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Notes and Records

Royal Society Publishing · United Kingdom

ISSN0035-9149eISSN1743-0178

SJR Q3✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS A&HCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · AHCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.166

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.958

Total Worksi

2,260

Total Citationsi

12,788

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.39

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: History & Philosophy Of Science; History and Philosophy of Science.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

FrequencyFour No. A Year, 2008-

StatusActive

Total Publications2,260

Publisher OrgRoyal Society

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Royal Society Publishing

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0035-9149 / 1743-0178

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

219

2019

179

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

History and Philosophy of ScienceQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

History & Philosophy Of Science

Scopus Categories

History and Philosophy of Science

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

History of Science and Natural HistoryHistory of Science and MedicineHistory and Developments in AstronomyHistorical Philosophy and ScienceHistorical and Literary Studies

Frequently asked questions about Notes and Records

Is Notes and Records a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Notes and Records: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Notes and Records?

Notes and Records is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.39.

Is Notes and Records indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Notes and Records is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Notes and Records?