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EXCLI Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors.
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ISSN 1611-2156Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 16 / 520 | 97th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology | 52 / 328 | 84th | Q1 |
| Drug Discovery | 33 / 161 | 79th | Q1 |
| Molecular Medicine | 46 / 179 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
EXCLI Journal is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 16 of 520), Q1 in Pharmacology (rank 52 of 328) and Q1 in Drug Discovery (rank 33 of 161), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
EXCLI Journal 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.162, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 68.
EXCLI Journal is published by Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors. Its ISSN is 1611-2156.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
EXCLI Journal has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #453 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
EXCLI Journal published 1 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2009 with 1. 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (500 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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