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RSC Chemical Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 2633-0679Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 31 / 144 | 78th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 172 / 448 | 61st | Q2 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 56 / 137 | 59th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 181 / 414 | 56th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
RSC Chemical Biology is Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 31 of 144), Q2 in Biochemistry (rank 172 of 448) and Q2 in Chemistry (miscellaneous) (rank 56 of 137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
RSC Chemical Biology 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.116, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,962 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.
RSC Chemical Biology is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its ISSN is 2633-0679.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
RSC Chemical Biology has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 2.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 141 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous).
RSC Chemical Biology published 217 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (30.6%), United Kingdom (13.7%) and Germany (12.3%).
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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