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ACS Energy Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 27.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Chemical Society.
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ISSN 2380-8195Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Cost to publish: About US$4,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 5 / 347 | 98th | Q1 |
| Fuel Technology | 3 / 138 | 98th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (miscellaneous) | 3 / 137 | 98th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 11 / 345 | 96th | Q1 |
| Materials Chemistry | 12 / 327 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 27.9.
ACS Energy Letters is Q1 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 5 of 347), Q1 in Fuel Technology (rank 3 of 138) and Q1 in Chemistry (miscellaneous) (rank 3 of 137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
ACS Energy Letters 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 27.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.783, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 252.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,500 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.
ACS Energy Letters is published by American Chemical Society. Its ISSN is 2380-8195.
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.
ACS Energy Letters has an h-index of 282 and a 2-year mean of 17.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 27.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
ACS Energy Letters published 756 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (40.8%), United States (23.9%) and South Korea (8.6%).
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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