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Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 0010-5082Verify ISSN ↗1573-8345Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 235 / 347 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Fuel Technology | 99 / 138 | 28th | Q3 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 184 / 248 | 26th | Q3 |
| Chemistry (all) | 316 / 402 | 21st | Q4 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 213 / 270 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves is Q3 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 235 of 347), Q3 in Fuel Technology (rank 99 of 138) and Q3 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 184 of 248), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.260, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 54.
Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0010-5082 and its online ISSN is 1573-8345.
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, Explosion and Shock Waves has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #195 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves published 94 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 94. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (78.6%), China (14.3%) and India (2.6%). 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. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
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