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Applied Thermal Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.9), 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 1359-4311Verify ISSN ↗1873-5606Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,660 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes | 8 / 99 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 58 / 740 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 48 / 425 | 88th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 46 / 347 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.9.
Applied Thermal Engineering is Q1 in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes (rank 8 of 99), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 58 of 740) and Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 48 of 425), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Applied Thermal Engineering 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 10.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.556, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 238.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,660 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 Thermal Engineering is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1359-4311 and its online ISSN is 1873-5606.
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.
Applied Thermal Engineering has an h-index of 251 and a 2-year mean of 7.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 90 Scopus journals in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes.
Applied Thermal Engineering published 3,889 papers in 2025. 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 61 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (65.8%), India (6.6%) and Türkiye (3.3%). 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. 37 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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