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Experiments in Fluids is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 0723-4864Verify ISSN ↗1432-1114Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$2,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 74 / 248 | 70th | Q2 |
| Computational Mechanics | 31 / 99 | 69th | Q2 |
| Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes | 34 / 99 | 66th | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 158 / 408 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Experiments in Fluids is Q2 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 74 of 248), Q2 in Computational Mechanics (rank 31 of 99) and Q2 in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes (rank 34 of 99), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Experiments in Fluids 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.724, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 155.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,590 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.
Experiments in Fluids is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0723-4864 and its online ISSN is 1432-1114.
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.
Experiments in Fluids has an h-index of 170 and a 2-year mean of 2.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Experiments in Fluids published 221 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 272. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (16.5%), China (16.3%) and Germany (12%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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