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Synthetic Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1939-7267Verify ISSN ↗2397-7000Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 77 / 253 | 69th | Q2 |
| Biotechnology | 179 / 325 | 45th | Q3 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 198 / 342 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Biomaterials | 94 / 146 | 35th | Q3 |
| Bioengineering | 118 / 168 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Synthetic Biology is Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 77 of 253), Q3 in Biotechnology (rank 179 of 325) and Q3 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 198 of 342), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Synthetic 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.946, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,250 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 Biology is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1939-7267 and its online ISSN is 2397-7000.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Synthetic Biology has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 3.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Synthetic Biology published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 36. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (41%), United Kingdom (14.6%) and Germany (8.2%).
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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