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Natural Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag.
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Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multidisciplinary | 40 / 223 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 72 / 248 | 71st | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 81 / 223 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Chemistry (all) | 158 / 402 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Natural Sciences is Q1 in Multidisciplinary (rank 40 of 223), Q2 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 72 of 248) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 81 of 223), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Natural Sciences is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.771, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,430 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.
Natural Sciences is published by Wiley-VCH Verlag. Its ISSN is 2698-6248.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Natural Sciences has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #75 of 208 Scopus journals in Multidisciplinary.
Natural Sciences published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 49. 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 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (24.7%), Germany (14%) and Israel (7.1%).
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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