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Molecular Brain is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1756-6606Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molecular Biology | 195 / 414 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 49 / 102 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.7.
Molecular Brain is Q2 in Molecular Biology (rank 195 of 414) and Q2 in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (rank 49 of 102), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular Brain 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.236, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 88.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,890 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 Brain is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1756-6606.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Molecular Brain has an h-index of 100 and a 2-year mean of 4.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 411 Scopus journals in Molecular Biology.
Molecular Brain published 100 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 176. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (25.1%), South Korea (20.5%) and United States (15%).
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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