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Carbon is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0008-6223Verify ISSN ↗1873-3891Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,830 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (all) | 21 / 475 | 95th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 18 / 402 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.5.
Carbon is Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 21 of 475) and Q1 in Chemistry (all) (rank 18 of 402), by CiteScore 2025.
Carbon 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 21.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.185, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 360.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,830 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.
Carbon is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0008-6223 and its online ISSN is 1873-3891.
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.
Carbon has an h-index of 389 and a 2-year mean of 11.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 438 Scopus journals in Materials Science (all).
Carbon published 1,137 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,671. 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (55%), Japan (11%) and South Korea (7.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 11 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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