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Journal of AOAC International is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1060-3271Verify ISSN ↗1944-7922Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$1,868 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 133 / 422 | 68th | Q2 |
| Food Science | 170 / 420 | 59th | Q2 |
| Pharmacology | 177 / 328 | 46th | Q3 |
| Analytical Chemistry | 88 / 160 | 45th | Q3 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 91 / 157 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.2.
Journal of AOAC International is Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 133 of 422), Q2 in Food Science (rank 170 of 420) and Q3 in Pharmacology (rank 177 of 328), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of AOAC International 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.363, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 110.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,868 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.
Journal of AOAC International is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1060-3271 and its online ISSN is 1944-7922.
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.
Journal of AOAC International has an h-index of 124 and a 2-year mean of 1.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #152 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Journal of AOAC International published 112 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 391. 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 87 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (24.1%), United States (18.4%) and Türkiye (10.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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