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Fractals is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific.
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Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geometry and Topology | 2 / 111 | 98th | Q1 |
| Applied Mathematics | 50 / 680 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 41 / 397 | 89th | Q1 |
| Engineering (all) | 50 / 351 | 85th | Q1 |
| Computer Science (all) | 50 / 241 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.2.
Fractals is Q1 in Geometry and Topology (rank 2 of 111), Q1 in Applied Mathematics (rank 50 of 680) and Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 41 of 397), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Fractals 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 7.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.600, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 78.
Fractals is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 0218-348X and its online ISSN is 1793-6543.
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.
Fractals has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 2.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 105 Scopus journals in Geometry and Topology.
Fractals published 371 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (26.9%), Saudi Arabia (13.7%) and India (8.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 5 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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