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Reproductive Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1642-431XVerify ISSN ↗2300-732XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,750 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 76 / 520 | 85th | Q1 |
| Developmental Biology | 46 / 78 | 41st | Q3 |
| Endocrinology | 79 / 132 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 2001), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
Reproductive Biology is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 76 of 520), Q3 in Developmental Biology (rank 46 of 78) and Q3 in Endocrinology (rank 79 of 132), by CiteScore 2025.
Reproductive Biology 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.684, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 52.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,750 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.
Reproductive Biology is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1642-431X and its online ISSN is 2300-732X.
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.
Reproductive Biology has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 2.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Reproductive Biology published 101 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 110. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (23.3%), Brazil (16.5%) and India (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.7 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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