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Biotechnology Law Report

Mary Ann Liebert Inc. · United States · Est. 1982

ISSN1557-8704

SJR Q4✓ 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.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q4. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

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

SJR Scorei

0.159

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.244

Total Worksi

4,952

Total Citationsi

4,035

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.16

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology; Biotechnology; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1982

Annual Volume~ 42 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications4,952

Publisher OrgMary Ann Liebert, Inc.

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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?

Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1557-8704

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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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

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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.

BiotechnologyQ4

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Scopus Categories

BiotechnologyManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Intellectual Property and PatentsBiomedical Ethics and RegulationGenetically Modified Organisms ResearchLaw, AI, and Intellectual PropertyLegal Systems and Judicial ProcessesIntellectual Property LawInternational Arbitration and Investment LawLegal Cases and CommentaryPharmaceutical Economics and PolicyCRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Frequently asked questions about Biotechnology Law Report

Is Biotechnology Law Report a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Biotechnology Law Report: 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 Biotechnology Law Report?

Biotechnology Law Report 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 0.16.

Is Biotechnology Law Report indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Biotechnology Law Report is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Biotechnology Law Report?