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Theoretical Biology Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Fabrizio Serra Editore Srl.
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ISSN 2282-2593Verify ISSN ↗2283-7175Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra Editore Srl
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 116 / 235 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025 (also 1949–1994), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Theoretical Biology Forum is Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 116 of 235), by CiteScore 2025.
Theoretical Biology Forum 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.113, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 20.
Theoretical Biology Forum is published by Fabrizio Serra Editore Srl. Its print ISSN is 2282-2593 and its online ISSN is 2283-7175.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Theoretical Biology Forum has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #198 of 224 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all).
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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