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Defence Life Science Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre.
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ISSN 2456-0537Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 422 / 669 | 36th | Q3 |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) | 66 / 79 | 17th | Q4 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 198 / 235 | 15th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 199 / 223 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Defence Life Science Journal is Q3 in Medicine (all) (rank 422 of 669), Q4 in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) (rank 66 of 79) and Q4 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 198 of 235), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Defence Life Science Journal 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 0.8, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.149, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Defence Life Science Journal is published by Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre. Its ISSN is 2456-0537.
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.
Defence Life Science Journal has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #396 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Defence Life Science Journal published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 80. 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 70 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (95%), United States (2.1%) and Philippines (1.4%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (2.3 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.
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