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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Royal Society Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0962-8452Verify ISSN ↗1471-2954Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 68 / 669 | 89th | Q1 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 32 / 235 | 86th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 58 / 223 | 74th | Q2 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (all) | 17 / 63 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 68 / 249 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1949–present (also 1946–1947), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences is Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 68 of 669), Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 32 of 235) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 58 of 223), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Proceedings 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.408, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 313.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences is published by Royal Society Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0962-8452 and its online ISSN is 1471-2954.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences has an h-index of 404 and a 2-year mean of 4.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences published 605 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 638. 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 (19.5%), United Kingdom (14.3%) and Germany (8.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 26 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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