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Recent Patents on Biotechnology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.7). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Bentham Science Publishers.
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ISSN 1872-2083Verify ISSN ↗2212-4012Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biotechnology | 178 / 325 | 45th | Q3 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 79 / 134 | 41st | Q3 |
| Bioengineering | 117 / 168 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.7.
Recent Patents on Biotechnology is Q3 in Biotechnology (rank 178 of 325), Q3 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 79 of 134) and Q3 in Bioengineering (rank 117 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Recent Patents on Biotechnology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q3, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.340, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 46.
Recent Patents on Biotechnology is published by Bentham Science Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1872-2083 and its online ISSN is 2212-4012.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Recent Patents on Biotechnology has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 1.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #199 of 309 Scopus journals in Biotechnology.
Recent Patents on Biotechnology published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 52. 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 84 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (39.9%), Iran (16.5%) and Brazil (13.1%).
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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