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IET Smart Grid is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 2515-2947Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 248 / 1030 | 75th | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 145 / 568 | 74th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 152 / 519 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
IET Smart Grid is Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 248 of 1030), Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 145 of 568) and Q2 in Information Systems (rank 152 of 519), by CiteScore 2025.
IET Smart Grid 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.758, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,460 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.
IET Smart Grid is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2515-2947.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IET Smart Grid has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 4.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #134 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
IET Smart Grid published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 85. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (46.5%), Iran (8.8%) and United States (6.1%).
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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