Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics is published by Cambridge University Press and is in Zone 2 of Biology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Educational Robotics and Engineering and Protein Structure and Dynamics, together about 33% of its articles. Its main subfields are Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics ISSN: 0033-5835 (Print), 1469-8994 (Online) Frequency: 1 volume per year Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics covers the field of experimental and computational biophysics. Experimental biophysics span across different physics-based measurements such as optical microscopy, super-resolution imaging, electron microscopy, X-ray and neutron diffraction, spectroscopy, calorimetry, thermodynamics and their integrated uses. Computational biophysics includes theory, simulations, bioinformatics and system analysis. These biophysical methodologies are used to discover the structure, function and physiology of biological systems in varying complexities from cells, organelles, membranes, protein-nucleic acid complexes, molecular machines to molecules. The majority of reviews published are invited from authors who have made significant contributions to the field, who give critical, readable and sometimes controversial accounts of recent progress and problems in their specialty. The journal has long-standing, worldwide reputation, demonstrated by its high ranking in the ISI Science Citation Index, as a forum for general and specialized communication between biophysicists working in different areas. Thematic issues are occasionally published.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Biophysics

Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 16%); most named United States 10, Mainland China 3, Sweden 3, United Kingdom 2, Norway 1 (19 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

6.15LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

7.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.74LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.24LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

91LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

172OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

562OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

7.41OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

1.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

59.46%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

17LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average acceptance (community reports)

Mostly invited papersLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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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.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1968

ISSN

0033-5835

Electronic ISSN

1469-8994

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website