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Applied Energy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 22.1), ABDC A, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0306-2619Verify ISSN ↗1872-9118Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,430 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 6 / 432 | 98th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 12 / 740 | 98th | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 5 / 258 | 98th | Q1 |
| Energy (all) | 4 / 79 | 95th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 20 / 345 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 22.1.
Applied Energy is Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 6 of 432), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 12 of 740) and Q1 in Building and Construction (rank 5 of 258), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Applied Energy 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 22.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.864, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 354.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,430 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.
Applied Energy is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0306-2619 and its online ISSN is 1872-9118.
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.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Applied Energy has an h-index of 389 and a 2-year mean of 15.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 22.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 404 Scopus journals in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.
Applied Energy published 1,870 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 2,460. 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 76 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (59.4%), United Kingdom (7.7%) and Hong Kong SAR China (5.3%). 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. 20 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 4 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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