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Quarterly Review of Biology

pISSN: 0033-5770eISSN: 1539-7718University of Chicago PressUnited States
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2026 Journal Metrics Score

0.2

Updated August 2026 · 2-year citation average from OpenAlex data

The Journal Metrics Score is the two-year mean citedness of a journal, computed from OpenAlex (CC0) data: citations received in the most recent complete year to works published in the two prior years, divided by the number of those works. Quartiles rank journals within each OpenAlex subfield by score. Data source: OpenAlex (CC0).

Subject Category Quartiles

Quartiles computed within each OpenAlex subfield
CategoryQuartile
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsQ4
Molecular BiologyQ4
History and Philosophy of ScienceQ3
PaleontologyQ4

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Subfield Quartile
B2
CAS Block

Quarterly Review of Biology current release and quartile

Quarterly Review of Biology's 2026 Journal Metrics Score is 0.2, updated August 2026 from OpenAlex citation data. The journal is ranked Q3 in this Journal Metrics record.

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Ranking position in Biology & Basic Science

Ranked #3,550 in Biology & Basic Science by Journal Metrics Score and #753 among Q3 Biology & Basic Science journals. This context helps compare Quarterly Review of Biology against journals publishing in the same field.

#3,550
of 3,739 field journals

Quarterly Review of Biology publication trend

Published 768 papers across the last 5 recorded years with a current Journal Metrics Score of 0.2.

2026 vs 2025: -77
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Journal Details

OpenAlex Works
35,979
H-Index
204
Fully Open Access
No
Recent OA Works
188
Subject Areas
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsMolecular BiologyHistory and Philosophy of SciencePaleontology

Source: the current OpenAlex source record. OpenAlex works can include multiple work types. Fully Open Access is a source-level flag. Recent OA Works is summed from OpenAlex's counts_by_year series (up to the latest ten years); it is not a lifetime OA percentage. Any APC shown here is an indicative OpenAlex value—verify current charges on the journal's official website.

Article Volume

2022
171
2023
189
2024
161
2025
162
2026
85
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