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Process Biochemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1359-5113Verify ISSN ↗1873-3298Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,970 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 71 / 448 | 84th | Q1 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 23 / 134 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 42 / 168 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present (also 1973–1975, 1953–1955, 1950), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.9.
Process Biochemistry is Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 71 of 448), Q1 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 23 of 134) and Q1 in Bioengineering (rank 42 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Process Biochemistry 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 8.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.739, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 195.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,970 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.
Process Biochemistry is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1359-5113 and its online ISSN is 1873-3298.
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.
Process Biochemistry has an h-index of 209 and a 2-year mean of 5.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #66 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Process Biochemistry published 249 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 448. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35.5%), India (11.6%) and Spain (5.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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