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Acta Histochemica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
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ISSN 0065-1281Verify ISSN ↗1618-0372Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,940 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Histology | 19 / 62 | 70th | Q2 |
| Cell Biology | 151 / 289 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1954–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.7.
Acta Histochemica is Q2 in Histology (rank 19 of 62) and Q3 in Cell Biology (rank 151 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Histochemica 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.672, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 65.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,940 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.
Acta Histochemica is published by Elsevier GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0065-1281 and its online ISSN is 1618-0372.
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.
Acta Histochemica has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 1.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 61 Scopus journals in Histology.
Acta Histochemica published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 129. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (40.9%), Japan (12.4%) and India (11.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (2.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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