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Drones is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2504-446XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 11 / 169 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 44 / 390 | 88th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 138 / 1022 | 86th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 74 / 519 | 85th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 98 / 570 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.
Drones is Q1 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 11 of 169), Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 44 of 390) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 138 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Drones 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 10, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.049, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,137 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.
Drones is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2504-446X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Drones has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 6.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 141 Scopus journals in Aerospace Engineering.
Drones published 886 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (64.8%), United States (4.6%) and South Korea (4.6%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 3 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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