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Current Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cell Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0960-9822Verify ISSN ↗1879-0445Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cell Press
Cost to publish: About US$7,030 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 9 / 235 | 96th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 26 / 223 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.7.
Current Biology is Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 9 of 235) and Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 26 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Current 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 10.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.897, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 386.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$7,030 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.
Current Biology is published by Cell Press. Its print ISSN is 0960-9822 and its online ISSN is 1879-0445.
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.
Current Biology has an h-index of 459 and a 2-year mean of 6.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Current Biology published 918 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 1,107. 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 United States (41%), China (11%) and United Kingdom (7.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 21 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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.
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.
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