Royal Society Open Science Impact factor 2025

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The latest impact factor of Royal Society Open Science and all the other Web of Science journals was released on 20th June 2025 by Clarivate. Through this web page, researchers can check the impact factor, total citation, journal quartile, and journal aim & scope.

Royal Society Open Science: Aim & Scope

Royal Society Open Science is a Web of Science indexed journal tha publishes research in the area: Multidisciplinary Sciences.
The ISSN of this journal is 2054-5703.

Impact factor of Royal Society Open Science

Journal Title	Royal Society Open Science
Impact Factor	2.9
SJR	0.841
ISSN	2054-5703
Quartile	Q1

Impact Factor from year 2018-2024

Year	Impact Factor
2018	2.504
2019	2.515
2020	2.647
2021	2.963
2022
2023	3.5
2025	2.9

The Journal Impact Factor is defined as citations to the journal in the JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of scholarly items, also known as citable items, (these comprise articles and reviews) published in the journal in the previous two years.

Impact factor data has a strong influence on the scientific community, affecting decisions on where to publish, whom to promote or hire, the success of grant applications, and even salary bonuses.

Only journals listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) receive an Impact Factor.

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Royal Society Open Science

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Journal Impact: 2.9
Journal Scope: Multidisciplinary Sciences

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Journal Impact: 0.9
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Journal Impact: 0.4
Journal Scope: History & Philosophy Of Science

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Journal Impact:
Journal Scope: Statistics and Probability (Q1); Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (Q1)

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ISSN: 1477-870X
Journal Impact: 3
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

ISSN: 1471-2970
Journal Impact:
Journal Scope: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (Q1); Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (Q1)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

ISSN: 1471-2954
Journal Impact:
Journal Scope: Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (Q1); Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (Q1); Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (Q1); Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) (Q1); Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q1)

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

ISSN: 1365-2966
Journal Impact: 4.7
Journal Scope: Astronomy & Astrophysics

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