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SynOpen is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
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ISSN 2509-9396Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 115 / 256 | 55th | Q2 |
| Organic Chemistry | 115 / 215 | 46th | Q3 |
| Biomaterials | 89 / 146 | 39th | Q3 |
| Catalysis | 51 / 74 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
SynOpen is Q2 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 115 of 256), Q3 in Organic Chemistry (rank 115 of 215) and Q3 in Biomaterials (rank 89 of 146), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
SynOpen 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.373, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$340 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.
SynOpen is published by Georg Thieme Verlag. Its ISSN is 2509-9396.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
SynOpen has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 1.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 234 Scopus journals in Materials Science (miscellaneous).
SynOpen published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 74. 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 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (24.2%), China (16.5%) and Ukraine (11.9%).
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 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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