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Journal of Biological Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 0218-3390Verify ISSN ↗1793-6470Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 292 / 680 | 57th | Q2 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 114 / 253 | 55th | Q2 |
| Ecology | 246 / 491 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Journal of Biological Systems is Q2 in Applied Mathematics (rank 292 of 680), Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 114 of 253) and Q2 in Ecology (rank 246 of 491), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Biological Systems 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.409, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 42.
Journal of Biological Systems is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 0218-3390 and its online ISSN is 1793-6470.
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 Biological Systems has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 1.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #286 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
Journal of Biological Systems published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 63. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (33.2%), India (18.6%) and United States (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (6.2 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.
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