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Protein Engineering, Design and Selection is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1741-0126Verify ISSN ↗1741-0134Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,656 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biotechnology | 140 / 325 | 57th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry | 201 / 448 | 55th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 211 / 414 | 49th | Q3 |
| Bioengineering | 89 / 168 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 1986–1996), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.4.
Protein Engineering, Design and Selection is Q2 in Biotechnology (rank 140 of 325), Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 201 of 448) and Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 211 of 414), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Protein Engineering, Design and Selection 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.979, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 124.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,656 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.
Protein Engineering, Design and Selection is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1741-0126 and its online ISSN is 1741-0134.
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.
Protein Engineering, Design and Selection has an h-index of 159 and a 2-year mean of 3.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #135 of 309 Scopus journals in Biotechnology.
Protein Engineering, Design and Selection published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 68. 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.5%), Germany (9.2%) and Canada (4.8%).
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.
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