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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7). Published by Asian Network for Scientific Information.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1028-8880Verify ISSN ↗1812-5735Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Asian Network for Scientific Information
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 269 / 422 | 36th | 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 2006–present (also 2003), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences is Q3 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 269 of 422), by CiteScore 2025.
Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences 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 1.7, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.236, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 58.
Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences is published by Asian Network for Scientific Information. Its print ISSN is 1028-8880 and its online ISSN is 1812-5735.
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.
Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #262 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences published 74 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 199. 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.
Scopus status: Active. 5 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.
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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