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BMB Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by The Biochemical Society of the Republic of Korea.
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ISSN 1976-6696Verify ISSN ↗1976-670XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Biochemical Society of the Republic of Korea
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 136 / 448 | 69th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 153 / 414 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.8.
BMB Reports is Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 136 of 448) and Q2 in Molecular Biology (rank 153 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
BMB 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.256, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 104.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$550 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.
BMB Reports is published by The Biochemical Society of the Republic of Korea. Its print ISSN is 1976-6696 and its online ISSN is 1976-670X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BMB Reports has an h-index of 113 and a 2-year mean of 4.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #92 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
BMB Reports published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 114. 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 South Korea (82.7%), United States (7.3%) and China (2.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (2 per 1,000 papers). 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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