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Consulting-Specifying Engineer is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0). Published by Cahners Business Information.
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ISSN 0892-5046Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cahners Business Information
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 348 / 351 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present (also 1994–2001, 1987–1990), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer is Q4 in Engineering (all) (rank 348 of 351), by CiteScore 2025.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4, 0th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer is published by Cahners Business Information. Its ISSN is 0892-5046.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Consulting-Specifying Engineer has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #263 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
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.
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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