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Perspectives in Biology and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ISSN 0031-5982Verify ISSN ↗1529-8795Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 73 / 254 | 71st | Q2 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 38 / 53 | 29th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 236 / 330 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1957–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine is Q2 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 73 of 254), Q3 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 38 of 53) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 236 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.270, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 58.
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 0031-5982 and its online ISSN is 1529-8795.
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.
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine has an h-index of 99 and a 2-year mean of 0.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 70. 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. 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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