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Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

BioMed Central Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 2004

ISSN1742-4682

SJR Q2✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2022-01-06). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is inactive. 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

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.516

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

646

Total Citationsi

19,571

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Modeling and Simulation; Health Informatics; Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2004

Annual Volume~ 18 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2021)

Total Publications646

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

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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?

BioMed Central Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1742-4682

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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?

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

2.1k

2014

874

2015

493

2016

540

2017

561

2018

448

2019

161

2020

236

2021

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.

Modeling and SimulationQ2

Health InformaticsQ3

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Health InformaticsMedicine (miscellaneous)Modeling and Simulation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Gene Regulatory Network AnalysisMathematical Biology Tumor GrowthCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesBioinformatics and Genomic NetworksCancer Cells and MetastasisMathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology ModelsGene expression and cancer classificationHIV Research and TreatmentComputational Drug Discovery MethodsCardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias

Frequently asked questions about Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling

Is Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling a predatory journal?

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is inactive" (2022-01-06). 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 Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling?

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.516.

Is Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling?