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Development (Cambridge) is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Company of Biologists Ltd.
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ISSN 0950-1991Verify ISSN ↗1477-9129Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Company of Biologists Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental Biology | 30 / 78 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 210 / 414 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.4.
Development (Cambridge) is Q2 in Developmental Biology (rank 30 of 78) and Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 210 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Development (Cambridge) 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.600, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 377.
Development (Cambridge) is published by Company of Biologists Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0950-1991 and its online ISSN is 1477-9129.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Development (Cambridge) has an h-index of 474 and a 2-year mean of 3.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 76 Scopus journals in Developmental Biology.
Development (Cambridge) published 409 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 485. 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 79 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (46.6%), China (9.5%) and Germany (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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