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Natural Sciences

Wiley-VCH Verlag · Germany · Est. 2020

ISSN2698-6248eISSN2698-6248

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

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.771

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.921

Total Worksi

207

Total Citationsi

1,049

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.07

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Natural Sciences is an interdisciplinary open access journal publishing top-tier research from biology, chemistry, physics and their interfaces, as well as seminal works from related fields such as engineering and biomedical research.

AI-compiled from public web sources · verify on publisher page →

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2020

FrequencyBimonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications207

Publisher OrgWiley

OA Since2020

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

PorticoCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Wiley-VCH Verlag

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2698-6248 / 2698-6248

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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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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

Portico, 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

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

2020

430

2021

421

2022

200

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.

MultidisciplinaryQ1

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Q1

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)Q2

Chemistry (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Multidisciplinary Sciences

Scopus Categories

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)MultidisciplinaryChemistry (miscellaneous)Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationEducational Robotics and EngineeringAdvanced Chemical Physics StudiesCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesQuantum Mechanics and ApplicationsQuantum, superfluid, helium dynamicsAtomic and Subatomic Physics ResearchHistory and Developments in AstronomyInvertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology

Frequently asked questions about Natural Sciences

Is Natural Sciences a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Natural Sciences: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Natural Sciences?

Natural Sciences 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 1.07.

Is Natural Sciences indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Natural Sciences is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.