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HAYATI Journal of Biosciences
ISSN 1978-3019 · eISSN 2086-4094 · Institut Pertanian Bogor · Indonesia
HAYATI Journal of Biosciences: fully open access; APC about USD 250; median 119 days to acceptance (83 articles, last 24 months); 163 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus; the journal's website says submissions are paused or closed.
The journal's website says submissions are paused or closed: This journal is not accepting submissions at this time. Source ↗Publisher website ·
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
HAYATI Journal of Biosciences is published by Institut Pertanian Bogor. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Medicinal Plant Research, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity and Genetic diversity and population structure, together about 20.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
HAYATI Journal of Biosciences (HAYATI J Biosci; p-ISSN: 1978-3019; e-ISSN: 2086-4094) is an international peer-reviewed and open access journal that publishes significant and important research from all area of biosciences fields such as biodiversity, biosystematics, ecology, physiology, behavior, genetics and biotechnology. All life forms, ranging from microbes, fungi, plants, animals, and human, including virus, are covered by HAYATI J Biosci. HAYATI J Biosci published by Department of Biology, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia and the Indonesian Society for Biology. We accept submission from all over the world. Our Editorial Board members are prominent and active international researchers in biosciences fields who ensure efficient, fair, and constructive peer-review process. All accepted articles will be published on payment of an article-processing charge, and will be freely available to all readers with worldwide visibility and coverage. HAYATI J Biosci has been also indexed/registered in SCOPUS, Asean Citation Index, DOAJ, SINTA, Crossref, CABI, EBSCO, Publons, Scilit, Agricola, ProQuest and others.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all)
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Medicinal Plant ResearchAgricultural and Biological Sciences8%
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and ImmunityAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.5%
- Genetic diversity and population structureBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.2%
- Microbial Natural Products and BiosynthesisMedicine6%
- Enzyme Production and CharacterizationBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.9%
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiotaImmunology and Microbiology5.8%
- Aquaculture Nutrition and GrowthAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.7%
- Plant tissue culture and regenerationBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.5%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Agricultural and Biological Sciences | Q3 | 125/235 | 47th |
| General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | Q3 | 154/223 | 31st |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Asean Citation Index, SINTA, National Library of Medicine Catalog, Crossref, ROAD, CABI, EBSCO, Publons, Scilit, Agricola, ProQuestPublisher website
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.21LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.42LetPub ·
- h-index
- 39OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 249OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.63OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,245 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 90 | 90 | 639 |
| 2025 | 163 | 163 | 782 |
| 2024 | 121 | 121 | 1,069 |
| 2023 | 125 | 125 | 1,165 |
| 2022 | 112 | 112 | 1,046 |
| 2021 | 49 | 49 | 1,037 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
119 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 70 days – 180 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 45 days (81 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 164 days
- Sample
- 83 articles with submission and acceptance dates (272 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 24 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 24 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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 | USD 250 / IDR 3,000,000 | Yes | CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 250 / IDR 3,000,000 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 250 / IDR 3,000,000 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 300 | — | — |
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 prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Optional
Article types accepted1, with length limits
- short communicationesults, Discussion, and References. The short communication (maximum 1500 words) receives the same in-depth review as the Research Article.main text ≤ 1,500 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Authorship Authorship of the paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Guidelines for Filing a Competing Interest Statement
Definition: Conflict of interest (COI) exists when there is a divergence between an individual's private interests (competing interests) and his or her responsibilities to scientific and publishing activities such that a reasonable observer might wonder if the individual's behavior or judgment was motivated by considerations of his or her competing interests. COI in medical publishing affects ever…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data access and retention
Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication ethics and malpractice statement
A publication ethics and publication malpractice statement (composed using the Publishing ethics resource kit and in compliance with Elsevier recommendations) Ethical guidelines for journal publication (These guidelines are based on Elsevier policies) HAYATI Journal of Biosciences publishes articles and short communications in biological fields such as biodiversity, biotechnology, and environmenta…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
HAYATI J Biosci is an open access journal and the article's license is CC-BY-NC. This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon author's work, as long as they credit the original creation. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal/publisher non exclusive publishing rights with the work simultaneously licensed under a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ . And Aut…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
Open access journal; article license CC-BY-NC. Model summary
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
HAYATI J Biosci implements Double-blind Peer Review Process. Editor in Chief will assign the manuscript to a corresponding section editor for further handling. The section editor will request at least two scientists to review the manuscript. Based on the comments from the reviewers. Editor and Editor in Chief will make the decision on the manuscript.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Originality and plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from ëpassing offí anotherís paper as the authorís own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of anotherís paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research co…
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
- Institut Pertanian Bogor
- Country or region
- Indonesia
- Language
- Indonesian, English
- ISSN
- 1978-3019
- Electronic ISSN
- 2086-4094
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 33, Issue 5 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about HAYATI Journal of Biosciences
How long does peer review take at HAYATI Journal of Biosciences?
Based on the dates recorded on 83 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 119 days (interquartile range 70–180 days); authors report an average review time of about 24 weeks. 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 HAYATI Journal of Biosciences?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Suggested reviewers: Optional; Cover letter: Optional. 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.
Which databases index HAYATI Journal of Biosciences?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, HAYATI Journal of Biosciences is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is HAYATI Journal of Biosciences open access, and what is the APC?
HAYATI Journal of Biosciences is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 250.
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: .