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Open Biotechnology Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8). Published by Bentham Science Publishers.
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ISSN 1874-0707Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biotechnology | 239 / 325 | 26th | Q3 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 263 / 342 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Biophysics | 124 / 155 | 20th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry | 369 / 448 | 17th | Q4 |
| Bioengineering | 142 / 168 | 15th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Open Biotechnology Journal is Q3 in Biotechnology (rank 239 of 325), Q4 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 263 of 342) and Q4 in Biophysics (rank 124 of 155), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Open Biotechnology Journal 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 1.8, quartile Q3, 26th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.264, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
Open Biotechnology Journal is published by Bentham Science Publishers. Its ISSN is 1874-0707.
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.
Open Biotechnology Journal has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #215 of 309 Scopus journals in Biotechnology.
Open Biotechnology Journal published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 29. 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 79 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (15.2%), Iraq (12.7%) and Ethiopia (11.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (5.2 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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