Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1943-0264Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 13 / 223 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.2.
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology is Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 13 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology 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 16.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.932, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 263.
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology is published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Its ISSN is 1943-0264.
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.
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology has an h-index of 305 and a 2-year mean of 8.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 221 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all).
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 173. 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.
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.