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ACS Central Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by American Chemical Society.
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ISSN 2374-7943Verify ISSN ↗2374-7951Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Chemical Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 17 / 270 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 31 / 402 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.9.
ACS Central Science is Q1 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 17 of 270) and Q1 in Chemistry (all) (rank 31 of 402), by CiteScore 2025.
ACS Central Science is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 14.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.684, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 166.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
ACS Central Science is published by American Chemical Society. Its print ISSN is 2374-7943 and its online ISSN is 2374-7951.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
ACS Central Science has an h-index of 193 and a 2-year mean of 8.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 246 Scopus journals in Chemical Engineering (all).
ACS Central Science published 275 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 316. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (46.4%), China (15.9%) and Japan (4.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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