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Springer Biographies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0). Published by Springer International Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2365-0613Verify ISSN ↗2365-0621Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 667 / 692 | 1st | Q4 |
| History | 1888 / 1936 | 1st | Q4 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 735 / 744 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Springer Biographies is Q4 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 667 of 692), Q4 in History (rank 1888 of 1936) and Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 735 of 744), by CiteScore 2025.
Springer Biographies 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 0, quartile Q4, 1st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Springer Biographies is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2365-0613 and its online ISSN is 2365-0621.
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.
Springer Biographies has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #469 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Springer Biographies published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 177. 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.
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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