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Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.6). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
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ISSN 1559-6095Verify ISSN ↗1940-3402Verify 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) | 128 / 223 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.6.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is Q3 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 128 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols 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 2.6, quartile Q3, 42nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.315, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 73.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Its print ISSN is 1559-6095 and its online ISSN is 1940-3402.
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.
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.
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols has an h-index of 94 and a 2-year mean of 1.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #120 of 221 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all).
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 418. 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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