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Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Tech Science Press.
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ISSN 2151-8629Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tech Science Press
Cost to publish: About US$275 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (all) | 160 / 351 | 54th | Q2 |
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 124 / 248 | 50th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 306 / 475 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer is Q2 in Engineering (all) (rank 160 of 351), Q2 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 124 of 248) and Q3 in Materials Science (all) (rank 306 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.350, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$275 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.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer is published by Tech Science Press. Its ISSN is 2151-8629.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 3.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #63 of 299 Scopus journals in Engineering (all).
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer published 95 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 95. 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 74 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (54.5%), Italy (5.4%) and Mexico (4.1%). 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. 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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