Journal profile
QScience Connect
ISSN 2223-506X · HBKU Press · Qatar
QScience Connect: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 10 weeks (community reports); 10 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
QScience Connect is published by HBKU Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Empathy and Medical Education, Translation Studies and Practices and Medicine, History, and Philosophy, together about 24.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Empathy and Medical EducationMedicine9.5%
- Translation Studies and PracticesArts and Humanities7.9%
- Medicine, History, and PhilosophyMedicine7.1%
- Library Science and InformationComputer Science6.3%
- Art Therapy and Mental HealthArts and Humanities5.5%
- Socioeconomic Development in MENASocial Sciences5.5%
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine4.7%
- Fractional Differential Equations SolutionsMathematics3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 15OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 29OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.3OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 239 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 | 7 | 60 |
| 2025 | 10 | 10 | 98 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 95 |
| 2023 | 7 | 7 | 178 |
| 2022 | 55 | 55 | 99 |
| 2021 | 13 | 13 | 101 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 10 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 10 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 995 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 995 | Yes | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- HBKU Press
- Country or region
- Qatar
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2223-506X
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about QScience Connect
How long does peer review take at QScience Connect?
Authors report an average review time of about 10 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index QScience Connect?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, QScience Connect is indexed in DOAJ.
Is QScience Connect open access, and what is the APC?
QScience Connect is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .