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Mass Spectrometry is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), DOAJ. Published by Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan.
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ISSN 2186-5116Verify ISSN ↗2187-137XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 119 / 206 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics | 176 / 243 | 27th | Q3 |
| Spectroscopy | 67 / 81 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Mass Spectrometry is Q3 in Instrumentation (rank 119 of 206), Q3 in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (rank 176 of 243) and Q4 in Spectroscopy (rank 67 of 81), by CiteScore 2025.
Mass Spectrometry 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 1.8, quartile Q3, 42nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.301, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
Mass Spectrometry is published by Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan. Its print ISSN is 2186-5116 and its online ISSN is 2187-137X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Mass Spectrometry has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #98 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Mass Spectrometry published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 61. 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 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Japan (83.6%), United States (5%) and Russia (2.1%). 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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