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Biotecnologia Aplicada is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Elfos Scientiae.
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ISSN 0864-4551Verify ISSN ↗1027-2852Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elfos Scientiae
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 127 / 134 | 5th | Q4 |
| Biotechnology | 308 / 325 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–2024 (also 1990–1992), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Biotecnologia Aplicada is Q4 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 127 of 134) and Q4 in Biotechnology (rank 308 of 325), by CiteScore 2025.
Biotecnologia Aplicada is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4, 5th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.121, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 19.
Biotecnologia Aplicada is published by Elfos Scientiae. Its print ISSN is 0864-4551 and its online ISSN is 1027-2852.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biotecnologia Aplicada has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 130 Scopus journals in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Biotecnologia Aplicada published 15 papers in 2018; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 25. 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.
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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