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Colloids and Interface Science Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2215-0382Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 18 / 194 | 90th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 34 / 327 | 89th | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 17 / 141 | 88th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 39 / 325 | 88th | Q1 |
| Colloid and Surface Chemistry | 5 / 24 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.5.
Colloids and Interface Science Communications is Q1 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 18 of 194), Q1 in Materials Chemistry (rank 34 of 327) and Q1 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 17 of 141), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Colloids and Interface Science Communications 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 12.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.944, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,830 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.
Colloids and Interface Science Communications is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2215-0382.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Colloids and Interface Science Communications has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 6.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 191 Scopus journals in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.
Colloids and Interface Science Communications published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 225. 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 93 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (46.1%), Iran (6.8%) and Japan (4.8%).
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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