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Nature Catalysis is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 62.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Nature Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2520-1158Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Cost to publish: About US$12,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 1 / 448 | 99th | Q1 |
| Process Chemistry and Technology | 1 / 84 | 99th | Q1 |
| Catalysis | 1 / 74 | 99th | Q1 |
| Bioengineering | 2 / 168 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 62.2.
Nature Catalysis is Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 1 of 448), Q1 in Process Chemistry and Technology (rank 1 of 84) and Q1 in Catalysis (rank 1 of 74), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nature Catalysis 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 62.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 16.266, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 188.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$12,690 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.
Nature Catalysis is published by Nature Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2520-1158.
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.
Nature Catalysis has an h-index of 232 and a 2-year mean of 26.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 62.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Nature Catalysis published 190 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 202. 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (30.7%), United States (20.5%) and Germany (10.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (3.7 per 1,000 papers). 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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