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Lecture Notes in Computer Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0302-9743Verify ISSN ↗1611-3349Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$5,392 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theoretical Computer Science | 63 / 135 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Computer Science (all) | 123 / 241 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science is Q2 in Theoretical Computer Science (rank 63 of 135) and Q3 in Computer Science (all) (rank 123 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 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 3.1, quartile Q2, 53rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.393, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 535.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,392 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.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0302-9743 and its online ISSN is 1611-3349.
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.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science has an h-index of 717 and a 2-year mean of 1.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 125 Scopus journals in Theoretical Computer Science.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science published 24,713 papers in 2025. 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.
Scopus status: Active. 103 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 15 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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