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Developmental and Comparative Immunology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0145-305XVerify ISSN ↗1879-0089Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,340 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Science | 55 / 259 | 78th | Q1 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) | 11 / 43 | 75th | Q1 |
| Developmental Biology | 40 / 78 | 49th | Q3 |
| Immunology | 136 / 243 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Developmental and Comparative Immunology is Q1 in Aquatic Science (rank 55 of 259), Q1 in Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) (rank 11 of 43) and Q3 in Developmental Biology (rank 40 of 78), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Developmental and Comparative Immunology 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.545, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 141.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,340 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.
Developmental and Comparative Immunology is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0145-305X and its online ISSN is 1879-0089.
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.
Developmental and Comparative Immunology has an h-index of 163 and a 2-year mean of 1.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 254 Scopus journals in Aquatic Science.
Developmental and Comparative Immunology published 209 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 314. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (56%), South Korea (5.1%) and United States (5.1%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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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