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ACS Synthetic Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Chemical Society.
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ISSN 2161-5063Verify 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 20 / 144 | 86th | Q1 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 94 / 342 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.6.
ACS Synthetic Biology is Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 20 of 144) and Q2 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 94 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
ACS Synthetic Biology 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 7.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.419, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 111.
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 Synthetic Biology is published by American Chemical Society. Its ISSN is 2161-5063.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
ACS Synthetic Biology has an h-index of 133 and a 2-year mean of 5.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 141 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous).
ACS Synthetic Biology published 465 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35.9%), United States (20.8%) and Japan (10.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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.
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