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Reports of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Varastegan Institute for Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 2322-3480Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Varastegan Institute for Medical Sciences
Cost to publish: About US$150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 200 / 466 | 57th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry (medical) | 41 / 78 | 48th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 315 / 448 | 29th | Q3 |
| Molecular Biology | 319 / 414 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Reports of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 200 of 466), Q3 in Biochemistry (medical) (rank 41 of 78) and Q3 in Biochemistry (rank 315 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Reports of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.533, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$150 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.
Reports of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is published by Varastegan Institute for Medical Sciences. Its ISSN is 2322-3480.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Reports of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #413 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Reports of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology published 20 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 70. 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 100 research articles (2021–2023), authors are most often from Iran (38.8%), Iraq (15%) and Egypt (14.5%).
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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