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Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2405-805XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics | 74 / 357 | 79th | Q1 |
| Structural Biology | 11 / 51 | 79th | Q1 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 37 / 134 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 96 / 342 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology is Q1 in Genetics (rank 74 of 357), Q1 in Structural Biology (rank 11 of 51) and Q2 in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (rank 37 of 134), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.014, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,500 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.
Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2405-805X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 4.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 353 Scopus journals in Genetics.
Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology published 172 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (90.9%), United States (1.5%) and Japan (1.4%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.1 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.
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