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Virus Genes is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0920-8569Verify ISSN ↗1572-994XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virology | 44 / 86 | 49th | Q3 |
| Genetics | 198 / 357 | 44th | Q3 |
| Molecular Biology | 278 / 414 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.9.
Virus Genes is Q3 in Virology (rank 44 of 86), Q3 in Genetics (rank 198 of 357) and Q3 in Molecular Biology (rank 278 of 414), by CiteScore 2025.
Virus Genes 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.541, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 70.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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.
Virus Genes is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0920-8569 and its online ISSN is 1572-994X.
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.
Virus Genes has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 2.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 85 Scopus journals in Virology.
Virus Genes published 80 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 107. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (25%), India (18.9%) and United States (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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