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Tropical Life Sciences Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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ISSN 1985-3718Verify ISSN ↗2180-4249Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 222 / 669 | 66th | Q2 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 91 / 235 | 61st | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 126 / 223 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Tropical Life Sciences Research is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 222 of 669), Q2 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 91 of 235) and Q3 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 126 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Tropical Life Sciences Research 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.368, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
Tropical Life Sciences Research is published by Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia. Its print ISSN is 1985-3718 and its online ISSN is 2180-4249.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Tropical Life Sciences Research has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 1.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #210 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Tropical Life Sciences Research published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 48. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (42%), Indonesia (23.9%) and Thailand (8.6%).
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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