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International Journal of Cosmetic Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0142-5463Verify ISSN ↗1468-2494Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dermatology | 29 / 152 | 81st | Q1 |
| Pharmaceutical Science | 72 / 191 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Drug Discovery | 78 / 161 | 51st | Q2 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 67 / 137 | 51st | Q2 |
| Colloid and Surface Chemistry | 15 / 24 | 39th | Q3 |
| Aging | 26 / 42 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
International Journal of Cosmetic Science is Q1 in Dermatology (rank 29 of 152), Q2 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 72 of 191) and Q2 in Drug Discovery (rank 78 of 161), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Cosmetic Science 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.672, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 88.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,570 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.
International Journal of Cosmetic Science is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0142-5463 and its online ISSN is 1468-2494.
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.
International Journal of Cosmetic Science has an h-index of 98 and a 2-year mean of 2.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 144 Scopus journals in Dermatology.
International Journal of Cosmetic Science published 130 papers in 2025. 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 81 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from France (23.8%), United States (13.6%) and China (8.4%).
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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