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Applied Ergonomics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.7), ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0003-6870Verify ISSN ↗1872-9126Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 12 / 257 | 95th | Q1 |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 24 / 282 | 91st | Q1 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 36 / 300 | 88th | Q1 |
| Human Factors and Ergonomics | 8 / 48 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.7.
Applied Ergonomics is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 12 of 257), Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 24 of 282) and Q1 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 36 of 300), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Applied Ergonomics is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 8.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.018, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 142.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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 Ergonomics is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0003-6870 and its online ISSN is 1872-9126.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (Work and Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behaviour) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Applied Ergonomics has an h-index of 184 and a 2-year mean of 4.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Applied Ergonomics published 205 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 396. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (37.5%), Australia (7.5%) and China (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.1 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.
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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