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Lipids is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 0024-4201Verify ISSN ↗1558-9307Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,589 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 158 / 215 | 26th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 334 / 448 | 25th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 246 / 289 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1966–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.7.
Lipids is Q3 in Organic Chemistry (rank 158 of 215), Q3 in Biochemistry (rank 334 of 448) and Q4 in Cell Biology (rank 246 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Lipids 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 26th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.427, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 137.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,589 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.
Lipids is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0024-4201 and its online ISSN is 1558-9307.
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.
Lipids has an h-index of 187 and a 2-year mean of 1.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #158 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Lipids published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 132. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (30.5%), Brazil (8.9%) and India (8.4%).
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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