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Mechanisms of Ageing and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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ISSN 0047-6374Verify ISSN ↗1872-6216Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,780 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental Biology | 6 / 78 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Aging | 8 / 42 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.1.
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development is Q1 in Developmental Biology (rank 6 of 78) and Q1 in Aging (rank 8 of 42), by CiteScore 2025.
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development 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 10.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.897, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 146.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,780 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.
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development is published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0047-6374 and its online ISSN is 1872-6216.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development has an h-index of 173 and a 2-year mean of 4.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 76 Scopus journals in Developmental Biology.
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development published 86 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 169. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (24%), Italy (14.4%) and United States (9.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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