Fly

Landes Bioscience · United States · Est. 1988

ISSN1933-6934eISSN1933-6942

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.791

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.692

Total Worksi

893

Total Citationsi

22,880

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.56

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Biology (General). Topics: organogenesis, biology, neurobiology, evolutionary biology, drosophila, insect model systems

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1988

FrequencyFour Times A Year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications893

Publisher OrgLandes Bioscience

OA Since2021

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

LOCKSSPorticoPMCCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Landes Bioscience

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1933-6934 / 1933-6942

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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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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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

LOCKSS, Portico, PMC, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

125

2019

2020

134

2021

303

2022

2023

103

2024

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.

Insect ScienceQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Scopus Categories

Insect Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Neurobiology and Insect Physiology ResearchInvertebrate Immune Response MechanismsDevelopmental Biology and Gene RegulationCRISPR and Genetic EngineeringInsect and Arachnid Ecology and BehaviorGenomics and Chromatin DynamicsInsect symbiosis and bacterial influencesChromosomal and Genetic VariationsRNA Research and SplicingGenetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

Frequently asked questions about Fly

Is Fly a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Fly: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Fly?

Fly 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 2.56.

Is Fly indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Fly is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Fly?