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Discover Developmental Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 3059-3247Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics | 270 / 357 | 24th | Q4 |
| Developmental Biology | 64 / 78 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 2.5.
Discover Developmental Biology is Q4 in Genetics (rank 270 of 357) and Q4 in Developmental Biology (rank 64 of 78), by CiteScore 2025.
Discover 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.467, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 85.
Discover Developmental Biology is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its ISSN is 3059-3247.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Discover Developmental Biology has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #326 of 353 Scopus journals in Genetics.
Discover Developmental Biology published 3 papers in 2025. 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.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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