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Genes and Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1880-7046Verify ISSN ↗1880-7062Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Psychology | 130 / 315 | 58th | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 139 / 307 | 54th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 212 / 357 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 2006–2007), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Genes and Environment is Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 130 of 315), Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 139 of 307) and Q3 in Genetics (rank 212 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Genes and Environment 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.539, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,590 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.
Genes and Environment is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1880-7046 and its online ISSN is 1880-7062.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Genes and Environment has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 2.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #82 of 308 Scopus journals in Social Psychology.
Genes and Environment published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 62. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (65.2%), China (11.1%) and India (7.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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