BioScience Journal Impact Factor & Scope

The journal-level citation metrics for BioScience—published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)—principally include its Clarivate Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and Scopus CiteScore. According to publisher data verified on 2026-11-07, BioScience holds a Journal Impact Factor of 9.7 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 12.3. The title must be disambiguated from the Brazilian publication Bioscience Journal, issued by the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 7 Nov 2026

What is the BioScience impact factor?

On its About page, checked on 2026-11-07, BioScience reports a Journal Impact Factor of 9.7 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 12.3 (both from Clarivate, 2025 figures), plus a Scopus CiteScore of 14.4.

The two-year Journal Impact Factor is the average number of citations received in a given year by items the journal published in the preceding two years. The 5-year figure uses a longer window. CiteScore is Scopus’s separate journal metric, so its value should not be compared directly with a Clarivate impact factor. Figures change every year; check the journal’s About page for the current values.

How does BioScience differ from the Brazilian Bioscience Journal?

BioScience (AIBS / Oxford University Press): peer-reviewed, monthly, published since 1964, online ISSN 1525-3244. The impact factor above belongs to this journal.
Bioscience Journal (Universidade Federal de Uberlandia): an open-access, multidisciplinary journal covering Agricultural Sciences, Biological Sciences and Health Sciences, published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, ISSN 1981-3163.

Attributing metrics, indexing or submissions from one title to the other is a bibliometric error.

How should journal metrics be used?

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and the Leiden Manifesto both advise against using journal-level metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor as a stand-in for the quality of an individual article or researcher. Reviewers are encouraged to judge the work itself. For comparison with other biology titles, see the entries for PLOS Biology, Current Biology and Communications Biology, or read about systems biology and how biology compares with biochemistry.

Frequently asked questions

What is the impact factor of BioScience?

9.7 (Journal Impact Factor) and 12.3 (5-year), per the journal’s About page checked on 2026-11-07.

Who publishes BioScience?

Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.

Is BioScience peer reviewed?

Yes, the journal describes itself as peer-reviewed.

Is the Bioscience Journal from Brazil the same journal?

No. It is a different, open-access journal published by Universidade Federal de Uberlandia.

Sources

BioScience, About (Oxford Academic): https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/pages/About, checked 2026-11-07
Bioscience Journal, About (Universidade Federal de Uberlandia): https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/biosciencejournal/about, checked 2026-11-07

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