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Pure and Applied Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0033-4545Verify ISSN ↗1365-3075Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 199 / 402 | 50th | Q2 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 135 / 270 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1960–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Pure and Applied Chemistry is Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 199 of 402) and Q2 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 135 of 270), by CiteScore 2025.
Pure and Applied 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.392, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 171.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Pure and Applied Chemistry is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0033-4545 and its online ISSN is 1365-3075.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pure and Applied Chemistry has an h-index of 245 and a 2-year mean of 1.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #188 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
Pure and Applied Chemistry published 199 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 199. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (18.5%), India (13.2%) and China (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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