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Fluid Dynamics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Pleiades Publishing.
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ISSN 0015-4628Verify ISSN ↗1573-8507Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes | 74 / 99 | 25th | Q3 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 185 / 248 | 25th | Q3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 554 / 740 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1966–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Fluid Dynamics is Q3 in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes (rank 74 of 99), Q3 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 185 of 248) and Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 554 of 740), by CiteScore 2025.
Fluid Dynamics 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.244, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 31.
Fluid Dynamics is published by Pleiades Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0015-4628 and its online ISSN is 1573-8507.
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.
Fluid Dynamics has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 0.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #59 of 90 Scopus journals in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes.
Fluid Dynamics published 210 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 271. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Russia (39.9%), China (27.8%) and India (14.2%).
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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