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Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 0951-4198Verify ISSN ↗1097-0231Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,840 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spectroscopy | 52 / 81 | 36th | Q3 |
| Organic Chemistry | 139 / 215 | 35th | Q3 |
| Analytical Chemistry | 106 / 160 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.2.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry is Q3 in Spectroscopy (rank 52 of 81), Q3 in Organic Chemistry (rank 139 of 215) and Q3 in Analytical Chemistry (rank 106 of 160), by CiteScore 2025.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 36th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.362, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 155.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,840 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.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0951-4198 and its online ISSN is 1097-0231.
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.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry has an h-index of 176 and a 2-year mean of 1.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 79 Scopus journals in Spectroscopy.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry published 248 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 373. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (33.9%), India (14.7%) and United States (13.1%).
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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