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Drone Systems and Applications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Canadian Science Publishing.
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ISSN 2564-4939Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 31 / 198 | 84th | Q1 |
| Automotive Engineering | 38 / 143 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Aerospace Engineering | 47 / 169 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 342 / 1030 | 66th | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 133 / 390 | 66th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 394 / 1022 | 61st | Q2 |
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 4.7.
Drone Systems and Applications is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 31 of 198), Q2 in Automotive Engineering (rank 38 of 143) and Q2 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 47 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Drone Systems and Applications 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.519, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Drone Systems and Applications is published by Canadian Science Publishing. Its ISSN is 2564-4939.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Drone Systems and Applications has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 6.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Drone Systems and Applications published 26 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 97 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Canada (24.2%), United States (19.8%) and United Kingdom (6%).
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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