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Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry

Connect Journals · India · Est. 1996

ISSN2456-4311

SJR Q4✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

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

SJR Scorei

0.131

H-Indexi

CiteScorei

0.5

SNIPi

0.147

Total Worksi

308

Total Citationsi

475

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.18

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry is peer reviewed and exclusively devoted to research in the area of heterocyclic chemistry. The journal publishes invited review articles and original research papers pertaining to structure and synthesis, mechanism of reactions, spectral studies, biologically active compounds, bio-chemical studies, physicochemical work, phytochemistry etc.

General Information

Country / RegionIndia

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1996

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications308

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Submission Info

Peer Reviewdouble-blind

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2456-4311

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

double-blind

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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?

Yes

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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

2016

2017

2018

2019

170

2023

2024

104

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.

BiochemistryQ4

Organic ChemistryQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Chemistry, Organic

Scopus Categories

BiochemistryOrganic Chemistry

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Synthesis and biological activitySynthesis and Characterization of Heterocyclic CompoundsMulticomponent Synthesis of HeterocyclesSynthesis and Reactions of Organic CompoundsSynthesis and Biological EvaluationClick Chemistry and ApplicationsSynthesis of Tetrazole DerivativesMetal complexes synthesis and propertiesInorganic and Organometallic ChemistryComputational Drug Discovery Methods

Frequently asked questions about Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry

Is Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry: 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 Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry?

Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 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. As an open alternative, its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5.

Is Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.