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Combustion and Flame is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0010-2180Verify ISSN ↗1556-2921Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,320 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 21 / 248 | 91st | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 37 / 347 | 89th | Q1 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 31 / 270 | 88th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 50 / 402 | 87th | Q1 |
| Fuel Technology | 22 / 138 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1957–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.4.
Combustion and Flame is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 21 of 248), Q1 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 37 of 347) and Q1 in Chemical Engineering (all) (rank 31 of 270), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Combustion and Flame 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 11.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.899, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 235.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,320 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.
Combustion and Flame is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0010-2180 and its online ISSN is 1556-2921.
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.
Combustion and Flame has an h-index of 268 and a 2-year mean of 6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Combustion and Flame published 709 papers in 2025. 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 79 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (57.5%), South Korea (6.3%) and United States (6%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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