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Fusion Engineering and Design is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0920-3796Verify ISSN ↗1873-7196Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,810 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Energy and Engineering | 32 / 85 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 351 / 740 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 209 / 434 | 51st | Q2 |
| Materials Science (all) | 279 / 475 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present (also 1985), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Fusion Engineering and Design is Q2 in Nuclear Energy and Engineering (rank 32 of 85), Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 351 of 740) and Q2 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 209 of 434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Fusion Engineering and Design 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.626, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 101.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,810 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.
Fusion Engineering and Design is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0920-3796 and its online ISSN is 1873-7196.
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.
Fusion Engineering and Design has an h-index of 109 and a 2-year mean of 2.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 77 Scopus journals in Nuclear Energy and Engineering.
Fusion Engineering and Design published 719 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 895. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (25%), United States (17.1%) and Italy (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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