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Journal of Bionic Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1672-6529Verify ISSN ↗2543-2141Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biophysics | 15 / 155 | 90th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 59 / 325 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 35 / 168 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.5.
Journal of Bionic Engineering is Q1 in Biophysics (rank 15 of 155), Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 59 of 325) and Q1 in Bioengineering (rank 35 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Bionic Engineering 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 9.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.760, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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 Bionic Engineering is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1672-6529 and its online ISSN is 2543-2141.
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 Bionic Engineering has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 4.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 154 Scopus journals in Biophysics.
Journal of Bionic Engineering published 192 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 195. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (73.4%), Iran (5%) and India (4%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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