Current Protein and Peptide Science

ISSN 1389-2037 · Bentham Science Publishers · United Arab Emirates · active 2000–2026

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Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q2
Cites per paper (2y)
1.7
SJR
0.529
h-index
114

“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 (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 1 November 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Current Protein and Peptide Science is Q2 in 1 of its 4 subject categories, Q3 in 2 and Q4 in 1. Its best category quartile is Q2.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Current Protein and Peptide Science in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Medicine (miscellaneous)Q2#1,251 of 2,517
BiochemistryQ3#273 of 449
Molecular BiologyQ3#297 of 425
Cell BiologyQ4#233 of 297
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
2.44
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
104

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

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Scope

proteinstructuredynamicsmolecularbiologyantimicrobialpeptidesactivitiesmicrobiologycomputationaldrugdiscovery

Frequently asked

Is Current Protein and Peptide Science a predatory journal?

Our screening flags Current Protein and Peptide Science as a possible predatory venue because its publisher appears on Beall's archive, which has been frozen since 2017. Treat this as a prompt to check carefully, not a verdict: verify against DOAJ and Think. Check. Submit before submitting.

Is Current Protein and Peptide Science indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Current Protein and Peptide Science 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 the impact factor of Current Protein and Peptide Science?

Papers in Current Protein and Peptide Science are cited about 1.7 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 114. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Current Protein and Peptide Science (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Current Protein and Peptide Science is Q2 in 1 of its 4 subject categories, Q3 in 2 and Q4 in 1. By category: Medicine (miscellaneous): Q2, #1,251 of 2,517; Biochemistry: Q3, #273 of 449; Molecular Biology: Q3, #297 of 425; Cell Biology: Q4, #233 of 297. Its best category quartile is Q2. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Current Protein and Peptide Science is cited about 1.7 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 114.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Current Protein and Peptide Science?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Current Protein and Peptide Science. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous), derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Current Protein and Peptide Science open access?

Our index records its access status as "subscription". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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