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Chirality is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Liss Inc..
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ISSN 0899-0042Verify ISSN ↗1520-636XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Liss Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,030 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 63 / 215 | 70th | Q2 |
| Pharmacology | 106 / 328 | 67th | Q2 |
| Spectroscopy | 27 / 81 | 67th | Q2 |
| Analytical Chemistry | 58 / 160 | 64th | Q2 |
| Drug Discovery | 61 / 161 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Catalysis | 36 / 74 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.9.
Chirality is Q2 in Organic Chemistry (rank 63 of 215), Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 106 of 328) and Q2 in Spectroscopy (rank 27 of 81), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Chirality 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.620, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 87.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,030 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.
Chirality is published by Wiley-Liss Inc. Its print ISSN is 0899-0042 and its online ISSN is 1520-636X.
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.
Chirality has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 1.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #129 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Chirality published 83 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 159. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (30.8%), India (12.1%) and United States (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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