BiomedicalPublications

Gene

Elsevier BV·Netherlands·ISSN 0378-1119

Subscription or hybridBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Gene is published by Elsevier BV as a subscription journal (ISSN 0378-1119). The list article processing charge is $3,300. Its OpenAlex h-index is 302. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$3,300

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · How we source APCs

Time to publication

—

Not reported to DOAJ.

h-index

302

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

3.0

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Gene is listed at $3,300. The publisher also lists 3,090 EUR, 2,640 GBP, 409,300 JPY. No waiver policy is recorded in our sources, which does not mean none exists. Ask.

What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Gene, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 10% since 2021, from $3,000 to $3,300.

$0$1.7k$3.3k2021: $3,00020212022: $2,85020222023: $2,94020232024: $3,06020242025: $3,3002025

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelNot reported
LicenceNot reported
Author keeps copyrightNot reported
Plagiarism screeningNot reported
Editorial boardNot linked in DOAJ
LanguagesNot reported

Verification checks

3 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsNot listed. Many legitimate subscription journals are not in DOAJ, so this alone means little.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredNo declared model found in DOAJ.
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Gene publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

RNA and protein synthesis mechanismsBacterial Genetics and BiotechnologyBacteriophages and microbial interactionsGenomics and Phylogenetic StudiesRNA Research and SplicingRNA modifications and cancerCRISPR and Genetic EngineeringGenomics and Chromatin DynamicsDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluation

Publication record

Indexed articles28,327
Total citations1,058,765
i10-index18,917
Most recent indexed article2026
All ISSNs0378-1119, 1879-0038

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.