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Genes and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
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ISSN 0890-9369Verify ISSN ↗1549-5477Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics | 36 / 357 | 90th | Q1 |
| Developmental Biology | 9 / 78 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.7.
Genes and Development is Q1 in Genetics (rank 36 of 357) and Q1 in Developmental Biology (rank 9 of 78), by CiteScore 2025.
Genes and Development 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 9.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.302, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 499.
Genes and Development is published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Its print ISSN is 0890-9369 and its online ISSN is 1549-5477.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Genes and Development has an h-index of 597 and a 2-year mean of 4.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 353 Scopus journals in Genetics.
Genes and Development published 118 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 211. 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. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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