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Molecular Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 0026-8933Verify ISSN ↗1608-3245Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biophysics | 126 / 155 | 19th | Q4 |
| Structural Biology | 49 / 51 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1979–1982, 1971–1976), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.7.
Molecular Biology is Q4 in Biophysics (rank 126 of 155) and Q4 in Structural Biology (rank 49 of 51), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular Biology 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 19th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.344, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 33.
Molecular Biology is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0026-8933 and its online ISSN is 1608-3245.
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.
Molecular Biology has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 0.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 154 Scopus journals in Biophysics.
Molecular Biology published 164 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 221. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (55.4%), China (28%) and India (6.5%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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