Journal profile · Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS
ISSN 0393-6155 · eISSN 1724-6008 · SAGE Publications Inc. · ENGLAND · Quarterly · Founded 1986
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.28; fully open access; APC about USD 2,800; 26 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS is published by SAGE Publications Inc. and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, together about 20.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Oncology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal highlightsImpact Factor: 2.0Indexed in: Clarivate Analytics (SCIE, Current Contents – Life Sciences, BIOSIS Previews), PubMed: MEDLINE, and...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Editor-in-chief Stefano IndraccoloPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 1%); most named Italy 40, United States 13, Türkiye 5, Australia 4, Hong Kong, China 2 (71 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies ResearchMedicine8.4%
- HER2/EGFR in Cancer ResearchMedicine6.4%
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins ResearchBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.1%
- Protease and Inhibitor MechanismsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.6%
- Colorectal Cancer Treatments and StudiesMedicine4.5%
- Genetic factors in colorectal cancerMedicine4.5%
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and ResearchMedicine4.5%
- Lung Cancer Treatments and MutationsMedicine4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Oncology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Oncology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Oncology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- 2.28LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.56LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.59LetPub ·
- h-index
- 38LetPub ·
- h-index
- 58OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,005OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.88OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.82%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 25LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,347 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 24 | 24 | 7 |
| 2025 | 26 | 26 | 35 |
| 2024 | 33 | 33 | 114 |
| 2023 | 31 | 31 | 215 |
| 2022 | 45 | 45 | 431 |
| 2021 | 30 | 30 | 391 |
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
- Single 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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,800 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
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
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 3,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted9
- clinical trial protocolsA clinical trial is defined as any research project that prospectively assigns human participants to intervention or comparison groups to study the cause-and-ef…Length not stated
- editorialOriginal research articles Previously unpublished manuscripts, describing clinical, pre-clinical, epidemiological investigations, clinical trials, clinical obse…Length not stated
- editorialsThe purpose of the editorials is to provide the reader with a balanced overview of relevant and up to date subjectsLength not stated
- hypothesisOriginal research articles Previously unpublished manuscripts, describing clinical, pre-clinical, epidemiological investigations, clinical trials, clinical obse…Length not stated
- original research articleOriginal research articles Previously unpublished manuscripts, describing clinical, pre-clinical, epidemiological investigations, clinical trials, clinical obse…Length not stated
- original research articlesPreviously unpublished manuscripts, describing clinical, pre-clinical, epidemiological investigations, clinical trials, clinical observations, and other relevan…Length not stated
- protocolOriginal research articles Previously unpublished manuscripts, describing clinical, pre-clinical, epidemiological investigations, clinical trials, clinical obse…Length not stated
- reviewOriginal research articles Previously unpublished manuscripts, describing clinical, pre-clinical, epidemiological investigations, clinical trials, clinical obse…Length not stated
- reviewsReviews are solicited by the Editor in Chief on topics that are deemed to be relevant to the audience of the Journal.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Member of the Committee on Publication Ethics Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
The International Journal of Biological Markers is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of p…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be …
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
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1986
- ISSN
- 0393-6155
- Electronic ISSN
- 1724-6008
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS
What CAS zone is INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology / Oncology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.28; CiteScore 4.1, h-index 58.
What are the manuscript requirements of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 3,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver. 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 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS based?
Of the 71 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 1%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (40), United States (13) and Türkiye (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS open access, and what is the APC?
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,800.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .