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Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7). Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1000-3045Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 96 / 282 | 66th | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 87 / 248 | 65th | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 428 / 1030 | 58th | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 316 / 740 | 57th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences is Q2 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 96 of 282), Q2 in Public Administration (rank 87 of 248) and Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 428 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2, 66th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.540, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1000-3045.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #177 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences published 177 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.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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