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Inorganica Chimica Acta is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0020-1693Verify ISSN ↗1873-3255Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,830 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inorganic Chemistry | 27 / 86 | 69th | Q2 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 64 / 194 | 67th | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 115 / 327 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1967–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.
Inorganica Chimica Acta is Q2 in Inorganic Chemistry (rank 27 of 86), Q2 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 64 of 194) and Q2 in Materials Chemistry (rank 115 of 327), by CiteScore 2025.
Inorganica 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 6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.425, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 114.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,830 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.
Inorganica Chimica Acta is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0020-1693 and its online ISSN is 1873-3255.
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.
Inorganica Chimica Acta has an h-index of 136 and a 2-year mean of 3.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 85 Scopus journals in Inorganic Chemistry.
Inorganica Chimica Acta published 463 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 723. 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (28.3%), China (13.4%) and United States (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 24 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 6 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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