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Ad Hoc Networks is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1570-8705Verify ISSN ↗1570-8713Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,040 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Networks and Communications | 68 / 568 | 88th | Q1 |
| Hardware and Architecture | 33 / 245 | 86th | Q1 |
| Software | 72 / 503 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.9.
Ad Hoc Networks is Q1 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 68 of 568), Q1 in Hardware and Architecture (rank 33 of 245) and Q1 in Software (rank 72 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Ad Hoc Networks 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 9.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.174, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 122.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,040 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.
Ad Hoc Networks is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1570-8705 and its online ISSN is 1570-8713.
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.
Ad Hoc Networks has an h-index of 135 and a 2-year mean of 6.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 394 Scopus journals in Computer Networks and Communications.
Ad Hoc Networks published 298 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 83 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35.2%), India (13.3%) and Vietnam (5.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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