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Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 44.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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ISSN 0036-8075Verify ISSN ↗1095-9203Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multidisciplinary | 2 / 223 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1883–present (also 1880–1881), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 44.6.
Science is Q1 in Multidisciplinary (rank 2 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Science is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 44.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 10.948, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 1433.
Science is published by American Association for the Advancement of Science. Its print ISSN is 0036-8075 and its online ISSN is 1095-9203.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Science has an h-index of 1,767 and a 2-year mean of 21.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 44.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 208 Scopus journals in Multidisciplinary.
Science published 2,064 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 5,018. 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 70 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (39%), China (12.3%) and Hong Kong SAR China (5.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 216 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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