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Advances in Engineering Software is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0965-9978Verify ISSN ↗1873-5339Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,810 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 14 / 351 | 96th | Q1 |
| Software | 47 / 503 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present (also 1982–1983), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.6.
Advances in Engineering Software is Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 14 of 351) and Q1 in Software (rank 47 of 503), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Engineering Software 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 12.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.164, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 113.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,810 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.
Advances in Engineering Software is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0965-9978 and its online ISSN is 1873-5339.
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.
Advances in Engineering Software has an h-index of 119 and a 2-year mean of 6.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
Advances in Engineering Software published 160 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 232. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (57.5%), South Korea (9.9%) and United States (6.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 8 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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