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Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Academie des sciences · France · Est. 1884

ISSN1768-3238

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

/ 100

Medium Risk

Score Breakdown

✓ WoS SCIE/SSCI+25

✓ Scopus Q2+18

✓ DOAJ Verified+15

Total58

Journal Impact Factor

This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗

SJR Score

0.308

H-Index

105

CiteScore

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Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIP

0.214

Total Works

2,498

Total Citations

59,825

2yr Mean Citedness

0.80

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Aims & Scope✦ Inferred from recent articles

This journal publishes research on the biological sciences, with recent articles focusing on evolutionary transitions, agroecosystem responses to climate change, visual cortex organization, cell competition, viral diversity and evolution, biological security and threats, forest ecology and climate change adaptation, ethical and societal implications of biotechnology, soil health and ecosystem services, risks associated with biological research, human-wildlife coexistence, insect cognition, biodiversity monitoring, ribosome structure and function, gene drive technologies, the origin of SARS-CoV-2, forest fungi, organoid development, and protein synthesis.

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⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

weeks to review

Fast · median is 15 wks

SJR Rank

Top 50% in field

General Information

Country / RegionFrance

Primary LanguageFrench

1st Year Published1884

Annual Volume~ 40 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,498

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

OA Since2019

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Submission Info

APC Cost💎 Diamond OA — Free

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

Review Time~9 weeks

Acceptance Rate—

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

📦 Long-term Preservation

CLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/12 · 83%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Academie des sciences

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1768-3238

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

No APC (Free)

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

French

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Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Times cited

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

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

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)Q2

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)Q3

Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous)Q3

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Biology

Scopus Categories

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

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationEducational Robotics and EngineeringPlant and animal studiesLegal case studies and regulationsInsect and Arachnid Ecology and BehaviorGenetic diversity and population structureFrench Urban and Social StudiesEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesAmphibian and Reptile Biology