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Methods in Enzymology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 2). Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 0076-6879Verify ISSN ↗1557-7988Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 357 / 448 | 20th | Q4 |
| Molecular Biology | 350 / 414 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1966–present (also 1962–1964, 1957, 1955), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 2.
Methods in Enzymology is Q4 in Biochemistry (rank 357 of 448) and Q4 in Molecular Biology (rank 350 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Methods in Enzymology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q4, 20th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.388, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 187.
Methods in Enzymology is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0076-6879 and its online ISSN is 1557-7988.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Methods in Enzymology has an h-index of 380 and a 2-year mean of 0.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #370 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Methods in Enzymology published 374 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 425. 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.
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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