mAbs

Landes Bioscience · United States · Est. 1967

ISSN1942-0870

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

2.065

H-Indexi

126

SNIPi

1.545

Total Worksi

1,866

Total Citationsi

81,459

2yr Mean Citednessi

6.37

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medicine, Research & Experimental; Immunology; Immunology and Allergy.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1967

FrequencyBimonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,866

Publisher OrgLandes Bioscience

OA Since2008

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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

CLOCKSSLibrary of CongressLOCKSSPorticoPMC

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?

1942-0870

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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?

CLOCKSS, Library of Congress, LOCKSS, Portico, PMC

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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

110

4.5k

2019

2.9k

2020

105

3.6k

2021

2.8k

2022

2.8k

2023

1.5k

2024

132

839

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.

ImmunologyQ1

Immunology and AllergyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Medicine, Research & Experimental

Scopus Categories

ImmunologyImmunology and Allergy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies ResearchProtein purification and stabilityGlycosylation and Glycoproteins ResearchViral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in InsectsCAR-T cell therapy researchBiosimilars and Bioanalytical MethodsT-cell and B-cell ImmunologyHER2/EGFR in Cancer ResearchImmunotherapy and Immune ResponsesImmune Cell Function and Interaction

Frequently asked questions about mAbs

Is mAbs a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for mAbs: 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 mAbs?

mAbs 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 6.37.

Is mAbs indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

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

What is the aims and scope of mAbs?