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ACS Chemical Health and Safety is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Chemical Society.
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ISSN 1871-5532Verify ISSN ↗1878-0504Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Cost to publish: About US$4,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 172 / 725 | 76th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 144 / 402 | 64th | Q2 |
| Chemical Health and Safety | 10 / 20 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
ACS Chemical Health and Safety is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 172 of 725), Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 144 of 402) and Q2 in Chemical Health and Safety (rank 10 of 20), by CiteScore 2025.
ACS Chemical Health and Safety is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.642, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,500 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
ACS Chemical Health and Safety is published by American Chemical Society. Its print ISSN is 1871-5532 and its online ISSN is 1878-0504.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
ACS Chemical Health and Safety has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 2.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #204 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
ACS Chemical Health and Safety published 98 papers in 2025. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (18.9%), China (16.5%) and Brazil (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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