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Theory in Biosciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1431-7613Verify ISSN ↗1611-7530Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics and Probability | 88 / 303 | 71st | Q2 |
| Applied Mathematics | 204 / 680 | 70th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 253 / 736 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Theory in Biosciences is Q2 in Statistics and Probability (rank 88 of 303), Q2 in Applied Mathematics (rank 204 of 680) and Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 253 of 736), by CiteScore 2025.
Theory in Biosciences 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.361, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 45.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 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.
Theory in Biosciences is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1431-7613 and its online ISSN is 1611-7530.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Theory in Biosciences has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 1.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 294 Scopus journals in Statistics and Probability.
Theory in Biosciences published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 35. 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (13%), United States (9.6%) and China (8.1%).
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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