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Chaos, Solitons and Fractals is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.5), 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 0960-0779Verify ISSN ↗1873-2887Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,970 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematical Physics | 2 / 90 | 98th | Q1 |
| Applied Mathematics | 25 / 680 | 96th | Q1 |
| Engineering (all) | 29 / 351 | 91st | Q1 |
| Statistical and Nonlinear Physics | 6 / 63 | 91st | Q1 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 27 / 248 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.5.
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals is Q1 in Mathematical Physics (rank 2 of 90), Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 25 of 680) and Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 29 of 351), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 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 9.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.123, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 185.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,970 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.
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0960-0779 and its online ISSN is 1873-2887.
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.
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals has an h-index of 200 and a 2-year mean of 6.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 88 Scopus journals in Mathematical Physics.
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals published 1,688 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 60 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (50.2%), India (9.2%) and Spain (5.6%). 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. 5 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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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