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RAS Techniques and Instruments is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 2752-8200Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 82 / 194 | 57th | Q2 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 131 / 300 | 56th | Q2 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 44 / 97 | 55th | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 272 / 570 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
RAS Techniques and Instruments is Q2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 82 of 194), Q2 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 131 of 300) and Q2 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 44 of 97), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
RAS Techniques and Instruments 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.856, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,732 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.
RAS Techniques and Instruments is published by Oxford University Press. Its ISSN is 2752-8200.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
RAS Techniques and Instruments has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #60 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
RAS Techniques and Instruments published 66 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 66. 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 United Kingdom (33.6%), United States (12.1%) and Italy (5.9%).
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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