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Life Metabolism is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 2097-2555Verify ISSN ↗2755-0230Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 49 / 144 | 66th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry (medical) | 30 / 78 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 121 / 250 | 51st | Q2 |
| Cell Biology | 199 / 289 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Life Metabolism is Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 49 of 144), Q2 in Biochemistry (medical) (rank 30 of 78) and Q2 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 121 of 250), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Life Metabolism is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.341, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 12.
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Life Metabolism is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 2097-2555 and its online ISSN is 2755-0230.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Life Metabolism has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 4.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 141 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous).
Life Metabolism published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 51. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (62.1%), United States (18.3%) and Canada (3.1%). 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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