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Finite Elements in Analysis and Design is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0168-874XVerify ISSN ↗1872-6925Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analysis | 14 / 210 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Applied Mathematics | 95 / 680 | 86th | Q1 |
| Engineering (all) | 81 / 351 | 77th | Q1 |
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 37 / 131 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design is Q1 in Analysis (rank 14 of 210), Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 95 of 680) and Q1 in Engineering (all) (rank 81 of 351), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.761, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 99.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 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.
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0168-874X and its online ISSN is 1872-6925.
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.
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 2.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 193 Scopus journals in Analysis.
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design published 141 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 87 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (24.1%), France (10.7%) and United States (8.4%).
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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