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Scientific Data is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Nature Research.
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ISSN 2052-4463Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Research
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics and Probability | 9 / 303 | 97th | Q1 |
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 8 / 178 | 95th | Q1 |
| Education | 82 / 1698 | 95th | Q1 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 29 / 296 | 90th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 155 / 1022 | 84th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 82 / 519 | 84th | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.6.
Scientific Data is Q1 in Statistics and Probability (rank 9 of 303), Q1 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 8 of 178) and Q1 in Education (rank 82 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Scientific Data 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 9.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.907, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 165.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,490 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.
Scientific Data is published by Nature Research. Its ISSN is 2052-4463.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Scientific Data has an h-index of 214 and a 2-year mean of 5.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 294 Scopus journals in Statistics and Probability.
Scientific Data published 2,200 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 15 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (80%), France (6.7%) and United States (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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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