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Soft Matter is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 1744-683XVerify ISSN ↗1744-6848Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 151 / 446 | 66th | Q2 |
| Chemistry (all) | 141 / 402 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.2.
Soft Matter is Q2 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 151 of 446) and Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 141 of 402), by CiteScore 2025.
Soft Matter 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.667, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 217.
Soft Matter is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its print ISSN is 1744-683X and its online ISSN is 1744-6848.
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.
Soft Matter has an h-index of 232 and a 2-year mean of 2.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #155 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Soft Matter published 989 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,416. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (24.5%), China (13.8%) and India (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 16 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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.
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