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Journal of Synchrotron Radiation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by International Union of Crystallography.
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ISSN 0909-0495Verify ISSN ↗1600-5775Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Union of Crystallography
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiation | 13 / 75 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Instrumentation | 43 / 206 | 79th | Q1 |
| Nuclear and High Energy Physics | 23 / 97 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation is Q1 in Radiation (rank 13 of 75), Q1 in Instrumentation (rank 43 of 206) and Q1 in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (rank 23 of 97), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.937, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 124.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,180 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 Synchrotron Radiation is published by International Union of Crystallography. Its print ISSN is 0909-0495 and its online ISSN is 1600-5775.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation has an h-index of 133 and a 2-year mean of 2.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 62 Scopus journals in Radiation.
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation published 175 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 267. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (19.8%), Germany (14.4%) and Japan (12.7%).
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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