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Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Japan Academy.
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ISSN 0386-2208Verify ISSN ↗1349-2896Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japan Academy
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 27 / 235 | 88th | Q1 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 41 / 248 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences is Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 27 of 235) and Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 41 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.771, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 76.
Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences is published by Japan Academy. Its print ISSN is 0386-2208 and its online ISSN is 1349-2896.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences has an h-index of 94 and a 2-year mean of 3.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 53. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (88.4%), United States (2.6%) and China (1.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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