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Developmental Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0012-1606Verify ISSN ↗1095-564XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,550 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental Biology | 52 / 78 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Molecular Biology | 297 / 414 | 28th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 225 / 289 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1959–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.5.
Developmental Biology is Q3 in Developmental Biology (rank 52 of 78), Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 297 of 414) and Q4 in Cell Biology (rank 225 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Developmental Biology 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.040, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 257.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,550 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 Biology is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0012-1606 and its online ISSN is 1095-564X.
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 Biology has an h-index of 339 and a 2-year mean of 1.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 76 Scopus journals in Developmental Biology.
Developmental Biology published 295 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 347. 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (64%), Japan (6.1%) and India (4.5%). 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. 7 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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.
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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