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Chaos Theory and Applications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), DOAJ. Published by Akif AKGUL.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics (miscellaneous) | 16 / 119 | 86th | Q1 |
| Multidisciplinary | 42 / 223 | 81st | Q1 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 97 / 300 | 67th | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 358 / 1030 | 65th | Q2 |
| Computer Science (miscellaneous) | 71 / 179 | 60th | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 173 / 342 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Chaos Theory and Applications is Q1 in Mathematics (miscellaneous) (rank 16 of 119), Q1 in Multidisciplinary (rank 42 of 223) and Q2 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 97 of 300), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Chaos Theory and Applications is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1, 86th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.495, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
Chaos Theory and Applications is published by Akif AKGUL. Its ISSN is 2687-4539.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Chaos Theory and Applications has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 3.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 108 Scopus journals in Mathematics (miscellaneous).
Chaos Theory and Applications published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 31. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (20.2%), India (19.8%) and Mexico (8.5%).
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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