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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 43.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Annual Reviews Inc..
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ISSN 0066-4189Verify ISSN ↗1545-4479Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Annual Reviews Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condensed Matter Physics | 4 / 446 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 1973–2011, 1970–1971), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 43.3.
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is Q1 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 4 of 446), by CiteScore 2025.
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 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 43.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.119, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 243.
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is published by Annual Reviews Inc. Its print ISSN is 0066-4189 and its online ISSN is 1545-4479.
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.
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics has an h-index of 322 and a 2-year mean of 15.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 43.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 425 Scopus journals in Condensed Matter Physics.
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 28. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (44.8%), United Kingdom (13%) and France (12.5%).
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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