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EPJ Photovoltaics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by EDP Sciences.
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ISSN 2105-0716Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: EDP Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 425 / 1030 | 58th | Q2 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 228 / 446 | 48th | Q3 |
| Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials | 167 / 318 | 47th | Q3 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 192 / 345 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
EPJ Photovoltaics is Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 425 of 1030), Q3 in Condensed Matter Physics (rank 228 of 446) and Q3 in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (rank 167 of 318), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
EPJ Photovoltaics 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.490, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$565 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.
EPJ Photovoltaics is published by EDP Sciences. Its ISSN is 2105-0716.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
EPJ Photovoltaics has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 4.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
EPJ Photovoltaics published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 44. 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 91 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (27.4%), France (21.7%) and Italy (8.9%).
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.
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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