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RSC Soft Matter is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1). Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2048-7681Verify ISSN ↗2048-769XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 171 / 270 | 36th | Q3 |
| Chemistry (all) | 263 / 402 | 34th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 352 / 448 | 21st | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–2024 (also 2014–2021), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
RSC Soft Matter is Q3 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 171 of 270), Q3 in Chemistry (all) (rank 263 of 402) and Q4 in Biochemistry (rank 352 of 448), by CiteScore 2025.
RSC Soft Matter 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 2.1, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
RSC Soft Matter is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its print ISSN is 2048-7681 and its online ISSN is 2048-769X.
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 Soft Matter has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #227 of 246 Scopus journals in Chemical Engineering (all).
RSC Soft Matter published 5 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 22. 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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