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Essays in Biochemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Portland Press Ltd.
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ISSN 0071-1365Verify ISSN ↗1744-1358Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 47 / 448 | 89th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 57 / 414 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1989–1992, 1985–1987, 1967–1983, 1965), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.3.
Essays in Biochemistry is Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 47 of 448) and Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 57 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Essays in Biochemistry 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 11.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.735, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 99.
Essays in Biochemistry is published by Portland Press Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0071-1365 and its online ISSN is 1744-1358.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Essays in Biochemistry has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 6.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Essays in Biochemistry published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 105. 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 Kingdom (26.8%), United States (15%) and China (12.3%).
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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