About the Journal

The Journal of King Saud University – Science (JKSUS) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Earth Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences. The journal is owned by the King Saud University and published by the Scientific Scholar.

Aims & Scope

The Journal of King Saud University – Science is a recognized peer-reviewed journal officially published by King Saud University, with publishing services managed by Scientific Scholar publishing house. It features scholarly articles in diverse fields such as Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Earth Sciences, and Life and Environmental Sciences, prioritizing scientific innovation and cross-disciplinary significance. The journal predominantly publishes research articles but also includes brief communications, reviews, and book reviews. The editorial board and associate editors, comprised of esteemed scientists globally, reflect the various fields represented in the journal.

Audience

Our audience includes researchers from the field of Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Earth Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences.

Review Process

JKSUS has a highly rigorous peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts, affiliations and financial associations such that the published content is not biased.

Editorial Team

The editorial board comprises a panel of experts from various disciplines of medical and allied sciences to provide their expertise and guidance in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the purpose for the journal.

About the Editor

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Abdullah M. Al-Enizi
Department of Chemistry,
College of Science, King Saud University,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Email: editor@jksus.org; amenizi@ksu.edu.sa

Facts About the Journal

It is a peer-reviewed international journal with a double-blind review process. Its frequency of publication is Monthly, what that means is, it publishes the article once it’s accepted after peer review.

Benefits

An article published in the journal can be viewed without a fee by readers all over the world. The author also gets to retain copyright to the article and the figures. This allows authors to extend their exposure in the world of medical research and get worldwide recognition for their work.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

The journal is indexed with or included in the following:
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), SNIP, SCOPUS

Impact Factor® as reported in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics 2024): 3.7
Scopus CiteScore 2023 (as per SJR 2024): 7.2

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Google Scholar, CrossRef, ReadCube, Portico

Journal Ethics

The Journal of King Saud University – Science is committed to meeting and upholding the standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines section

Plagiarism Policy

The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.

Archival Policy

We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our articles are assigned a DOI number. We are members of https://crossref.org

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

Journal of King Saud University – Science is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Ahead of Print Policy

Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. Journal of King Saud University – Science has a policy that changes will not be made after the publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

Subscription Information

To subscribe to this journal, please log on to https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions.

Publisher

Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.

The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.