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Peptide Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 2475-8817Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,920 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biophysics | 94 / 155 | 39th | Q3 |
| Organic Chemistry | 136 / 215 | 36th | Q3 |
| Biomaterials | 95 / 146 | 35th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 301 / 448 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.3.
Peptide Science is Q3 in Biophysics (rank 94 of 155), Q3 in Organic Chemistry (rank 136 of 215) and Q3 in Biomaterials (rank 95 of 146), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Peptide Science 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 Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.394, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,920 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.
Peptide Science is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2475-8817.
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.
Peptide Science has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #85 of 154 Scopus journals in Biophysics.
Peptide Science published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 87. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (29.4%), China (15.8%) and United States (13.6%).
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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