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AIMS Energy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI. Published by AIMS Press.
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ISSN 2333-8326Verify ISSN ↗2333-8334Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AIMS Press
Cost to publish: About US$300 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 130 / 347 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Fuel Technology | 63 / 138 | 54th | Q2 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 176 / 345 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
AIMS Energy is Q2 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 130 of 347), Q2 in Fuel Technology (rank 63 of 138) and Q3 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 176 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
AIMS Energy is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.469, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$300 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.
AIMS Energy is published by AIMS Press. Its print ISSN is 2333-8326 and its online ISSN is 2333-8334.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
AIMS Energy has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 3.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #93 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
AIMS Energy published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 64. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (27.6%), India (7.5%) and Indonesia (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.8 per 1,000 papers). 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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