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Helvetica Chimica Acta is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0018-019XVerify ISSN ↗1522-2675Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$4,030 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inorganic Chemistry | 58 / 86 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 131 / 194 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Organic Chemistry | 149 / 215 | 30th | Q3 |
| Drug Discovery | 113 / 161 | 30th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 320 / 448 | 28th | Q3 |
| Catalysis | 57 / 74 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1918–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.9.
Helvetica Chimica Acta is Q3 in Inorganic Chemistry (rank 58 of 86), Q3 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 131 of 194) and Q3 in Organic Chemistry (rank 149 of 215), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Helvetica Chimica Acta 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.608, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 91.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,030 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.
Helvetica Chimica Acta is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0018-019X and its online ISSN is 1522-2675.
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.
Helvetica Chimica Acta has an h-index of 171 and a 2-year mean of 1.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 85 Scopus journals in Inorganic Chemistry.
Helvetica Chimica Acta published 98 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 139. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Switzerland (40.9%), Germany (19.6%) and France (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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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