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BioScience Trends

International Advancement Center for Medicine and Health Research Co., Ltd. · Japan · Est. 1950

ISSN1881-7823

SJR Q1✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

1.166

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.242

Total Worksi

995

Total Citationsi

23,256

2yr Mean Citednessi

4.22

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Biology; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous); Health (social science); Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionJapan

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1950

FrequencyBimonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications995

OA Since2018

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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?

International Advancement Center for Medicine and Health Research Co., Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1881-7823

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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

1.7k

2019

6.3k

2020

1.8k

2021

1.4k

2022

725

2023

583

2024

243

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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)Q1

Health (social science)Q1

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Biology

Scopus Categories

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)Medicine (miscellaneous)Health (social science)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and PrognosisLiver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentCholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer StudiesSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchPancreatic and Hepatic Oncology ResearchCOVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesGallbladder and Bile Duct DisordersHIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesMicroRNA in disease regulation

Frequently asked questions about BioScience Trends

Is BioScience Trends a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for BioScience Trends: 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 BioScience Trends?

BioScience Trends 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 4.22.

Is BioScience Trends indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

BioScience Trends is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of BioScience Trends?