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Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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ISSN 2813-3412Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 41 / 85 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering is Q2 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 41 of 85), by CiteScore 2025.
Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.274, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,353 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 Nuclear Engineering is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2813-3412.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 2.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 77 Scopus journals in Nuclear Energy and Engineering.
Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 53. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.3%), Germany (11.3%) and United Kingdom (10.4%).
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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