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Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.3), DOAJ. Published by Institute for Color Science and Technology.
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ISSN 2008-2134Verify ISSN ↗2383-1790Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Institute for Color Science and Technology
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 52 / 141 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Process Chemistry and Technology | 38 / 84 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.3.
Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings is Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 52 of 141) and Q2 in Process Chemistry and Technology (rank 38 of 84), by CiteScore 2025.
Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings 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 5.3, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.312, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 25.
Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings is published by Institute for Color Science and Technology. Its print ISSN is 2008-2134 and its online ISSN is 2383-1790.
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.
Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 128 Scopus journals in Surfaces, Coatings and Films.
Progress in Color, Colorants and Coatings published 11 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 31. 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 41 research articles (2021–2022), authors are most often from Iran (59.8%), Iraq (17.1%) and Malaysia (4.9%). 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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