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IUBMB Life is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1521-6543Verify ISSN ↗1521-6551Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$4,430 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics | 90 / 357 | 74th | Q2 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 32 / 124 | 74th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry | 134 / 448 | 70th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 152 / 414 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Cell Biology | 118 / 289 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.8.
IUBMB Life is Q2 in Genetics (rank 90 of 357), Q2 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 32 of 124) and Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 134 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
IUBMB Life 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.145, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 144.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,430 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.
IUBMB Life is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1521-6543 and its online ISSN is 1521-6551.
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.
IUBMB Life has an h-index of 157 and a 2-year mean of 2.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #149 of 353 Scopus journals in Genetics.
IUBMB Life published 115 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 234. 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 China (49.8%), Italy (9.1%) and United States (7.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 18 retracted papers are recorded (3.3 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.
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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