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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Royal Society Publishing.
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ISSN 0962-8436Verify ISSN ↗1471-2970Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 10 / 235 | 95th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 28 / 223 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present (also 1950–1951, 1947), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.2.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences is Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 10 of 235) and Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 28 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological 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 10.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.725, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 350.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences is published by Royal Society Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0962-8436 and its online ISSN is 1471-2970.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences has an h-index of 425 and a 2-year mean of 9.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences published 440 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 480. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (31.5%), United Kingdom (22%) and Netherlands (6.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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