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Separation Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0149-6395Verify ISSN ↗1520-5754Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 151 / 402 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 103 / 270 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Process Chemistry and Technology | 44 / 84 | 48th | Q3 |
| Filtration and Separation | 14 / 21 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.9.
Separation Science and Technology is Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 151 of 402), Q2 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 103 of 270) and Q3 in Process Chemistry and Technology (rank 44 of 84), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Separation Science and Technology 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.416, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 98.
Separation Science and Technology is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0149-6395 and its online ISSN is 1520-5754.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Separation Science and Technology has an h-index of 116 and a 2-year mean of 2.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #172 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
Separation Science and Technology published 233 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 380. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (29.9%), India (15.7%) and Türkiye (9.9%).
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 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.
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