Open Access
Open access

Royal Society Open Science

The Royal Society
The Royal Society
ISSN: 20545703
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
2.9
SJR
0.787
CiteScore
6.0
Categories
Multidisciplinary
Areas
Multidisciplinary
Years of issue
2014-2025
journal names
Royal Society Open Science
ROY SOC OPEN SCI
Publications
6 324
Citations
100 532
h-index
95
Publications
3 166
Citations
83 533
Top-3 citing journals
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports (2513 citations)
Royal Society Open Science
Royal Society Open Science (1799 citations)
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE (1508 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (194 publications)
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge (192 publications)
University College London
University College London (143 publications)
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge (110 publications)
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (97 publications)
University College London
University College London (91 publications)
Top-3 countries
United Kingdom (1640 publications)
USA (1480 publications)
China (1090 publications)
United Kingdom (868 publications)
USA (697 publications)
China (373 publications)

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Scientific Reports
2513 citations, 2.5%
Royal Society Open Science
1799 citations, 1.79%
PLoS ONE
1508 citations, 1.5%
Frontiers in Marine Science
746 citations, 0.74%
Ecology and Evolution
740 citations, 0.74%
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
687 citations, 0.68%
PeerJ
671 citations, 0.67%
Science of the Total Environment
635 citations, 0.63%
Frontiers in Psychology
480 citations, 0.48%
Animal Behaviour
477 citations, 0.47%
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
462 citations, 0.46%
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
434 citations, 0.43%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
429 citations, 0.43%
Journal of Experimental Biology
419 citations, 0.42%
Animals
383 citations, 0.38%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
357 citations, 0.36%
Marine Pollution Bulletin
352 citations, 0.35%
Nature Communications
341 citations, 0.34%
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
318 citations, 0.32%
RSC Advances
300 citations, 0.3%
Molecules
296 citations, 0.29%
Molecular Ecology
293 citations, 0.29%
Sustainability
290 citations, 0.29%
Marine Ecology - Progress Series
290 citations, 0.29%
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
280 citations, 0.28%
Current Biology
278 citations, 0.28%
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
263 citations, 0.26%
Biological Conservation
241 citations, 0.24%
Astronomy and Astrophysics
241 citations, 0.24%
Materials
234 citations, 0.23%
ACS Omega
232 citations, 0.23%
Astrophysical Journal
230 citations, 0.23%
Biological Reviews
227 citations, 0.23%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
226 citations, 0.22%
Anatomical Record
225 citations, 0.22%
Polymers
223 citations, 0.22%
eLife
222 citations, 0.22%
Physical Review E
217 citations, 0.22%
Biology Letters
215 citations, 0.21%
Nanomaterials
207 citations, 0.21%
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
205 citations, 0.2%
Behavioral Ecology
204 citations, 0.2%
IEEE Access
204 citations, 0.2%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
203 citations, 0.2%
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
201 citations, 0.2%
Frontiers in Microbiology
197 citations, 0.2%
Diversity
194 citations, 0.19%
Animal Cognition
193 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Anatomy
185 citations, 0.18%
Environmental Pollution
183 citations, 0.18%
Marine Mammal Science
180 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Molecular Liquids
177 citations, 0.18%
iScience
174 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Animal Ecology
173 citations, 0.17%
Sensors
172 citations, 0.17%
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
172 citations, 0.17%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
171 citations, 0.17%
Cretaceous Research
170 citations, 0.17%
Insects
167 citations, 0.17%
Global Change Biology
161 citations, 0.16%
Heliyon
160 citations, 0.16%
PLoS Computational Biology
160 citations, 0.16%
Chemosphere
159 citations, 0.16%
Science advances
158 citations, 0.16%
Environmental DNA
157 citations, 0.16%
Communications Biology
154 citations, 0.15%
SSRN Electronic Journal
154 citations, 0.15%
Integrative and Comparative Biology
149 citations, 0.15%
Global Ecology and Conservation
148 citations, 0.15%
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
144 citations, 0.14%
Coral Reefs
143 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
141 citations, 0.14%
Chemical Engineering Journal
141 citations, 0.14%
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
137 citations, 0.14%
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
135 citations, 0.13%
American Journal of Primatology
135 citations, 0.13%
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
135 citations, 0.13%
Historical Biology
134 citations, 0.13%
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
131 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Hazardous Materials
130 citations, 0.13%
Biology
130 citations, 0.13%
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
127 citations, 0.13%
Entropy
122 citations, 0.12%
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
121 citations, 0.12%
ACS applied materials & interfaces
120 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Fish Biology
120 citations, 0.12%
Marine Biology
120 citations, 0.12%
Ecological Indicators
120 citations, 0.12%
Frontiers in Plant Science
118 citations, 0.12%
ChemistrySelect
117 citations, 0.12%
ICES Journal of Marine Science
117 citations, 0.12%
Ceramics International
116 citations, 0.12%
Water (Switzerland)
116 citations, 0.12%
Ecosphere
115 citations, 0.11%
Behavioural Processes
115 citations, 0.11%
Nature
114 citations, 0.11%
Functional Ecology
114 citations, 0.11%
Behavior Research Methods
114 citations, 0.11%
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
113 citations, 0.11%
Energies
113 citations, 0.11%
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Elsevier
21242 citations, 21.13%
Springer Nature
16118 citations, 16.03%
Wiley
11208 citations, 11.15%
MDPI
7277 citations, 7.24%
Frontiers Media S.A.
3986 citations, 3.96%
The Royal Society
3673 citations, 3.65%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
3317 citations, 3.3%
Taylor & Francis
3261 citations, 3.24%
Oxford University Press
2872 citations, 2.86%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
1955 citations, 1.94%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
1878 citations, 1.87%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
1559 citations, 1.55%
Cambridge University Press
1484 citations, 1.48%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
1428 citations, 1.42%
SAGE
1266 citations, 1.26%
IOP Publishing
971 citations, 0.97%
PeerJ
703 citations, 0.7%
American Physical Society (APS)
512 citations, 0.51%
The Company of Biologists
505 citations, 0.5%
AIP Publishing
494 citations, 0.49%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
471 citations, 0.47%
Inter-Research Science Center
453 citations, 0.45%
Hindawi Limited
369 citations, 0.37%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
351 citations, 0.35%
EDP Sciences
327 citations, 0.33%
American Astronomical Society
293 citations, 0.29%
Walter de Gruyter
288 citations, 0.29%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
271 citations, 0.27%
eLife Sciences Publications
244 citations, 0.24%
Annual Reviews
217 citations, 0.22%
Pleiades Publishing
211 citations, 0.21%
Emerald
206 citations, 0.2%
Pensoft Publishers
203 citations, 0.2%
University of Chicago Press
198 citations, 0.2%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
193 citations, 0.19%
CSIRO Publishing
184 citations, 0.18%
JMIR Publications
171 citations, 0.17%
Canadian Science Publishing
170 citations, 0.17%
American Society for Microbiology
165 citations, 0.16%
World Scientific
156 citations, 0.16%
BMJ
151 citations, 0.15%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
149 citations, 0.15%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
144 citations, 0.14%
IGI Global
140 citations, 0.14%
F1000 Research
140 citations, 0.14%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
136 citations, 0.14%
Copernicus
130 citations, 0.13%
Research Square Platform LLC
122 citations, 0.12%
IntechOpen
110 citations, 0.11%
Magnolia Press
103 citations, 0.1%
Mary Ann Liebert
98 citations, 0.1%
ASME International
96 citations, 0.1%
SciELO
83 citations, 0.08%
The Electrochemical Society
79 citations, 0.08%
Optica Publishing Group
74 citations, 0.07%
IOS Press
68 citations, 0.07%
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
68 citations, 0.07%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
68 citations, 0.07%
American Geophysical Union
66 citations, 0.07%
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
64 citations, 0.06%
American Physiological Society
62 citations, 0.06%
King Saud University
53 citations, 0.05%
MIT Press
50 citations, 0.05%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
49 citations, 0.05%
Geological Society of London
48 citations, 0.05%
Brill
45 citations, 0.04%
Ubiquity Press
43 citations, 0.04%
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
41 citations, 0.04%
American Speech Language Hearing Association
41 citations, 0.04%
IWA Publishing
37 citations, 0.04%
Trans Tech Publications
36 citations, 0.04%
American Vacuum Society
36 citations, 0.04%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
36 citations, 0.04%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
34 citations, 0.03%
Society for Neuroscience
34 citations, 0.03%
Beilstein-Institut
34 citations, 0.03%
S. Karger AG
33 citations, 0.03%
Akademiai Kiado
33 citations, 0.03%
Entomological Society of America
32 citations, 0.03%
American Ornithologists' Union
32 citations, 0.03%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
31 citations, 0.03%
Portland Press
30 citations, 0.03%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
28 citations, 0.03%
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
27 citations, 0.03%
Scientific Societies
27 citations, 0.03%
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
26 citations, 0.03%
Spandidos Publications
26 citations, 0.03%
Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
26 citations, 0.03%
24 citations, 0.02%
Zoological Society of Japan
24 citations, 0.02%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
23 citations, 0.02%
Scientific Research Publishing
22 citations, 0.02%
21 citations, 0.02%
Association Paleontologica Argentina
21 citations, 0.02%