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Malaysian Applied Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Malaysian Society of Applied Biology.
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ISSN 0126-8643Verify ISSN ↗2462-151XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Malaysian Society of Applied Biology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 141 / 235 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present (also 1986–1987, 1980), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Malaysian Applied Biology is Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 141 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Malaysian Applied Biology 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.226, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Malaysian Applied Biology is published by Malaysian Society of Applied Biology. Its print ISSN is 0126-8643 and its online ISSN is 2462-151X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Malaysian Applied Biology has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 1.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Malaysian Applied Biology published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 106. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (81.6%), Indonesia (5.4%) and India (3.4%). 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. 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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