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Notes and Records is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS AHCI/SCIE. Published by Royal Society Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0035-9149Verify ISSN ↗1743-0178Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 62 / 254 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–2025 (also 1970–1973), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Notes and Records is Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 62 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
Notes and Records is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.166, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
Notes and Records is published by Royal Society Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0035-9149 and its online ISSN is 1743-0178.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Notes and Records has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.45 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #87 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
Notes and Records published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 58. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (26.7%), United States (14.2%) and Italy (10%).
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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