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Journal of Anatomy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), 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 0021-8782Verify ISSN ↗1469-7580Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$4,050 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 167 / 736 | 77th | Q1 |
| Anatomy | 13 / 50 | 75th | Q1 |
| Histology | 25 / 62 | 60th | Q2 |
| Developmental Biology | 44 / 78 | 44th | Q3 |
| Molecular Biology | 252 / 414 | 39th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 197 / 289 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1945–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Journal of Anatomy is Q1 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 167 of 736), Q1 in Anatomy (rank 13 of 50) and Q2 in Histology (rank 25 of 62), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Anatomy 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.694, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 145.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,050 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.
Journal of Anatomy is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0021-8782 and its online ISSN is 1469-7580.
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.
Journal of Anatomy has an h-index of 167 and a 2-year mean of 1.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #218 of 711 Scopus journals in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Journal of Anatomy published 211 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 259. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (25.9%), United Kingdom (15.9%) and Japan (9.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 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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