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Energy Research Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), ABDC C. Published by Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association.
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ISSN 2652-6433Verify ISSN ↗2652-6514Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 61 / 289 | 79th | Q1 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 66 / 283 | 76th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 256 / 755 | 66th | Q2 |
| Finance | 122 / 342 | 64th | Q2 |
| Energy (all) | 37 / 79 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | 55 / 106 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Energy Research Letters is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 61 of 289), Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 66 of 283) and Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 256 of 755), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Energy Research Letters is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1, 79th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.368, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 21.
Energy Research Letters is published by Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association. Its print ISSN is 2652-6433 and its online ISSN is 2652-6514.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Energy Research Letters has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
Energy Research Letters published 71 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (28.6%), Türkiye (15.2%) and Nigeria (9.1%).
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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