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BMC Biology
Continuation of: 1478-5854, 1475-4924
BMC (2003-)
ISSN: 1741-7007
Biology - Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Plant Science - Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) - Developmental Biology - Physiology - Biotechnology - Structural Biology - Cell Biology - biology
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Corresponding authors affiliated with VU/VUMC will receive a 15% discount on the Article Processing Charges that need to be paid to publish open access in this journal.
For the publisher, the corresponding author is the author who submits the article to the journal and corresponds with the publisher during the publication process. Only this author can receive the discount.
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This deal is valid until 2024-12-31.
Last updated: 2017-10-05
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Metrics

JCR Science Citation Index (2022)

Impact factor: 5.4
Q1 (Biology (15/92))

Scopus Journal Metrics (2022)

SJR: 2.324
SNIP: 1.461
CiteScore: 8.6
Rank within the category: Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all)
Quartile: Q1
CiteScore percentile: 93%
CiteScore rank: 15 out of 213
Rank within the category: Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Quartile: Q1
CiteScore percentile: 93%
CiteScore rank: 48 out of 687
Rank within the category: Agricultural and Biological Sciences - Plant Science
Quartile: Q1
CiteScore percentile: 92%
CiteScore rank: 38 out of 487
Rank within the category: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all)
Quartile: Q1
CiteScore percentile: 82%
CiteScore rank: 37 out of 212
Rank within the category: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - Developmental Biology
Quartile: Q1
CiteScore percentile: 82%
CiteScore rank: 14 out of 78
Rank within the category: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - Physiology
Quartile: Q1
CiteScore percentile: 82%
CiteScore rank: 33 out of 182
Rank within the category: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - Biotechnology
Quartile: Q1
CiteScore percentile: 80%
CiteScore rank: 58 out of 299
Rank within the category: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - Structural Biology
Quartile: Q1
CiteScore percentile: 76%
CiteScore rank: 11 out of 45
Rank within the category: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - Cell Biology
Quartile: Q2
CiteScore percentile: 69%
CiteScore rank: 84 out of 274

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