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Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1359-0294Verify ISSN ↗1879-0399Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,210 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 16 / 194 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Polymers and Plastics | 14 / 168 | 91st | Q1 |
| Surfaces and Interfaces | 6 / 63 | 91st | Q1 |
| Colloid and Surface Chemistry | 4 / 24 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.
Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science is Q1 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 16 of 194), Q1 in Polymers and Plastics (rank 14 of 168) and Q1 in Surfaces and Interfaces (rank 6 of 63), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science 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 14, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.370, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 186.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,210 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.
Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1359-0294 and its online ISSN is 1879-0399.
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.
Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science has an h-index of 201 and a 2-year mean of 8.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 191 Scopus journals in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.
Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 96. 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 88 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (11.2%), France (10.4%) and Italy (6.8%).
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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