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Journal of Chromatography A is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.9), 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 0021-9673Verify ISSN ↗1873-3778Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,040 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 52 / 215 | 76th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 128 / 448 | 71st | Q2 |
| Analytical Chemistry | 49 / 160 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1958–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.9.
Journal of Chromatography A is Q1 in Organic Chemistry (rank 52 of 215), Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 128 of 448) and Q2 in Analytical Chemistry (rank 49 of 160), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Chromatography A 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 6.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.668, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 265.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,040 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 Chromatography A is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0021-9673 and its online ISSN is 1873-3778.
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 Chromatography A has an h-index of 320 and a 2-year mean of 4.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Journal of Chromatography A published 849 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,402. 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 (42.4%), United States (8.1%) and Iran (5.4%).
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 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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