Journal of Biosciences

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Biosciences is a quarterly journal published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.

It covers all areas of Biology and is the premier journal in the country within its scope.

It is indexed in Current Contents and other standard Biological and Medical databases.

The Journal of Biosciences began in 1934 as the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Section B).

This continued until 1978 when it was split into three parts : Proceedings-Animal Sciences, Proceedings-Plant Sciences and Proceedings-Experimental Biology.

Proceedings-Experimental Biology was renamed Journal of Biosciences in 1979; and in 1991, Proceedings-Animal Sciences and Proceedings-Plant Sciences merged with it.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.9
2024	2.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	11154

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	601

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.521

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	91

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Lysozymes in the animal kingdom

  Citation: 627

  Authors: Lien, Chris W.

• The ubiquitin-proteasome system

  Citation: 570

  Authors: Dipankar, Pankaj, Anujith, Dilip

• Heat stress response in plants: a complex game with chaperones and more than twenty heat stress transcription factors

  Citation: 480

  Authors: Sanjeev Kumar, Kapil, Kwan Yu, Markus, Arnab, Sachin, Shravan Kumar, Lutz, Markus, Klaus-Dieter, Joanna, Christian, Dirk, Pascal

• Applications of inulin and oligofructose in health and nutrition

  Citation: 428

  Authors: Narinder, Anil K.

• Heat shock genes — integrating cell survival and death

  Citation: 390

  Authors: Richa, Moushami, Subhash C

• Sugar signalling and gene expression in relation to carbohydrate metabolism under abiotic stresses in plants

  Citation: 358

  Authors: Anil K., Narinder

• Specific and unspecific responses of plants to cold and drought stress

  Citation: 354

  Authors: Erwin H, Sebastian, Claudia, Katja, Tribikram

• Edwardsiellosis in fish: a brief review

  Citation: 331

  Authors: B. R., P. K.

• Heat shock protein 90: The cancer chaperone

  Citation: 290

  Authors: Len

• The Fungal Genetics Stock Center: a repository for 50 years of fungal genetics research

  Citation: 281

  Authors: K., A., M.

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