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Space Science Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 0038-6308Verify ISSN ↗1572-9672Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$5,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space and Planetary Science | 9 / 105 | 91st | Q1 |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | 9 / 97 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1962–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.5.
Space Science Reviews is Q1 in Space and Planetary Science (rank 9 of 105) and Q1 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (rank 9 of 97), by CiteScore 2025.
Space Science Reviews 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 13.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.501, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 201.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,290 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.
Space Science Reviews is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 0038-6308 and its online ISSN is 1572-9672.
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.
Space Science Reviews has an h-index of 228 and a 2-year mean of 8.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 99 Scopus journals in Space and Planetary Science.
Space Science Reviews published 129 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 160. 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 (31%), France (8.4%) and China (7.4%).
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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