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Current Topics in Developmental Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.2). Published by Academic Press Inc..
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Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental Biology | 32 / 78 | 58th | Q2 |
| Cell Biology | 170 / 289 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1990–2001, 1986–1987, 1982–1984, 1977–1980, 1974–1975, 1966–1972), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.2.
Current Topics in Developmental Biology is Q2 in Developmental Biology (rank 32 of 78) and Q3 in Cell Biology (rank 170 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Current Topics in Developmental Biology 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 5.2, quartile Q2, 58th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.471, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 119.
Current Topics in Developmental Biology is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0070-2153 and its online ISSN is 1557-8933.
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.
Current Topics in Developmental Biology has an h-index of 147 and a 2-year mean of 1.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 76 Scopus journals in Developmental Biology.
Current Topics in Developmental Biology published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 104. 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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