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Royal Society Open Science

The Royal Society · United Kingdom · Est. 1947

ISSN2054-5703eISSN2054-5703

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

/ 100

High Trust

Score Breakdown

✓ WoS SCIE/SSCI+25

✓ Scopus Q1+25

✓ DOAJ Verified+15

Total75

Journal Impact Factor

This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗

SJR Score

0.795

H-Index

127

CiteScore

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Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIP

1.115

Total Works

7,263

Total Citations

158,205

2yr Mean Citedness

3.21

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Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope✦ Inferred from recent articles

Royal Society Open Science publishes research across diverse scientific disciplines. Recent articles explore the spatial modeling of disease vector populations, the philosophical and ethical considerations of participation in science, individual differences in cognitive abilities and attention, the impact of urbanization on animal behavior and signaling, economic theories of market competition and consumer behavior, cooperative hunting strategies in marine mammals, the use of citizen science and online data for ecological research, resource allocation trade-offs in animal physiology, the dynamics of collective animal movement, the relationship between interoception and psychological states, computational reproducibility in scientific research, the influence of evolutionary explanations on social attitudes, and the application of artificial intelligence to analyze large bodies of scholarly literature.

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⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

weeks to review

Average · median is 15 wks

SJR Rank

Top 25% in field

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1947

Annual Volume~ 641 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications7,263

Publisher OrgRoyal Society

OA Since2013

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

Review Time~14 weeks

Acceptance Rate—

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

LOCKSSPorticoPMCCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/12 · 83%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

The Royal Society

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2054-5703 / 2054-5703

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

LOCKSS, Portico, PMC, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

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

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Times cited

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

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

MultidisciplinaryQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Multidisciplinary Sciences

Scopus Categories

Multidisciplinary

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Animal Behavior and ReproductionPlant and animal studiesMarine animal studies overviewAnimal Vocal Communication and BehaviorWildlife Ecology and ConservationPrimate Behavior and EcologyEvolution and Paleontology StudiesInsect and Arachnid Ecology and BehaviorPaleontology and Evolutionary BiologyEvolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation