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Explosion and Shock Waves is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.4), DOAJ. Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1001-1455Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 132 / 248 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.4.
Explosion and Shock Waves is Q3 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 132 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Explosion and Shock Waves 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 2.4, quartile Q3, 46th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.329, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 36.
Explosion and Shock Waves is published by Science Press. Its ISSN is 1001-1455.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Explosion and Shock Waves has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #223 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Explosion and Shock Waves published 5 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 100. 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.
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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