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Emerging Topics in Life Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Portland Press Ltd.
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ISSN 2397-8554Verify ISSN ↗2397-8562Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 11 / 235 | 95th | Q1 |
| Medicine (all) | 37 / 669 | 94th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 29 / 223 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.9.
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences is Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 11 of 235), Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 37 of 669) and Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 29 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 9.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.388, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences is published by Portland Press Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2397-8554 and its online ISSN is 2397-8562.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 3.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #43 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 84. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (44.8%), United States (21%) and Australia (5.6%).
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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