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Manuscript Auditing →01Impact factor
Impact factor of Royal Society Open Science (2026)
The impact factor shown here is the 2-year mean citedness: citations received in a year by the papers Royal Society Open Science published in the two previous years, divided by the number of those papers. That is the same formula as the Journal Impact Factor, applied to the open citation data of OpenAlex. The journal is listed in JCR 2024, so it also has an official Journal Impact Factor published by Clarivate, which can differ because it counts citations from Web of Science journals only.
Rank in its subject categories
- Q1Multidisciplinary Sciencesrank 34 of 155 journals
Quartiles here rank journals of the same Web of Science category by 2-year citedness; they are not the official JCR quartiles.
Citations and papers per year
Open access (listed in DOAJ); article processing charge listed at about US$1,471.
02Indexing
Indexing of Royal Society Open Science
- ISSN
- 2054-5703
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Country
- England
- Language
- English
- Scopus source type
- Journal
- Web of Science categories
- Multidisciplinary Sciences
From the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab, updated 1 March 2026. Indexing can change: confirm on the Web of Science Master Journal List or the Scopus source list before submitting. Official Journal Impact Factors and JCR quartiles are published by Clarivate; the impact factor and quartile on this page are calculated from OpenAlex open data (see how the impact factor works).
03What it publishes
What Royal Society Open Science publishes: real papers
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04Published papers
Papers published in Royal Society Open Science
Papers from the publication records ScholarsColab tracks, with their year and citations. Author names are not shown.
- Transferring Technical Knowledge to Turkey: American Engineers, Scientific Experts, and the Erzincan Earthquake of 1939202115 citations
- Beyond chaos: fluctuations, anomalies and spontaneous stochasticity in fluid turbulence20250 citations
- Madeline S. Tiee, Ryan J. Harrigan 2, Henri20180 citations
05Reviewer comments
Reviewer comments and rejection reasons for Royal Society Open Science
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06Similar journals
Journals similar to Royal Society Open Science
Journals that publish the closest work to the papers above, from the indexing lists:
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07Journal Finder
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How it works: no AI or language model is used. Your words are matched against the titles of real published journal papers, by our mentors and by other researchers (shown without names); journals are ranked by how many closely matching papers they published. Indexing comes from the SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, ESCI, Scopus and JCR 2024 lists, matched by journal name; “not found in our indexing lists” does not prove a journal is unindexed. Always check a journal’s scope and current indexing before submitting.
08Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is the impact factor of Royal Society Open Science?
Based on OpenAlex citation data (October 2026), the 2-year impact factor of Royal Society Open Science is 4.10: papers it published in the two previous years were cited 4.10 times on average in a year. The journal is listed in JCR 2024, so Clarivate also publishes an official Journal Impact Factor, which can differ.
What is the h-index of Royal Society Open Science?
The h-index of Royal Society Open Science is 129 (OpenAlex, October 2026): 129 of its papers have each been cited at least 129 times. Its i10-index is 4,131.
What is the APC of Royal Society Open Science?
OpenAlex lists an article processing charge (APC) of about US$1,471 for Royal Society Open Science, an open access journal (data from October 2026). APCs change and can differ by article type, country or discounts, so confirm the current charge on the journal’s website before submitting.
Is Royal Society Open Science a Q1 journal?
By 2-year citedness, Royal Society Open Science ranks 34 of 155 journals in Multidisciplinary Sciences, which places it in Q1 of that Web of Science category. This ranking is calculated by ScholarsColab from OpenAlex data; the official JCR quartile can differ.
Is Royal Society Open Science indexed in Scopus?
Yes. Royal Society Open Science appears in the Scopus list, according to the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab (updated 1 March 2026). Always confirm the current status on the official list before submitting.
Is Royal Society Open Science an SCIE journal?
Yes. Royal Society Open Science is listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), according to the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab (updated 1 March 2026). Always confirm the current status on the official list before submitting.
Is Royal Society Open Science in Journal Citation Reports (JCR)?
Yes. Royal Society Open Science is listed in JCR 2024, so it has a Journal Impact Factor. For the current impact factor and quartile, check Journal Citation Reports.
What topics does Royal Society Open Science publish?
The papers published in Royal Society Open Science that we track most often mention transferring, technical, knowledge, turkey, american, engineers. Check the journal’s aims and scope for its full coverage.
How many papers published in Royal Society Open Science does ScholarsColab track?
We track 3 papers published in Royal Society Open Science between 2018 and 2025, cited 15 times in total, with a median of 0 citations per paper.
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