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Journal of Biological Control is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Informatics Publishing Limited.
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ISSN 0971-930XVerify ISSN ↗2230-7281Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Informatics Publishing Limited
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insect Science | 167 / 193 | 13th | Q4 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 367 / 422 | 13th | Q4 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 119 / 134 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Biological Control is Q4 in Insect Science (rank 167 of 193), Q4 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 367 of 422) and Q4 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 119 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Biological Control is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4, 13th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.182, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
Journal of Biological Control is published by Informatics Publishing Limited. Its print ISSN is 0971-930X and its online ISSN is 2230-7281.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Biological Control has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #128 of 187 Scopus journals in Insect Science.
Journal of Biological Control published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 124. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (81.4%), Iraq (5.3%) and Philippines (2.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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