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Lab on a Chip is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 1473-0189Verify ISSN ↗1473-0197Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 54 / 448 | 88th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 55 / 402 | 86th | Q1 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 55 / 342 | 84th | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 28 / 168 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.6.
Lab on a Chip is Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 54 of 448), Q1 in Chemistry (all) (rank 55 of 402) and Q1 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 55 of 342), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Lab on a Chip 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 10.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.158, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 265.
Lab on a Chip is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its print ISSN is 1473-0189 and its online ISSN is 1473-0197.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Lab on a Chip has an h-index of 283 and a 2-year mean of 6.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #54 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Lab on a Chip published 596 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 650. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (26.5%), China (22.1%) and United Kingdom (6.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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