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Tetrahedron Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0040-4039Verify ISSN ↗1873-3581Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,610 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organic Chemistry | 151 / 215 | 30th | Q3 |
| Drug Discovery | 116 / 161 | 28th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 325 / 448 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1959–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.8.
Tetrahedron Letters is Q3 in Organic Chemistry (rank 151 of 215), Q3 in Drug Discovery (rank 116 of 161) and Q3 in Biochemistry (rank 325 of 448), by CiteScore 2025.
Tetrahedron Letters 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.285, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 190.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,610 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.
Tetrahedron Letters is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0040-4039 and its online ISSN is 1873-3581.
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.
Tetrahedron Letters has an h-index of 237 and a 2-year mean of 1.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 210 Scopus journals in Organic Chemistry.
Tetrahedron Letters published 413 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,228. 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (44.9%), United States (16.9%) and India (12.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 11 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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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