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Frontiers Collection is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1). Published by Springer International Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1612-3018Verify ISSN ↗2197-6619Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 264 / 891 | 70th | Q2 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 99 / 254 | 61st | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 270 / 692 | 61st | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 451 / 744 | 39th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 950 / 1530 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Frontiers Collection is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 264 of 891), Q2 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 99 of 254) and Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 270 of 692), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Frontiers Collection 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 1, quartile Q2, 70th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Frontiers Collection is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1612-3018 and its online ISSN is 2197-6619.
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.
Frontiers Collection has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 0.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #481 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Frontiers Collection published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 132. 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.
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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