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Orbital is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Departamento de Quimica.
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Publisher: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Departamento de Quimica
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 190 / 256 | 25th | Q3 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 208 / 270 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Chemistry (all) | 310 / 402 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Orbital is Q3 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 190 of 256), Q4 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 208 of 270) and Q4 in Chemistry (all) (rank 310 of 402), by CiteScore 2025.
Orbital 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.185, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
Orbital is published by Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Departamento de Quimica. Its ISSN is 1984-6428.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Orbital has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #179 of 234 Scopus journals in Materials Science (miscellaneous).
Orbital published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 78. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (51.6%), India (17.6%) and Indonesia (8%). 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.
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