2017 CiteScore™ metrics update available
3 December 2018
Another update for 2017 CiteScore™ data has been released, based on citation data in the Scopus® database as of November 2018. The current CiteScores reflect citation activity in 2017 for articles published in 2014‒2016. Please note that the list below includes journals assigned a CiteScore in this year’s release. For a full list of journals indexed in Scopus, please see our journal list.
CiteScore Data for MDPI Journals (November 2018 Update)
| Journal | Rank (Quartile) |
Category | Link | 2017 CiteScore (3/12/2018) |
2017 SNIP |
| Aerospace | 43/116 (Q2) | • Aerospace Engineering | Link | 1.23 | 1.152 |
| Agriculture | 101/309 (Q2) 91/389 (Q2) 78/255 (Q2) |
• Agronomy and Crop Science • Plant Science • Food Science |
Link | 1.93 | 1.133 |
| Agronomy | 46/309 (Q1) | • Agronomy and Crop Science | Link | 2.38 | 1.115 |
| Algorithms | 23/47 (Q2) 64/128 (Q2) 60/107 (Q3) 64/114 (Q3) |
• Numerical Analysis • Computational Mathematics • Computational Theory and Mathematics • Theoretical Computer Science |
Link | 1.03 | 0.749 |
| Animals | 12/154 (Q1) 48/368 (Q1) |
• General Veterinary • Animal Science and Zoology |
Link | 2.05 | 1.099 |
| Antibiotics | 6/68 (Q1) 61/266 (Q1) 54/230 (Q2) 32/109 (Q2) 46/135 (Q2) 143/402 (Q2) |
• General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics • Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology (medical) • Microbiology (medical) • Microbiology • Biochemistry |
Link | 2.88 | 0.975 |
| Antioxidants | 21/118 (Q1) 33/169 (Q1) 92/402 (Q1) 110/366 (Q2) 93/265 (Q2) |
• Clinical Biochemistry • Physiology • Biochemistry • Molecular Biology • Cell Biology |
Link | 3.56 | 1.361 |
| Applied Sciences | 46/270 (Q1) 14/66 (Q1) 29/116 (Q2) 18/53 (Q2) 145/438 (Q2) 178/535 (Q2) |
• General Engineering • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes • Instrumentation • Process Chemistry and Technology • General Materials Science • Computer Science Applications |
Link | 1.98 | 0.801 |
| Biology | 12/177 (Q1) 31/187 (Q2) 8/39 (Q1) |
• General Agricultural and Biological Sciences • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology • General Immunology and Microbiology |
Link | 3.56 | 0.961 |
| Biomolecules | 29/402 (Q1) 40/366 (Q2) |
• Biochemistry • Molecular Biology |
Link | 5.83 | 1.542 |
| Biosensors | 19/118 (Q2) | • Clinical Biochemistry | Link | 3.66 | 1.122 |
| Brain Sciences | 46/111 (Q2) | • General Neuroscience | Link | 2.57 | 0.695 |
| Cancers | 24/325 (Q1) 21/191 (Q1) |
• Oncology • Cancer Research |
Link | 5.87 | 1.567 |
| Catalysts | 33/153 (Q2) 21/47 (Q2) |
• Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Catalysis |
Link | 3.28 | 0.954 |
| Crystals | 76/272 (Q2) 141/438 (Q2) 124/393 (Q2) 27/65 (Q2) |
• General Chemical Engineering • General Materials Science • Condensed Matter Physics • Inorganic Chemistry |
Link | 2.00 | 0.745 |
| Diversity | 30/124 (Q1) 14/52 (Q2) 83/306 (Q2) 13/29 (Q2) |
• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) • Ecology • Ecological Modelling |
Link | 2.18 | 1.300 |
| Electronics | 107/644 (Q1) 26/148 (Q1) 41/224 (Q1) 50/259 (Q1) 22/96 (Q1) |
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Hardware and Architecture • Control and Systems Engineering • Computer Networks and Communications • Signal Processing |
Link | 3.01 | 1.227 |
| Energies | 6/73 (Q1) 31/192 (Q1) 103/644 (Q1) 4/16 (Q2) 46/140 (Q2) |
• Control and Optimization • Energy Engineering and Power Technology • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Energy (miscellaneous) • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment |
Link | 3.15 | 1.340 |
| Entropy | 35/202 (Q1) | • General Physics and Astronomy | Link | 2.44 | 1.189 |
| Forests | 17/129 (Q1) | • Forestry | Link | 2.31 | 0.990 |
| Future Internet | 132/259 (Q3) | • Computer Networks and Communications | Link | 1.25 | - |
| Games | 132/187 (Q3) 79/111 (Q3) 310/423 (Q4) |
• Statistics and Probability • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty • Applied Mathematics |
Link | 0.61 | 1.038 |
| Genes | 21/89 (Q1) 71/310 (Q1) |
• Genetics (clinical) • Genetics |
Link | 3.55 | 0.374 |
| Geosciences | 32/182 (Q1) |
• General Earth and Planetary Sciences | Link | 1.97 | 0.856 |
| Information | 142/251 (Q3) | • Information Systems | Link | 1.17 | 1.146 |
| Insects | 25/136 (Q1) | • Insect Science | Link | 1.90 | 0.719 |
| International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) | 77/478 (Q1) 35/107 (Q2) |
• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis |
Link | 2.44 | 0.931 |
| International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) | 8/70 (Q1) * 59/535 (Q1) 21/169 (Q1) 10/65 (Q1) 28/153 (Q2) 90/366 (Q2) 18/47 (Q2) |
• Spectroscopy • Computer Science Applications • Organic Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Molecular Biology • Catalysis |
Link | 3.90 | 0.998 |
| ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) | 79/605 (Q1) 22/82 (Q2) 13/36 (Q2) |
• Geography, Planning and Development • Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) • Computers in Earth Sciences |
Link | 2.10 | 1.062 |
| Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA) | 291/644 (Q2) | • Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Link | 1.18 | 0.367 |
| Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM) | 54/189 (Q2) | • Medicine (miscellaneous) | Link | 2.62 | 0.944 |
| Land | 50/124 (Q2) 127/306 (Q2) 36/65 (Q3) |
• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Ecology • Global and Planetary Change |
Link | 1.45 | 0.658 |
| Life | 3/94 (Q1) 65/562 (Q1) 37/187 (Q1) 18/85 (Q1) |
• Palaeontology • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology • Space and Planetary Science |
Link | 3.24 | 0.935 |
| Marine Drugs | 17/150 (Q1) | • Drug Discovery | Link | 4.62 | 1.537 |
| Materials | 87/438 (Q1) | • General Materials Science | Link | 3.02 | 1.285 |
| Medicina | 115/841 (Q1) | • General Medicine | Link | 1.27 | 0.462 |
| Membranes | 5/18 (Q2) 15/53 (Q2) 4/10 (Q2) |
• Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) • Process Chemistry and Technology • Filtration and Separation |
Link | 2.69 | 0.880 |
| Metabolites | 43/209 (Q2) 104/402 (Q2) 122/366 (Q2) |
• Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism • Biochemistry • Molecular Biology |
Link | 3.41 | 0.925 |
| Metals | 154/438 (Q2) | • General Materials Science | Link | 1.78 | 0.955 |
| Micromachines | 106/556 (Q1) 151/644 (Q1) 63/224 (Q2) |
• Mechanical Engineering • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Control and Systems Engineering |
Link | 2.34 | 0.987 |
| Minerals | 33/176 (Q1) 46/209 (Q1) |
• Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology • Geology |
Link | 2.23 | 1.149 |
| Molecules | 4/25 (Q1) 26/174 (Q1) 19/105 (Q1) 33/169 (Q1) 32/153 (Q1) 31/150 (Q2) 55/161 (Q2) |
• Chemistry (miscellaneous) • Pharmaceutical Science • Analytical Chemistry • Organic Chemistry • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Drug Discovery • Molecular Medicine |
Link | 3.29 | 1.146 |
| Nutrients | 11/255 (Q1) 9/112 (Q1) |
• Food Science • Nutrition and Dietetics |
Link | 4.41 | 1.403 |
| Pathogens | 40/266 (Q1) 21/109 (Q1) 9/39 (Q1) 45/171 (Q1) 112/366 (Q2) |
• Infectious Diseases • Microbiology (medical) • General Immunology and Microbiology • Immunology and Allergy • Molecular Biology |
Link | 3.52 | 1.166 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 15/174 (Q1) 31/161 (Q1) |
• Pharmaceutical Science • Molecular Medicine |
Link | 4.20 | 1.370 |
| Pharmaceutics | 21/174 (Q1) | • Pharmaceutical Science | Link | 3.70 | 1.092 |
| Photonics | 30/116 (Q1) 80/270 (Q2) 53/160 (Q2) |
• Instrumentation • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and Imaging • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics |
Link | 1.96 | 0.817 |
| Plants | 94/562 (Q1) 61/389 (Q1) 55/306 (Q1) |
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • Plant Science • Ecology |
Link | 2.65 | 0.969 |
| Polymers | 15/142 (Q1) 63/359 (Q1) |
• Polymers and Plastics • General Chemistry |
Link | 3.30 | 1.213 |
| Religions | 24/389 (Q1) | • Religious Studies | Link | 0.57 | 0.676 |
| Remote Sensing | 15/182 (Q1) | • General Earth and Planetary Sciences | Link | 3.68 | 1.559 |
| Resources | 25/124 (Q1) 50/261 (Q1) |
• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law |
Link | 2.45 | 1.387 |
| Scientia Pharmaceutica | 94/174 (Q3) | • Pharmaceutical Science | Link | 0.86 | 0.513 |
| Sensors | 9/116 (Q1) 25/160 (Q1) 100/644 (Q1) 19/105 (Q1) 112/402 (Q2) |
• Instrumentation • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Analytical Chemistry • Biochemistry |
Link | 3.23 | 1.550 |
| Social Sciences | 81/213 (Q2) | • General Social Sciences | Link | 0.60 | 0.445 |
| Sustainability | 61/605 (Q1) 55/261 (Q1) 59/140 (Q2) |
• Geography, Planning and Development • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment |
Link | 2.37 | 1.030 |
| Symmetry | 44/327 (Q1) 17/45 (Q2) 16/40 (Q2) 13/25 (Q3) |
• General Mathematics • Computer Science (miscellaneous) • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) • Chemistry (miscellaneous) |
Link | 1.33 | 0.802 |
| Toxins | 19/107 (Q1) 17/111 (Q1) |
• Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis • Toxicology |
Link | 3.40 | 1.136 |
| Vaccines | 5/230 (Q1) 14/266 (Q1) 421805 (Q1) 11/150 (Q1) 32/194 (Q1) |
• Pharmacology (medical) • Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology • Drug Discovery • Immunology |
Link | 4.94 | 1.255 |
| Viruses | 16/68 (Q1) 31/266 (Q1) |
• Virology • Infectious Diseases |
Link | 3.92 | 1.130 |
| Water | 63/605 (Q1) 36/191 (Q1) 41/199 (Q1) 195/402 (Q2) |
• Geography, Planning and Development • Water Science and Technology • Aquatic Science • Biochemistry |
Link | 2.32 | 1.007 |