Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
ISSN 0959-437x · Elsevier BV · United Kingdom · active 1985–2026
Metrics
“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.
Indexing & access
Access status: unknown. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.
Scope
Frequently asked
Is Current Opinion in Genetics & Development a predatory journal?
Our screening does not flag Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.
Is Current Opinion in Genetics & Development indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.
What is Current Opinion in Genetics & Development's impact?
Papers in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development are cited about 4.7 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 243. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.
Is Current Opinion in Genetics & Development open access?
We hold no reliable open-access classification for Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.