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IET Biometrics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 2047-4938Verify ISSN ↗2047-4946Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | 56 / 183 | 69th | Q2 |
| Signal Processing | 63 / 203 | 69th | Q2 |
| Software | 205 / 503 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.9.
IET Biometrics is Q2 in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (rank 56 of 183), Q2 in Signal Processing (rank 63 of 203) and Q2 in Software (rank 205 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
IET Biometrics 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.363, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 47.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,210 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.
IET Biometrics is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2047-4938 and its online ISSN is 2047-4946.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IET Biometrics has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #59 of 110 Scopus journals in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
IET Biometrics published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 69. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (39.5%), Germany (5.2%) and United States (4.6%).
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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