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Materials Today Bio is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2590-0064Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molecular Biology | 50 / 414 | 88th | Q1 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 45 / 342 | 86th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 45 / 325 | 86th | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 26 / 168 | 84th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 45 / 289 | 84th | Q1 |
| Biomaterials | 25 / 146 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.
Materials Today Bio is Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 50 of 414), Q1 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 45 of 342) and Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 45 of 325), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Materials Today Bio 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 12, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.885, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 78.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
Materials Today Bio is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2590-0064.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Materials Today Bio has an h-index of 92 and a 2-year mean of 6.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #63 of 411 Scopus journals in Molecular Biology.
Materials Today Bio published 1,296 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (78.4%), United States (5.1%) and South Korea (2.6%). 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 (0.6 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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