Journal profile · Health Professions-Health Information Management

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

ISSN 1744-5485 · eISSN 1744-5493 · Inderscience Publishers

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications: subscription journal; 48 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking
CiteScore quartileQ4Health Information Management · rank 50/63 · 21st percentile
Review time—No reports yet
APC—No source gives fee information
Acceptance—No reports yet
Articles per year482025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications is published by Inderscience Publishers. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks and Gene expression and cancer classification, together about 29.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Databases, bio-grid, system biology Biomedical image processing, modelling and simulation Bio-ontology and data mining, DNA assembly, clustering, mapping Computational genomics/proteomics Silico technology: computational intelligence, high performance computing E-health, telemedicine Gene expression, microarrays, identification, annotation Genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, neural networks, data visualisation Hidden Markov models, machine learning, support vector machines Molecular evolution, phylogeny, modelling, simulation, sequence analysis Parallel algorithms/architectures, computational structural biology Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms, physiome, protein structure prediction Sequence assembly, search, alignment Signalling/computational biomedical data engineering Simulated annealing, statistical analysis, stochastic grammars More on this journal... ObjectivesThe objectives of IJBRA are to develop, promote and coordinate the development and practice of bioinformatics and computational biology. IJBRA aims to help professionals working in the field, academic educators and policy-makers to contribute, to disseminate knowledge, and to learn from each other's work. The international dimension is emphasised in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and to meet the needs of accelerating technological change and changes in the global economy. IJBRA is an outstanding outlet that can shape a significant body of research in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology and in which results can be shared across institutions, governments, researchers and students, and also industry.ReadershipIJBRA provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics, researchers, graduate students, and managers, working in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology, to disseminate information and to learn from each other's work.ContentsIJBRA publishes original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, and notes, commentaries, and news. Contribution may be by submission or invitation, and suggestions for special issues and publications are welcome.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Health Professions-Health Information Management

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. Genomics and Phylogenetic StudiesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.2%
  2. Bioinformatics and Genomic NetworksBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9.3%
  3. Gene expression and cancer classificationBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.9%
  4. Computational Drug Discovery MethodsComputer Science6.8%
  5. Protein Structure and DynamicsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.7%
  6. Machine Learning in BioinformaticsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.3%
  7. Artificial Intelligence in HealthcareHealth Professions6.1%
  8. Fractal and DNA sequence analysisBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.7%

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)

SubjectQuartileRankPercentile
Health Information ManagementQ450/6321st
Health InformaticsQ4124/15319th
Biomedical EngineeringQ4272/32315th
Clinical BiochemistryQ4109/12110th

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

ScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

INSPECEmbaseCASDBLPPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, Academic OneFile (Gale), ACM Digital Library, Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (Elsevier), cnpLINKer (CNPIEC), Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale), OneFile Business (Gale), General OneFile (Gale), Google Scholar, Info Trac (Gale), J-Gate, io-port (FIZ Karlsruhe), ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace

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
1.1LetPub ·
SJR 2026-06
0.13LetPub ·
SNIP 2026-06
0.15LetPub ·
h-index
24OpenAlex ·
i10-index
107OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
0.41OpenAlex ·
Share of gold OA articles
0%LetPub ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 881 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
202633094
2025481204
2024914232
2023542188
2022473173
2021543236

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

Peer review
Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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

Subscription journalLetPub

A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.

No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.

Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)

Submission fee
Open Access

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)

Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, Open access, Peer review
Publication ethics

Originality requirement. Model summary

Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Open access Open Access

No publication charges unless Open Access. Model summary

There are no fees for publishing with Inderscience, unless you require your article to be OA. OA articles accepted for publication are available online and freely accessible to all without any restriction except use for commercial purposes; a fee must be paid by the author(s) for an article to be made OA. Open Access papers may be published according to the Inderscience Open Access option.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Peer review

Double-blind peer review process. Model summary

All our articles go through a double-blind review process.

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
Inderscience Publishers
ISSN
1744-5485
Electronic ISSN
1744-5493
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications

Which databases index International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications?

According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications is indexed in Scopus. The journal's website also lists INSPEC, Embase, CAS and DBLP; that list has not been checked against each database.

Is International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications open access, and what is the APC?

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.

Sources and updates

The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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: .