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Engineering in Life Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag.
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Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 53 / 241 | 78th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 80 / 325 | 75th | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 52 / 168 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.2.
Engineering in Life Sciences is Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 53 of 241), Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 80 of 325) and Q2 in Bioengineering (rank 52 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Engineering in Life Sciences 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 8.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.880, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 87.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,300 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.
Engineering in Life Sciences is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag. Its print ISSN is 1618-0240 and its online ISSN is 1618-2863.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Engineering in Life Sciences has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 2.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #96 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
Engineering in Life Sciences published 85 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 136. 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 89 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (46.4%), China (19.1%) and United States (10.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (3.2 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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