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Cogent Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Cogent OA.
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ISSN 2331-1916Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cogent OA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 54 / 351 | 84th | Q1 |
| Computer Science (all) | 53 / 241 | 78th | Q1 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 71 / 270 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.9.
Cogent Engineering is Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 54 of 351), Q1 in Computer Science (all) (rank 53 of 241) and Q2 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 71 of 270), by CiteScore 2025.
Cogent Engineering 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 6.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.541, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,165 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.
Cogent Engineering is published by Cogent OA. Its ISSN is 2331-1916.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cogent Engineering has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 5.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
Cogent Engineering published 104 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 356. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (26.9%), China (7.6%) and Czechia (4.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 10 retracted papers are recorded (4.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 6 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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