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Structure and Bonding is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 0081-5993Verify ISSN ↗1616-8550Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spectroscopy | 78 / 81 | 4th | Q4 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 190 / 194 | 2nd | Q4 |
| Inorganic Chemistry | 85 / 86 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025 (also 2005–2021, 2003, 1997, 1981–1982), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Structure and Bonding is Q4 in Spectroscopy (rank 78 of 81), Q4 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (rank 190 of 194) and Q4 in Inorganic Chemistry (rank 85 of 86), by CiteScore 2025.
Structure and Bonding is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4, 4th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Structure and Bonding is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0081-5993 and its online ISSN is 1616-8550.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Structure and Bonding has an h-index of 120 and a 2-year mean of 1.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 79 Scopus journals in Spectroscopy.
Structure and Bonding published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 50. 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.
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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