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Molecular Biology Research Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Shiraz University.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2322-181XVerify ISSN ↗2345-2005Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Shiraz University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 361 / 448 | 19th | Q4 |
| Molecular Biology | 352 / 414 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.9.
Molecular Biology Research Communications is Q4 in Biochemistry (rank 361 of 448) and Q4 in Molecular Biology (rank 352 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular Biology Research 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 19th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.277, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 19.
Molecular Biology Research Communications is published by Shiraz University. Its print ISSN is 2322-181X and its online ISSN is 2345-2005.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Molecular Biology Research Communications has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #427 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Molecular Biology Research Communications published 1 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 17. 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (33.3 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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