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Lifestyle Genomics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 2504-3161Verify ISSN ↗2504-3188Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 156 / 466 | 66th | Q2 |
| Food Science | 179 / 420 | 57th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 193 / 357 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Lifestyle Genomics is Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 156 of 466), Q2 in Food Science (rank 179 of 420) and Q3 in Genetics (rank 193 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Lifestyle Genomics 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 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 0.611, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 38.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,670 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.
Lifestyle Genomics is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 2504-3161 and its online ISSN is 2504-3188.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Lifestyle Genomics has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 2.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Lifestyle Genomics published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 26. 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 74 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Canada (20.3%), United States (14.3%) and Mexico (10.1%).
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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