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Sexual Development is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7), WoS SCIE. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 1661-5425Verify ISSN ↗1661-5433Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embryology | 2 / 25 | 94th | Q1 |
| Developmental Biology | 19 / 78 | 76th | Q1 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 64 / 250 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.
Sexual Development is Q1 in Embryology (rank 2 of 25), Q1 in Developmental Biology (rank 19 of 78) and Q2 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 64 of 250), by CiteScore 2025.
Sexual Development 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 7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.069, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 59.
Sexual Development is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 1661-5425 and its online ISSN is 1661-5433.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sexual Development has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 25 Scopus journals in Embryology.
Sexual Development published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 59. 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 85 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Japan (12.7%), Brazil (12.3%) and United States (11.1%).
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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