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Molecular Biology Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 0301-4851Verify ISSN ↗1573-4978Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics | 123 / 357 | 65th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 192 / 414 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present (also 1973–1988), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.8.
Molecular Biology Reports is Q2 in Genetics (rank 123 of 357) and Q2 in Molecular Biology (rank 192 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular Biology Reports 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.743, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 103.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,290 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.
Molecular Biology Reports is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 0301-4851 and its online ISSN is 1573-4978.
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 Reports has an h-index of 118 and a 2-year mean of 3.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 353 Scopus journals in Genetics.
Molecular Biology Reports published 1,197 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 1,217. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (25%), India (22.7%) and Iran (12.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 120 retracted papers are recorded (8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 15 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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