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Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 52.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Now Publishers Inc.
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ISSN 1935-8237Verify ISSN ↗1935-8245Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software | 1 / 503 | 99th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 1 / 196 | 99th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 / 570 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 52.9.
Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning is Q1 in Software (rank 1 of 503), Q1 in Human-Computer Interaction (rank 1 of 196) and Q1 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 3 of 570), by CiteScore 2025.
Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 52.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.923, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning is published by Now Publishers Inc. Its print ISSN is 1935-8237 and its online ISSN is 1935-8245.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 16.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 52.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 371 Scopus journals in Software.
Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 6. 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 28 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (44.6%), United Kingdom (13.1%) and France (9.8%).
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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