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Molecular Immunology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0161-5890Verify ISSN ↗1872-9142Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,340 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immunology | 90 / 243 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 178 / 414 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present (also 1975), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.1.
Molecular Immunology is Q2 in Immunology (rank 90 of 243) and Q2 in Molecular Biology (rank 178 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Molecular Immunology 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.969, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 160.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,340 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 Immunology is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0161-5890 and its online ISSN is 1872-9142.
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 Immunology has an h-index of 182 and a 2-year mean of 3.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #98 of 240 Scopus journals in Immunology.
Molecular Immunology published 214 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 549. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (82.2%), United States (2.5%) and South Korea (2%). 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. 11 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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