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Cryobiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 0011-2240Verify ISSN ↗1090-2392Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,870 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 160 / 669 | 76th | Q1 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 72 / 235 | 69th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 106 / 223 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
Cryobiology is Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 160 of 669), Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 72 of 235) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 106 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Cryobiology 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.515, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 101.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,870 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.
Cryobiology is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0011-2240 and its online ISSN is 1090-2392.
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.
Cryobiology has an h-index of 134 and a 2-year mean of 1.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #221 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Cryobiology published 345 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 619. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (20.2%), United States (13.6%) and Brazil (8.1%).
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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