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Journal of King Saud University - Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Scientific Scholar LLC.
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ISSN 1018-3647Verify ISSN ↗2213-686XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Scientific Scholar LLC
Cost to publish: About US$1,600 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multidisciplinary | 19 / 223 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 1994), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.2.
Journal of King Saud University - Science is Q1 in Multidisciplinary (rank 19 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of King Saud University - 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 10.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.618, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 85.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,600 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 King Saud University - Science is published by Scientific Scholar LLC. Its print ISSN is 1018-3647 and its online ISSN is 2213-686X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of King Saud University - Science has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 4.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 208 Scopus journals in Multidisciplinary.
Journal of King Saud University - Science published 135 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 649. 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 Saudi Arabia (40.1%), Türkiye (9.3%) and China (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 6 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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