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Discover Life is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 2948-2968Verify ISSN ↗2948-2976Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 424 / 736 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Space and Planetary Science | 71 / 105 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Discover Life is Q3 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 424 of 736) and Q3 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 71 of 105), by CiteScore 2025.
Discover Life 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.305, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 76.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,520 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.
Discover Life is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 2948-2968 and its online ISSN is 2948-2976.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discover Life has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 1.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #233 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Discover Life published 40 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.
In its latest 93 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (19.5%), Ethiopia (13.2%) and China (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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