Journal profile · Genetics & Heredity
Caryologia
ISSN 0008-7114 · eISSN 2165-5391 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · ITALY · Tri-annual · Founded 1948
Caryologia: impact factor 0; fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 12 months (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 29 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus; flagged on an early-warning list or for an indexing change: check before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Caryologia is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd.. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Plant tissue culture and regeneration and Plant Reproductive Biology, together about 40.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science and Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Caryologia. International Journal of Cytology, Cytosystematics, and Cytogenetics Caryologia is devoted to the publication of original papers, and occasionally of reviews, about plant, animal, and human karyological, cytological, cytogenetic, embryological, and ultrastructural studies. Articles about the structure, the organization, and the biological events relating to DNA and chromatin organization in eukaryotic cells are considered. Caryologia has a strong tradition in plant and animal cytosystematics and in cytotoxicology. Bioinformatics articles may be considered, but only if they have an emphasis on the relationship between the nucleus and cytoplasm and/or the structural organization of the eukaryotic cell. Articles about other aspects of molecular genetics might be considered if related to the concepts of species boundary, delimitations, and phylogenetic position. RIGOROUS PEER REVIEW Each submission to Caryologia is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality, original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single blind and submission is online. OPEN ACCESS POLICY Caryologia provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, Firenze University Press at the University of Florence, complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access: By “open access” , we mean the free availability on the public internet, the permission for all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain is to guarantee the original authors with control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. We support a greater global exchange of knowledge by making the research published in our journal open to the public and reusable under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0). Furthermore, we encourage authors to post their pre-publication manuscript in institutional
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Genetics & Heredity
Editor-in-chief Alessio PapiniPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 4%); most named Italy 33, Brazil 3, Romania 3, Mainland China 2, Sweden 2 (49 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Chromosomal and Genetic VariationsAgricultural and Biological Sciences26.5%
- Plant tissue culture and regenerationBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7%
- Plant Reproductive BiologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.7%
- Genetic diversity and population structureBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.1%
- Plant Taxonomy and PhylogeneticsAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.7%
- Plant Diversity and EvolutionAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.3%
- Plant Genetic and Mutation StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences4%
- Plant Disease Resistance and GeneticsAgricultural and Biological Sciences4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Biology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Biology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Genetics & Heredity | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
Early warning / risk: Removed from SCIE for editorial reasons on 21 August 2023. CAS Early Warning Journal List: not listed in any of 6 editions.LetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SCIEWeb of ScienceCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: AgBiotechNet, Agroforestry Abstracts (Online), Animal Breeding Abstracts, Animal Science Database, ArticleFirst, Arts and Humanities Search, Biofuels Abstracts, Biological Abstracts (Online), BIOSIS Previews, Botanical Pesticides Abstracts, Crop Physiology Abstracts, Crop Science Database, Environmental Impact, Field Crop Abstracts, Forest Products Abstracts, Forest Science Database, Forestry Abstracts, Global Health, Grasslands and Forage Abstracts (Online), Horticultural Science Database, Irrigation and Drainage Abstracts (Online), Nutrition and Food Sciences Database, Ornamental Horticulture (Online), Parasitology Database, Plant Breeding Abstracts (Online), Plant Genetics and Breeding Database, Potato Abstracts (Online), Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 0LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.19LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- h-index
- 26LetPub ·
- h-index
- 53OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,133OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.64OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 60.67%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 58LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,238 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025 | 29 | 29 | 16 |
| 2024 | 28 | 28 | 23 |
| 2023 | 48 | 48 | 64 |
| 2022 | 46 | 46 | 95 |
| 2021 | 75 | 75 | 291 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 150 | No | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | EUR 150 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | EUR 150 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≥ 5
- Reference style
- APA
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Publication ethics PUBLICATION ETHICS
The responsibilities of Caryologia's editors, reviewers, and authors concerning publication ethics and publication malpractice are described in Caryologia’s Guidelines on Publication Ethics.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Authors grant the journal a license to publish. Model summary
Copyright on any open access article published by Caryologia is retained by the author(s). Authors grant Caryologia a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details, and publisher are identified. The Creative Commons…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access OPEN ACCESS POLICY
Authors retain copyright for open access articles. Model summary
Caryologia provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, Firenze University Press at the University of Florence, complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access: By “open access” , we mean the free availability on the public internet, the permission for all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review RIGOROUS PEER REVIEW
Each submission to Caryologia is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes high-quality, original research contributions to scientific knowledge. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single blind and submission is online.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- ITALY
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Tri-annual
- Founded
- 1948
- ISSN
- 0008-7114
- Electronic ISSN
- 2165-5391
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 78, Issue 4 (2025)
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Caryologia
What is the impact factor of Caryologia?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0; CiteScore 1, h-index 53.
How long does peer review take at Caryologia?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 months; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Caryologia?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≥ 5; Reference style: APA; Suggested reviewers: Required; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Caryologia based?
Of the 49 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 4%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (33), Brazil (3) and Romania (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Caryologia?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Caryologia is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists SCIE, Web of Science, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Caryologia open access, and what is the APC?
Caryologia is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .