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Journal of Cheminformatics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1758-2946Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 26 / 296 | 91st | Q1 |
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 16 / 131 | 88th | Q1 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 28 / 194 | 85th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 147 / 1022 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.8.
Journal of Cheminformatics is Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 26 of 296), Q1 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (rank 16 of 131) and Q1 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 28 of 194), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Cheminformatics 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 9.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.355, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 101.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,390 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 Cheminformatics is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1758-2946.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Cheminformatics has an h-index of 123 and a 2-year mean of 8.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Journal of Cheminformatics published 197 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (17.5%), United States (13.2%) and Germany (9.4%).
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.
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