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Faraday Discussions is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 1359-6640Verify ISSN ↗1364-5498Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 65 / 194 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present (also 1969, 1962, 1950–1951, 1947), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.
Faraday Discussions is Q2 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 65 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Faraday Discussions 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 6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.938, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 130.
Faraday Discussions is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its print ISSN is 1359-6640 and its online ISSN is 1364-5498.
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.
Faraday Discussions has an h-index of 143 and a 2-year mean of 3.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #72 of 191 Scopus journals in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.
Faraday Discussions published 220 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 382. 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 80 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (26.7%), United States (18.1%) and Germany (17.7%).
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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