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Differentiation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), 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 0301-4681Verify ISSN ↗1432-0436Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental Biology | 37 / 78 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 243 / 414 | 41st | Q3 |
| Cancer Research | 138 / 233 | 40th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 184 / 289 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Differentiation is Q2 in Developmental Biology (rank 37 of 78), Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 243 of 414) and Q3 in Cancer Research (rank 138 of 233), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Differentiation 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.144, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 111.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Differentiation is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0301-4681 and its online ISSN is 1432-0436.
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.
Differentiation has an h-index of 147 and a 2-year mean of 3.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 76 Scopus journals in Developmental Biology.
Differentiation published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 55. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.3%), China (16.5%) and India (9.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 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.
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