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Computing and Software for Big Science is not currently indexed in Scopus. Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2510-2044Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear and High Energy Physics | 14 / 97 | 86th | Q1 |
| Computer Science (miscellaneous) | 49 / 179 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Software | 154 / 503 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (2017–2025).
Computing and Software for Big Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1, 86th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.055, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,790 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.
Computing and Software for Big Science is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2510-2044.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Computing and Software for Big Science has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 6.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1.
Computing and Software for Big Science published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 32. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Germany (28.4%), United States (18.4%) and Switzerland (10%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Inactive — coverage ended 2025. 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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