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International Journal of Developmental Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SCIE. Published by UPV/EHU Press.
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ISSN 0214-6282Verify ISSN ↗1696-3547Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: UPV/EHU Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embryology | 14 / 25 | 46th | Q3 |
| Developmental Biology | 68 / 78 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
International Journal of Developmental Biology is Q3 in Embryology (rank 14 of 25) and Q4 in Developmental Biology (rank 68 of 78), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Developmental 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.517, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 123.
International Journal of Developmental Biology is published by UPV/EHU Press. Its print ISSN is 0214-6282 and its online ISSN is 1696-3547.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Developmental Biology has an h-index of 146 and a 2-year mean of 2.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 25 Scopus journals in Embryology.
International Journal of Developmental Biology published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 96. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from Greece (23.2%), China (11.6%) and United States (9.6%).
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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