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Accreditation and Quality Assurance is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 0949-1775Verify ISSN ↗1432-0517Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 151 / 282 | 46th | Q3 |
| Instrumentation | 123 / 206 | 40th | Q3 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 192 / 270 | 29th | Q3 |
| Chemistry (all) | 288 / 402 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Accreditation and Quality Assurance is Q3 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 151 of 282), Q3 in Instrumentation (rank 123 of 206) and Q3 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 192 of 270), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Accreditation and Quality Assurance is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.204, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 48.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Accreditation and Quality Assurance is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 0949-1775 and its online ISSN is 1432-0517.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Accreditation and Quality Assurance has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #118 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Accreditation and Quality Assurance published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 66. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 88 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (25%), China (16.1%) and Canada (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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