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Energy Conversion and Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 22.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0196-8904Verify ISSN ↗1879-2227Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,600 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 2 / 85 | 98th | Q1 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 12 / 347 | 96th | Q1 |
| Fuel Technology | 7 / 138 | 95th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 21 / 345 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 22.1.
Energy Conversion and Management is Q1 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 2 of 85), Q1 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 12 of 347) and Q1 in Fuel Technology (rank 7 of 138), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Energy Conversion and Management 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 22.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.600, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 293.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,600 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.
Energy Conversion and Management is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0196-8904 and its online ISSN is 1879-2227.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Energy Conversion and Management has an h-index of 316 and a 2-year mean of 12.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 22.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 77 Scopus journals in Nuclear Energy and Engineering.
Energy Conversion and Management published 1,359 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,416. 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 84 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (41.3%), South Korea (7.1%) and Iran (4.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 17 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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