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Prion is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Landes Bioscience.
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ISSN 1933-6896Verify ISSN ↗1933-690XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 164 / 361 | 54th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry | 272 / 448 | 39th | Q3 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 72 / 102 | 29th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 216 / 289 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Prion is Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 164 of 361), Q3 in Biochemistry (rank 272 of 448) and Q3 in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (rank 72 of 102), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Prion 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.459, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 52.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,993 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.
Prion is published by Landes Bioscience. Its print ISSN is 1933-6896 and its online ISSN is 1933-690X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Prion has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 2.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #149 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Prion published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 55. 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 77 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.5%), China (13.2%) and Japan (13%).
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.
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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