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Natures Sciences Societes is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by EDP Sciences.
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ISSN 1240-1307Verify ISSN ↗1765-2979Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: EDP Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 210 / 286 | 26th | Q3 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) | 179 / 201 | 11th | Q4 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 211 / 235 | 10th | Q4 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 229 / 249 | 8th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 209 / 223 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Natures Sciences Societes is Q3 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 210 of 286), Q4 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (all) (rank 179 of 201) and Q4 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 211 of 235), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Natures Sciences Societes 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 0.6, quartile Q3, 26th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.179, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 24.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Natures Sciences Societes is published by EDP Sciences. Its print ISSN is 1240-1307 and its online ISSN is 1765-2979.
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.
Natures Sciences Societes has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #209 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Natures Sciences Societes published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 71. 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 90 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from France (88.1%), Switzerland (2.6%) and Canada (1.7%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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