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Current Opinion in Systems Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2452-3100Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,170 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 108 / 680 | 84th | Q1 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 89 / 397 | 77th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 77 / 223 | 65th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 378 / 1022 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Drug Discovery | 75 / 161 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Current Opinion in Systems Biology is Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 108 of 680), Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 89 of 397) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 77 of 223), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Current Opinion in Systems Biology is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.298, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 43.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,170 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 Opinion in Systems Biology is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2452-3100.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Current Opinion in Systems Biology has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 3.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
Current Opinion in Systems Biology published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 139. 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (18.7%), Germany (17.9%) and South Korea (9.3%).
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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