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Color Research and Application is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 0361-2317Verify ISSN ↗1520-6378Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,180 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 171 / 402 | 57th | Q2 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 119 / 270 | 56th | Q2 |
| Human Factors and Ergonomics | 23 / 48 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
Color Research and Application is Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 171 of 402), Q2 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 119 of 270) and Q2 in Human Factors and Ergonomics (rank 23 of 48), by CiteScore 2025.
Color Research and Application 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.590, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 77.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,180 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.
Color Research and Application is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0361-2317 and its online ISSN is 1520-6378.
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.
Color Research and Application has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 0.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #264 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
Color Research and Application published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 167. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (27.4%), United States (11.1%) and United Kingdom (9%).
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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