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Soft Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.3), WoS ESCI. Published by OAE Publishing Inc..
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ISSN 2769-5441Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: OAE Publishing Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 30 / 256 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.3.
Soft Science is Q1 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 30 of 256), by CiteScore 2025.
Soft Science is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 14.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.683, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
Soft Science is published by OAE Publishing Inc. Its ISSN is 2769-5441.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Soft Science has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 9.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 234 Scopus journals in Materials Science (miscellaneous).
Soft Science published 60 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (74%), South Korea (10.9%) and United States (2.8%). 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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