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Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.3). Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1386-1964Verify ISSN ↗1879-2871Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,380 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics | 230 / 357 | 35th | Q3 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 98 / 151 | 35th | Q3 |
| Molecular Biology | 307 / 414 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.3.
Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis is Q3 in Genetics (rank 230 of 357), Q3 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 98 of 151) and Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 307 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q3, 35th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.503, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 179.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,380 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.
Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1386-1964 and its online ISSN is 1879-2871.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis has an h-index of 218 and a 2-year mean of 1.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #231 of 353 Scopus journals in Genetics.
Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 63. 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 89 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (43.6%), India (12.9%) and United States (7.5%).
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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