GENESIS

WILEY · US · Est. 1974

ISSN1526-954XeISSN1526-968X

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.87

H-Indexi

134

SNIPi

0.568

Total Worksi

2,672

Total Citationsi

93,545

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.30

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Developmental Biology; Genetics & Heredity; Endocrinology; Genetics; Medicine (miscellaneous); Cell Biology.

General Information

Country / RegionUS

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1974

Annual Volume~ 55 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,672

Publisher OrgWiley

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

WILEY

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1526-954X / 1526-968X

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

915

2019

369

2020

409

2021

502

2022

280

2023

115

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

EndocrinologyQ2

GeneticsQ2

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q2

Cell BiologyQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Developmental BiologyGenetics & Heredity

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Developmental Biology and Gene RegulationAnimal Genetics and ReproductionCRISPR and Genetic EngineeringCongenital heart defects researchPluripotent Stem Cells ResearchGenomics and Chromatin DynamicsEpigenetics and DNA MethylationGenetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal AbnormalitiesRNA Research and SplicingRNA Interference and Gene Delivery

Frequently asked questions about GENESIS

Is GENESIS a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for GENESIS: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of GENESIS?

GENESIS is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.30.

Is GENESIS indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

GENESIS is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of GENESIS?