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Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8). Published by Royal Society of Western Australia Inc..
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ISSN 0035-922XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Western Australia Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multidisciplinary | 169 / 223 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–2025 (also 1981), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia is Q4 in Multidisciplinary (rank 169 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 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 0.8, quartile Q4, 24th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.132, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 30.
Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia is published by Royal Society of Western Australia Inc. Its ISSN is 0035-922X.
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 the Royal Society of Western Australia has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #128 of 208 Scopus journals in Multidisciplinary.
Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 14. 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 33 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Australia (82.8%), Spain (3%) and United Kingdom (3%). 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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