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Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 128 / 253 | 49th | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 186 / 307 | 39th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 95 / 144 | 34th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences is Q3 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 128 of 253), Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 186 of 307) and Q3 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 95 of 144), by CiteScore 2025.
Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences 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 2, quartile Q3, 49th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.105, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 31.
Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2523-8027 and its online ISSN is 2523-8035.
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.
Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 1.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 243 Scopus journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous).
Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences published 140 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 237. 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. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags 6 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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