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FEBS Open Bio is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 2211-5463Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 73 / 223 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.1.
FEBS Open Bio is Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 73 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
FEBS Open Bio 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.919, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,210 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.
FEBS Open Bio is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2211-5463.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
FEBS Open Bio has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 2.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 221 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all).
FEBS Open Bio published 224 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 316. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Japan (17.2%), United States (12.1%) and United Kingdom (7.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 81 retracted papers are recorded (27.9 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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