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Journal of College Science Teaching is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Informa UK Ltd.
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ISSN 1943-4898Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Informa UK Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 1209 / 1698 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 1977), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Journal of College Science Teaching is Q3 in Education (rank 1209 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of College Science Teaching is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3, 28th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.237, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 21.
Journal of College Science Teaching is published by Informa UK Ltd. Its ISSN is 1943-4898.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of College Science Teaching has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #980 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Journal of College Science Teaching published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 112. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (71.4%), Indonesia (7.8%) and India (2.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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