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BMC Bioinformatics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1471-2105Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 34 / 680 | 95th | Q1 |
| Structural Biology | 7 / 51 | 87th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 81 / 448 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 194 / 1022 | 81st | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 100 / 414 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.3.
BMC Bioinformatics is Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 34 of 680), Q1 in Structural Biology (rank 7 of 51) and Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 81 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
BMC Bioinformatics 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 8.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.111, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 265.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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.
BMC Bioinformatics is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1471-2105.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BMC Bioinformatics has an h-index of 315 and a 2-year mean of 4.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
BMC Bioinformatics published 336 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 764. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (26.4%), United States (10.4%) and South Korea (8.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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.
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