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Digital Chemical Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2772-5081Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 34 / 300 | 88th | Q1 |
| Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) | 24 / 106 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.9.
Digital Chemical Engineering is Q1 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 34 of 300) and Q1 in Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 24 of 106), by CiteScore 2025.
Digital Chemical 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 8.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.758, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,650 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.
Digital Chemical Engineering is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2772-5081.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Digital Chemical Engineering has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 4.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 268 Scopus journals in Engineering (miscellaneous).
Digital Chemical Engineering published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 75. 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 90 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.2%), Germany (12.8%) and United Kingdom (10.8%).
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.
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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