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Topics in Catalysis is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1022-5528Verify ISSN ↗1572-9028Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemistry (all) | 105 / 402 | 74th | Q2 |
| Catalysis | 32 / 74 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.9.
Topics in Catalysis is Q2 in Chemistry (all) (rank 105 of 402) and Q2 in Catalysis (rank 32 of 74), by CiteScore 2025.
Topics in Catalysis 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 6.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.573, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 131.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,590 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.
Topics in Catalysis is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1022-5528 and its online ISSN is 1572-9028.
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.
Topics in Catalysis has an h-index of 139 and a 2-year mean of 3.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #113 of 382 Scopus journals in Chemistry (all).
Topics in Catalysis published 215 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 242. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (34.9%), Türkiye (14.1%) and China (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 34 retracted papers are recorded (7.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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