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RSC Applied Interfaces is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 2755-3701Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 128 / 256 | 50th | Q2 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 72 / 133 | 46th | Q3 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 79 / 141 | 44th | Q3 |
| Materials Chemistry | 189 / 327 | 42nd | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
RSC Applied Interfaces is Q2 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 128 of 256), Q3 in Ceramics and Composites (rank 72 of 133) and Q3 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 79 of 141), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
RSC Applied Interfaces 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.742, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
RSC Applied Interfaces is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its ISSN is 2755-3701.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
RSC Applied Interfaces has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 3.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 234 Scopus journals in Materials Science (miscellaneous).
RSC Applied Interfaces published 156 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (17.3%), India (14.4%) and United States (13.2%).
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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