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Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0939-5075Verify ISSN ↗1865-7125Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 85 / 223 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences is Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 85 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.425, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 83.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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.
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0939-5075 and its online ISSN is 1865-7125.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences has an h-index of 105 and a 2-year mean of 3.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 221 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all).
Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 93. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (25.5%), Türkiye (10.3%) and Pakistan (9.6%).
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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