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RSC Detection Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 2052-3068Verify ISSN ↗2052-3076Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 171 / 209 | 18th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry (medical) | 66 / 78 | 16th | Q4 |
| Chemistry (all) | 364 / 402 | 9th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 203 / 223 | 9th | Q4 |
| Pollution | 164 / 180 | 9th | Q4 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 148 / 157 | 6th | Q4 |
| Bioengineering | 159 / 168 | 5th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2013–2021), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
RSC Detection Science is Q4 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 171 of 209), Q4 in Biochemistry (medical) (rank 66 of 78) and Q4 in Chemistry (all) (rank 364 of 402), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
RSC Detection Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4, 18th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
RSC Detection Science is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its print ISSN is 2052-3068 and its online ISSN is 2052-3076.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
RSC Detection Science has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #189 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
RSC Detection Science published 21 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 25. 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.
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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