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Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1079-9907Verify ISSN ↗1557-7465Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virology | 50 / 86 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Immunology | 162 / 243 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 226 / 289 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.5.
Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research is Q3 in Virology (rank 50 of 86), Q3 in Immunology (rank 162 of 243) and Q4 in Cell Biology (rank 226 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.613, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 111.
Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1079-9907 and its online ISSN is 1557-7465.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research has an h-index of 123 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 85 Scopus journals in Virology.
Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 93. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (35.5%), United States (21.2%) and India (8.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.9 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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