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Open Life Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 2391-5412Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 74 / 235 | 68th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 113 / 223 | 49th | Q3 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (all) | 34 / 63 | 46th | Q3 |
| Neuroscience (all) | 78 / 112 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Open Life Sciences is Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 74 of 235), Q3 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 113 of 223) and Q3 in Immunology and Microbiology (all) (rank 34 of 63), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Open Life Sciences 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.529, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 53.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,373 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.
Open Life Sciences is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its ISSN is 2391-5412.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Life Sciences has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 2.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Open Life Sciences published 228 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 260. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (78.3%), Türkiye (3.1%) and Saudi Arabia (2.8%). 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. 13 retracted papers are recorded (5.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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