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Metabolic Engineering Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2214-0301Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 38 / 250 | 85th | Q1 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 76 / 342 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.7.
Metabolic Engineering Communications is Q1 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 38 of 250) and Q1 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 76 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Metabolic Engineering Communications 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 8.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.990, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,040 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.
Metabolic Engineering Communications is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2214-0301.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Metabolic Engineering Communications has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 5.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 246 Scopus journals in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
Metabolic Engineering Communications published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 40. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (26%), Germany (12.8%) and Japan (9.8%).
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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