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Heredity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 0018-067XVerify ISSN ↗1365-2540Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$2,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics (clinical) | 20 / 100 | 80th | Q1 |
| Genetics | 77 / 357 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1947–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.4.
Heredity is Q1 in Genetics (clinical) (rank 20 of 100) and Q1 in Genetics (rank 77 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Heredity 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 7.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.983, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 146.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,690 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.
Heredity is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 0018-067X and its online ISSN is 1365-2540.
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.
Heredity has an h-index of 213 and a 2-year mean of 2.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 99 Scopus journals in Genetics (clinical).
Heredity published 78 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 134. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.5%), United Kingdom (7.4%) and France (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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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