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APC $6,990
DOAJ ✓
Earliest year 1800
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Publisher Nature Portfolio
Country/Region United Kingdom
Subject Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Open access ✓ (gold)
DOAJ ✓
License CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND
Earliest year 1800
DOAJ article records 82,942
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Difficulty: average 28 weeks from submission to publication;94,090 articles per year
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Open access: ✓ · CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND
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Articles/yr 94,090
h-index 756
2-yr mean citedness 20.87
Last publication year 2026
DOAJ article records 82,942
Open access ✓
“2-yr mean citedness” is the OpenAlex field summary_stats.2yr_mean_citedness (CC0): mean citations per paper over a two-year window. It is a raw bibliometric field, not a journal rating, and is not used for default ranking.
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Materials Science2,393
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