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Growth Factors is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0897-7194Verify ISSN ↗1029-2292Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Biochemistry | 65 / 124 | 47th | Q3 |
| Endocrinology | 82 / 132 | 38th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 202 / 289 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 1988–2020), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 4.2.
Growth Factors is Q3 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 65 of 124), Q3 in Endocrinology (rank 82 of 132) and Q3 in Cell Biology (rank 202 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Growth Factors 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.617, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 68.
Growth Factors is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0897-7194 and its online ISSN is 1029-2292.
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.
Growth Factors has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 1.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 121 Scopus journals in Clinical Biochemistry.
Growth Factors published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 25. 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 86 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (41.9%), Iran (9.7%) and India (8.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (3.1 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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