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International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1939-2699Verify ISSN ↗1939-2702Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 198 / 740 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 66 / 244 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 105 / 347 | 69th | Q2 |
| Chemical Engineering (all) | 95 / 270 | 65th | Q2 |
| Fuel Technology | 51 / 138 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present (also 2003–2005, 1999), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.5.
International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 198 of 740), Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 66 of 244) and Q2 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 105 of 347), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.404, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1939-2699 and its online ISSN is 1939-2702.
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.
International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 2.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #285 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization published 228 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (63.7%), India (11.9%) and Türkiye (6.8%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 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.
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