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Virchows Archiv is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4), 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 0945-6317Verify ISSN ↗1432-2307Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 28 / 209 | 86th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 167 / 414 | 59th | Q2 |
| Cell Biology | 124 / 289 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present (also 1958, 1956, 1952–1954, 1950, 1947–1948), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Virchows Archiv is Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 28 of 209), Q2 in Molecular Biology (rank 167 of 414) and Q2 in Cell Biology (rank 124 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Virchows Archiv 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.221, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 119.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,790 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.
Virchows Archiv is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0945-6317 and its online ISSN is 1432-2307.
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.
Virchows Archiv has an h-index of 163 and a 2-year mean of 2.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Virchows Archiv published 363 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (18.5%), Japan (11.7%) and China (11.6%).
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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