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Cleaner Engineering and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 17 / 300 | 94th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 19 / 241 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.3.
Cleaner Engineering and Technology is Q1 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 17 of 300) and Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 19 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Cleaner Engineering and Technology 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 14.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.381, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 59.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,220 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 Engineering and Technology is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2666-7908.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cleaner Engineering and Technology has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 6.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 268 Scopus journals in Engineering (miscellaneous).
Cleaner Engineering and Technology published 259 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 336. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Thailand (10.6%), United States (8.3%) and Iran (8.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (5.4 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.
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