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Manuscript Auditing →01Impact factor
Impact factor of Scientific Data (2026)
The impact factor shown here is the 2-year mean citedness: citations received in a year by the papers Scientific Data 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 20 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$2,490.
02Indexing
Indexing of Scientific Data
- eISSN
- 2052-4463
- Publisher
- Nature Research
- 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 Scientific Data publishes: real papers
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04Published papers
Papers published in Scientific Data
Papers from the publication records ScholarsColab tracks, with their year and citations. Author names are not shown.
- Genome Sequence Data and Integrative RNa-Seq Data of Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens)(a Japanese Strain)20260 citations
- the african transport Systems Database-a geospatial database of multi-modal connected networks20260 citations
- Electrooculography Dataset for Objective Spatial Navigation assessment in Healthy Participants20250 citations
- Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the dune cricket Schizodactylus jimo20250 citations
- Chromosome-scale whole genome assembly and annotation of the Jamaican field cricket Gryllus assimilis20250 citations
- NONaN GaitPrint: an IMU gait database of healthy older adults20250 citations
- Genome assembly and annotation of the parasitoid jewel wasp Nasonia oneida20250 citations
- a chromosome-level genome assembly of Meteorus pulchricornis Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)20250 citations
- a Field-Level asset Mapping Dataset for England's agricultural Sector20250 citations
- Remote sensing for land cover mapping across Victoria, australia–a machine learning application20250 citations
- FaIR assessment of Disease Maps fosters open science and scientific crowdsourcing in systems biomedicine20250 citations
- Psilocybin's acute and persistent brain effects: a precision imaging drug trial20250 citations
- A dataset of hydrological effects induced by historical and modern earthquakes in Southern apennines (Italy)20250 citations
- NEBULA101: an open dataset for the study of language aptitude in behaviour, brain structure and function20250 citations
- Gridded Population Structure Datasets for the Indus River Basin under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 2020–210020250 citations
- A global 1 km resolution daily surface longwave radiation product from MODIS satellite data from20250 citations
- a bio-optical database for the remote sensing of water quality in BRaZil coastal and inland waters (BRaZa)20250 citations
- Ensemble downscaled climate dataset for alaska and Hawaii under historical and future conditions20250 citations
- One-week test-retest recordings of resting cardiorespiratory data for reliability analysis20250 citations
- Replicable Fine-Spatio-temporal Climate Data for Long-term Ecology in the Western Mediterranean20250 citations
- a benchmark database of ten years of prospective next-day earthquake forecasts in California from the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability20250 citations
- Physicochemical characteristics of lakes along the southern Baltic Sea coast20240 citations
- a chromosome-scale genome assembly of the nipa palm hispid beetle Octodonta nipae20240 citations
- Sea water temperature and light intensity at high-arctic subtidal shallows–16 years perspective20240 citations
- a comprehensive IDa and SWatH-DIa Lipidomics and Metabolomics dataset: SARS-CoV-2 case control study20240 citations
- DaTa DeSCRIPTOR20240 citations
- Dataset of soil hydraulic parameters in the Yellow River Basin based on in situdeep sampling20240 citations
- the chromosomal-scale genome sequencing and assembly of Athetis lepigone20240 citations
- an annotated wing interferential pattern dataset of dipteran insects of medical interest for deep learning20240 citations
- the miniature genome of broad mite, Polyphagotarsonemus latus (tarsonemidae: acari)20240 citations
- Points for energy renovation (PointER): a point cloud dataset of a million buildings linked to energy20230 citations
- a geopositioned and evidence-graded pan-species compendium of Mayaro virus occurrence20230 citations
- … , VP, Yfantidou, I, Chantziaras, D, Pantouvakis, K, Nikolopoulos, S, Laskaris, NA and Kompatsiaris, I NeuMa-the absolute Neuromarketing dataset en route to an …20230 citations
- Realization times of energetic modernization measures for buildings based on interviews with craftworkers20230 citations
- Surface albedo measurements and surface type classification from helicopter-based observations during MOSaiC20230 citations
- One high quality genome and two transcriptome datasets for new species of Mantamonas, a deep-branching eukaryote clade20230 citations
- Citizens' Perceptions of Research and Innovation Dilemmas: Insights from a Large-Scale Survey in Four European Regions20230 citations
- OPERAnet, a multimodal activity recognition dataset acquired from radio frequency and vision-based sensors20220 citations
- Updating global urbanization projections under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways20220 citations
- qMRI-BIDS: an extension to the brain imaging data structure for quantitative magnetic resonance imaging data20220 citations
- Movement-related artefacts (MR-aRt) dataset of matched motion-corrupted and clean structural MRI brain scans20220 citations
- a long-term dataset of lake surface water temperature over the tibetan Plateau derived from AVHRR 1981–20190 citations
- Profiling the effect of nafcillin on HA-MRSA D712 using bacteriological and physiological media20190 citations
05Reviewer comments
Reviewer comments and rejection reasons for Scientific Data
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06Similar journals
Journals similar to Scientific Data
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07Journal Finder
Find the right journal for your paper
Is Scientific Data right for your paper? Compare journals
Paste your title, keywords or abstract. We match it against 164,212 published journal papers, by ScholarsColab mentors and other researchers, and show where the closest work appeared, with each journal’s indexing (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, ESCI, Scopus, JCR 2024).
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 Scientific Data?
Based on OpenAlex citation data (October 2026), the 2-year impact factor of Scientific Data is 5.96: papers it published in the two previous years were cited 5.96 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 Scientific Data?
The h-index of Scientific Data is 214 (OpenAlex, October 2026): 214 of its papers have each been cited at least 214 times. Its i10-index is 3,742.
What is the APC of Scientific Data?
OpenAlex lists an article processing charge (APC) of about US$2,490 for Scientific Data, 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 Scientific Data a Q1 journal?
By 2-year citedness, Scientific Data ranks 20 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 Scientific Data indexed in Scopus?
Yes. Scientific Data 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 Scientific Data an SCIE journal?
Yes. Scientific Data 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 Scientific Data in Journal Citation Reports (JCR)?
Yes. Scientific Data 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 Scientific Data publish?
The papers published in Scientific Data that we track most often mention dataset, genome, data, assembly, database, brain. Check the journal’s aims and scope for its full coverage.
How many papers published in Scientific Data does ScholarsColab track?
We track 43 papers published in Scientific Data between 2019 and 2026, cited 0 times in total, with a median of 0 citations per paper.
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