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Journal of the Royal Society Interface is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Royal Society Publishing.
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ISSN 1742-5662Verify ISSN ↗1742-5689Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biophysics | 35 / 155 | 77th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 149 / 448 | 66th | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 117 / 342 | 65th | Q2 |
| Biotechnology | 114 / 325 | 65th | Q2 |
| Biomaterials | 63 / 146 | 57th | Q2 |
| Bioengineering | 74 / 168 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface is Q1 in Biophysics (rank 35 of 155), Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 149 of 448) and Q2 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 117 of 342), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.919, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 186.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface is published by Royal Society Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1742-5662 and its online ISSN is 1742-5689.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface has an h-index of 214 and a 2-year mean of 4.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 154 Scopus journals in Biophysics.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface published 249 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 289. 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 United States (24.7%), United Kingdom (15.2%) and China (10.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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