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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0096-3402Verify ISSN ↗1938-3282Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 182 / 745 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1946–1948 (also 1971, 1973–1975, 1979, 1996, 1998–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.1.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 182 of 745), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.598, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0096-3402 and its online ISSN is 1938-3282.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 1.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #188 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published 66 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 76. 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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