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Flow Measurement and Instrumentation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), 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 0955-5986Verify ISSN ↗1873-6998Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,080 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentation | 49 / 206 | 76th | Q1 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 94 / 397 | 76th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 339 / 1030 | 67th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 390 / 1022 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Flow Measurement and Instrumentation is Q1 in Instrumentation (rank 49 of 206), Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 94 of 397) and Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 339 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Flow Measurement and Instrumentation 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.572, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 77.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,080 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.
Flow Measurement and Instrumentation is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0955-5986 and its online ISSN is 1873-6998.
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.
Flow Measurement and Instrumentation has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 2.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 146 Scopus journals in Instrumentation.
Flow Measurement and Instrumentation published 334 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (68.8%), India (7.3%) and South Korea (4.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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