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Birth Defects Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 2472-1727Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 113 / 351 | 67th | Q2 |
| Embryology | 10 / 25 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 97 / 151 | 36th | Q3 |
| Developmental Biology | 54 / 78 | 31st | Q3 |
| Toxicology | 92 / 131 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Birth Defects Research is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 113 of 351), Q2 in Embryology (rank 10 of 25) and Q3 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 97 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Birth Defects Research 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.560, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 48.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,700 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.
Birth Defects Research is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its ISSN is 2472-1727.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Birth Defects Research has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 1.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Birth Defects Research published 151 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 224. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.3%), Türkiye (5%) and China (5%).
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.
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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