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Nature Synthesis is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 24.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Nature Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2731-0582Verify 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 4 / 215 | 98th | Q1 |
| Inorganic Chemistry | 2 / 86 | 98th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 4 / 137 | 97th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 16 / 327 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 24.7.
Nature Synthesis is Q1 in Organic Chemistry (rank 4 of 215), Q1 in Inorganic Chemistry (rank 2 of 86) and Q1 in Chemistry (miscellaneous) (rank 4 of 137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nature Synthesis 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 24.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.180, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 60.
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 Synthesis is published by Nature Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2731-0582.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nature Synthesis has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 14.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 24.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Nature Synthesis published 256 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 258. 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 74 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (45.3%), United States (19.8%) and United Kingdom (5.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (3.4 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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