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IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Ruhr-University of Bochum.
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ISSN 2519-173XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ruhr-University of Bochum
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 134 / 680 | 80th | Q1 |
| Computational Mathematics | 54 / 212 | 74th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 427 / 1022 | 58th | Q2 |
| Software | 221 / 503 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology is Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 134 of 680), Q2 in Computational Mathematics (rank 54 of 212) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 427 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.649, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology is published by Ruhr-University of Bochum. Its ISSN is 2519-173X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 2.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #153 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 72. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (31.6%), France (12.6%) and Germany (8.1%).
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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