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Colloid Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 1061-933XVerify ISSN ↗1608-3067Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 45 / 63 | 29th | Q3 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 139 / 194 | 28th | Q3 |
| Colloid and Surface Chemistry | 18 / 24 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1991–1992, 1989), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Colloid Journal is Q3 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 45 of 63), Q3 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 139 of 194) and Q3 in Colloid and Surface Chemistry (rank 18 of 24), by CiteScore 2025.
Colloid Journal 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.257, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 41.
Colloid Journal is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1061-933X and its online ISSN is 1608-3067.
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.
Colloid Journal has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 59 Scopus journals in Surfaces and Interfaces.
Colloid Journal published 87 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 102. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (64.8%), India (13.4%) and Iran (4.1%). 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. 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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