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Discover Chemical Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Discover.
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ISSN 2730-7700Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Discover
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | 83 / 241 | 65th | Q2 |
| Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) | 46 / 106 | 57th | Q2 |
| Process Chemistry and Technology | 42 / 84 | 50th | Q2 |
| Filtration and Separation | 13 / 21 | 40th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.
Discover Chemical Engineering is Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 83 of 241), Q2 in Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 46 of 106) and Q2 in Process Chemistry and Technology (rank 42 of 84), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Discover 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 5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.645, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,590 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.
Discover Chemical Engineering is published by Discover. Its ISSN is 2730-7700.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discover Chemical Engineering has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 4.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 220 Scopus journals in Environmental Engineering.
Discover Chemical Engineering published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 36. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (25%), China (6.8%) and Malaysia (6.3%).
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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