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Meat and Muscle Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Iowa State University Digital Press.
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ISSN 2575-985XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Iowa State University Digital Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 104 / 520 | 80th | Q1 |
| Food Science | 182 / 420 | 56th | Q2 |
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 4.
Meat and Muscle Biology is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 104 of 520) and Q2 in Food Science (rank 182 of 420), by CiteScore 2025.
Meat and Muscle 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.630, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,000 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.
Meat and Muscle Biology is published by Iowa State University Digital Press. Its ISSN is 2575-985X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Meat and Muscle Biology has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #164 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Meat and Muscle Biology published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 509. 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 85 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (74.5%), Canada (4.1%) and Brazil (3.9%). 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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