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Cleaner Energy Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2772-7831Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 70 / 345 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.7.
Cleaner Energy Systems is Q1 in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (rank 70 of 345), by CiteScore 2025.
Cleaner Energy Systems is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 10.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.257, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,270 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.
Cleaner Energy Systems is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2772-7831.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cleaner Energy Systems has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 6.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 304 Scopus journals in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.
Cleaner Energy Systems published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 64. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (8%), United States (7.5%) and Indonesia (5.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (7.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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