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Science Robotics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 32.1), WoS SCIE. Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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ISSN 2470-9476Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 1 / 198 | 99th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 6 / 740 | 99th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 9 / 1022 | 99th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 / 570 | 98th | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 32.1.
Science Robotics is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 1 of 198), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 6 of 740) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 9 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Science Robotics 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 32.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.883, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 143.
Science Robotics is published by American Association for the Advancement of Science. Its ISSN is 2470-9476.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Science Robotics has an h-index of 167 and a 2-year mean of 18.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 32.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Science Robotics published 132 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 138. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (53.9%), China (9.5%) and Switzerland (6.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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