | 301 / 325 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1992–1993, 1990, 1982–1984), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Biotechnology Law Report is Q4 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 397 of 432) and Q4 in Biotechnology (rank 301 of 325), by CiteScore 2025.
Biotechnology Law Report 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 8th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.159, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
Biotechnology Law Report is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0730-031X and its online ISSN is 1557-8704.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biotechnology Law Report has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #366 of 404 Scopus journals in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.
Biotechnology Law Report published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 58. 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 30 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (36.7%), United States (28.3%) and India (16.7%).
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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