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Biological Letters

De Gruyter Open Ltd · Poland · Est. 2002

ISSN1644-7700

SJR Q4✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2022-04-26). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal not adhering to Best practice. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 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

0.144

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

378

Total Citationsi

1,431

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous); Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionPoland

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2002

Annual Volume~ 6 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications378

Publisher OrgDe Gruyter Open

OA Since2008

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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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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

De Gruyter Open Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1644-7700

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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?

N/A

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

139

2011

114

2012

102

2013

2014

2015

2016

2019

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)Q4

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)Q4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Study of Mite SpeciesInsect-Plant Interactions and ControlPlant tissue culture and regenerationBotany and Plant Ecology StudiesInvertebrate Taxonomy and EcologyInsect and Pesticide ResearchPlant Genetic and Mutation StudiesBotanical Research and ChemistryPlant Stress Responses and ToleranceSeed Germination and Physiology

Frequently asked questions about Biological Letters

Is Biological Letters a predatory journal?

Biological Letters was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2022-04-26). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Biological Letters?

Biological Letters is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.144.

Is Biological Letters indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Biological Letters is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Biological Letters?