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Genome Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1474-7596Verify ISSN ↗1474-760XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 11 / 736 | 98th | Q1 |
| Genetics | 15 / 357 | 95th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 34 / 289 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.5.
Genome Biology is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 11 of 736), Q1 in Genetics (rank 15 of 357) and Q1 in Cell Biology (rank 34 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Genome Biology 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 14.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.792, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 332.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,490 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.
Genome Biology is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1474-7596 and its online ISSN is 1474-760X.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Genome Biology has an h-index of 401 and a 2-year mean of 9.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Genome Biology published 452 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (31.7%), United States (25.7%) and Germany (8.2%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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