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Comptes Rendus - Biologies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Academie des sciences.
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ISSN 1631-0691Verify ISSN ↗1768-3238Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academie des sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 327 / 669 | 51st | Q2 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 151 / 235 | 35th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 173 / 223 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (all) | 51 / 63 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1959), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Comptes Rendus - Biologies is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 327 of 669), Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 151 of 235) and Q4 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 173 of 223), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Comptes Rendus - Biologies 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.299, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 103.
Comptes Rendus - Biologies is published by Academie des sciences. Its print ISSN is 1631-0691 and its online ISSN is 1768-3238.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Comptes Rendus - Biologies has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 1.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #253 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Comptes Rendus - Biologies published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 89. 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 77 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from France (86.5%), Hong Kong SAR China (2.6%) and Germany (2.3%). 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. 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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