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Stress Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2731-0450Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 14 / 520 | 97th | Q1 |
| Plant Science | 42 / 541 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 39 / 422 | 90th | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 36 / 194 | 81st | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.9.
Stress Biology is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 14 of 520), Q1 in Plant Science (rank 42 of 541) and Q1 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 39 of 422), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Stress 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 8.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.712, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 25.
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Stress Biology is published by Springer. Its ISSN is 2731-0450.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Stress Biology has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 7.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Stress Biology published 78 papers in 2025. 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 (76.3%), India (6.3%) and United States (4.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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