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New Journal of Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 1144-0546Verify ISSN ↗1369-9261Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 155 / 402 | 61st | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 146 / 327 | 55th | Q2 |
| Catalysis | 44 / 74 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.9.
New Journal of Chemistry is Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 155 of 402), Q2 in Materials Chemistry (rank 146 of 327) and Q3 in Catalysis (rank 44 of 74), by CiteScore 2025.
New Journal of Chemistry 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.435, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 153.
New Journal of Chemistry is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its print ISSN is 1144-0546 and its online ISSN is 1369-9261.
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.
New Journal of Chemistry has an h-index of 160 and a 2-year mean of 2.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
New Journal of Chemistry published 2,079 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 2,551. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (58.8%), India (16.8%) and Japan (2%). 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. 44 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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