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Circuit World is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 0305-6120Verify ISSN ↗1758-602XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 171 / 425 | 59th | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 430 / 1030 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Circuit World is Q2 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 171 of 425) and Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 430 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025.
Circuit World 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.210, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
Circuit World is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0305-6120 and its online ISSN is 1758-602X.
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.
Circuit World has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #262 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Circuit World published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 82. 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 China (50.8%), India (31.3%) and Iran (4.7%). 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. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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