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Gold Bulletin is not currently indexed in Scopus. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q3. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0017-1557Verify ISSN ↗2190-7579Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (all) | 261 / 475 | 45th | Q3 |
| Inorganic Chemistry | 48 / 86 | 44th | Q3 |
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 (1971–2025).
Gold Bulletin 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 3.6, quartile Q3, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.312, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 72.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,390 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.
Gold Bulletin is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0017-1557 and its online ISSN is 2190-7579.
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.
Gold Bulletin has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q3.
Gold Bulletin published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 33. 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 77 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from China (22.4%), India (17.4%) and Iran (8.4%).
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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